Summer School in Language Documentation and Description -- Participant Support

该提案将支付4名研究生和1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档和描述国际暑期学校的参与者费用。LDD课程是一门特殊的暑期课程，学习语言描述的概念和实践。虽然语言学的这一分支领域传统上关注的是语法、词典和语言文档的编写，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的机会将带来直接和更广泛的好处。学生将受益于他们所接受的训练，他们未来的研究必然会得到提高。此外，美国学生参加LDD是在不断发展的语言描述和文档领域建立跨大西洋智力和实际合作的非常有用的方式。

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.