Summer School in Language Documentation and Description -- Participant Support

该提案将包括四名研究生和一名博士后研究员参加2008年6月23日至7月4日在法国里昂举行的语言文献和描述国际暑期学校的费用。LDD计划是一个特殊的暑期课程，涉及语言描述的概念和实践。 虽然语言学的这一子领域传统上关注语法和词典以及语言文献的准备，但它越来越关注原始语言数据的汇编和保存以及原始数据与基于这些数据的各种分析之间的相互关系。参加LDD的机会将有直接和更广泛的好处。学生将从他们接受的培训中受益，他们未来的研究将不可避免地得到改善。此外，美国学生参加LDD是在不断发展的语言描述和文献领域建立跨大西洋智力和实践合作的一种非常有用的方式。

This proposal will cover participant costs for four graduate students and one postdoctoral researcher to attend the International Summer School in Language Documentation and Description in Lyon, France, June 23-July 4, 2008. The LDD program is a special summer course in concepts and practices of language description. Although this subfield of linguistics is traditionally concerned with the preparation of grammars and dictionaries and language documentation, it has increasingly become concerned with the compilation and preservation of primary linguistic data and the inter-relationships between primary data and the various types of analyses based on these data. The opportunity to attend LDD will have both immediate and broader benefits. The students will benefit from the training they receive, and their future research will inevitably be improved. Moreover, the attendance of U.S. students at LDD is a very useful way to build trans-Atlantic intellectual and practical cooperation in the growing field of language description and documentation.