Workshop and Mini-course on Formal Approaches To Celtic Linguistics; Tucson AZ, March 1-8, 2009

现代凯尔特语（爱尔兰语、苏格兰盖尔语、马恩岛语、威尔士语、布雷东语、康沃尔语）是2000多万美国人文化遗产的一部分。这些语言现在很少使用，无论是在美国还是在他们的祖国。所有这些语言都有灭绝的危险。当一种语言消失的时候，它的大部分文化也会消失。保护濒危语言的一个步骤是提供对其语法的完整描述。凯尔特语言有许多语法特性，使它们有别于其他欧洲语言，因此对这些语言的语言分析可能是对基于法语，西班牙语和英语等更好研究的语言的正式语法理论的挑战。安德鲁卡尼，沿着与其他三个国际公认的专家在凯尔特语言学，将导致为期一周的迷你课程到正式的方法来描述这些语言的句子结构，声音结构和单词结构。这门迷你课程将成为培训下一代凯尔特语言学家的起点。讲座，研讨会和实习课程不仅会教学生这些语言的语法工作的基础知识，但会教他们有关道德，文件和数据保存，以及提供文化背景的研究。小型课程的最后将举办一个讲习班，汇集专家，报告这些领域的最新进展。该研讨会旨在鼓励从事这些领域工作的学者进行合作，交流思想，并激励从事这些语言工作的年轻语言学家。

Modern Celtic languages (Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Breton, Cornish) are part of the cultural heritage of more than 20 million Americans. These languages are now rarely spoken, either here in the U.S. or in their home countries. All of these languages are in danger of extinction. When a language is lost, so too is much of the culture. One step towards preserving endangered languages is providing a complete description of their grammars. The Celtic languages have many grammatical properties which make them distinct from other European languages, so the linguistic analysis of these languages can be a challenge to formal theories of grammar which are based on better-studied languages such as French, Spanish and English. Prof. Andrew Carnie, along with three other internationally recognized experts in Celtic linguistics, will be leading a week-long mini course into formal approaches to the description of the sentence structure, sound structure and word structure of these languages. This mini-course will be a starting point for training the next generation of linguists working on Celtic languages. The lectures, seminars and practicum sessions will not only teach students the fundamentals of working on the grammars of these languages, but will teach them about ethics, documentation and preservation of data, as well as providing cultural context to the research. The mini-course will culminate in a workshop bringing together experts who will report on the latest advances in these same areas. The workshop is designed to encourage scholars working on these areas to collaborate, exchange ideas, and inspire young linguists working on these languages.