Collaborative Research: CoLang 2020: Institute for Collaborative Language Research, Montana

合作和社区为基础的研究模式已越来越多的语言文献和振兴领域的兴趣。自2008年成立以来，协作语言研究所（CoLang）一直是研究人员和社区语言工作者接受协作语言研究强化培训的两年一度的场所，以应对全球面临语言濒危危机时对高质量语言文献的全球需求。2020年，CoLang将在蒙大拿大学（UM）举行，由UM和首席钝刀学院（CDKC -蒙大拿州北方夏延的两年制部落学院）共同主办。它将把利益相关者聚集在一起，发展合作实践，并扩大所有参与者之间的网络，包括语言工作者，语言活动家，语言教师，本科生和研究生，以及来自学术和语言社区的语言学家。通过相互合作，CoLang 2020共同主办方（UM和CDKC）将在组织层面展示土著/非土著合作，并鼓励美国和加拿大土著社区的参与。该研究所通过其在开发和分享科学，道德和可持续方法方面的尖端实践中的作用，不断推进语言学知识，以了解世界上约7，000种语言的语言结构，并了解语言在社区一级发挥的复杂和重要作用。项目活动的更广泛影响包括培训广大受众掌握以社区为中心的语言文献编制技能，通过语言科学支持和建设部落学院和大学在STEM方面的能力，以及扩大美洲印第安人和阿拉斯加土著人对语言科学的参与。 与2008年举办的前几次研讨会（加州大学，圣巴巴拉），2010年（俄勒冈州大学），2012年（堪萨斯大学），2014年（德克萨斯大学阿灵顿分校），2016年（阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯分校），2018年（佛罗里达大学），CoLang已经开发了国家和国际成功的显着记录，和以前的参与者已将其研究所的经验纳入世界各地成功的实地工作项目和社区文献活动。CoLang 2020将投入五周的时间进行语言文档协作方法的强化培训。前两周将包括重点研讨会和有组织的讨论，提供最新语言技术，跨学科方法和道德社区合作最佳实践的实践培训。接下来的三周是专门用于“实践”（密集的实地方法），学生将直接与选定的濒危语言的发言者一起学习第一手的文件编制方法和应用，并将之前的讲习班中获得的技能结合起来。该研究所通过由来自国际社会的土著和学术专家以及语言和跨学科研究人员共同指导的强化培训，走在方法发展的前列。重要的是，CoLang 2020在这一领域的活动将继续支持社会和行为科学中稳健、可靠和符合伦理的研究模式。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Collaborative and community-based research models have increasingly been the interests in the field of language documentation and revitalization. Since its inception in 2008, the Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang) has been a biennial venue for researchers and community language workers to receive intensive training in collaborative language research responding to the global need for quality language documentation in the face of the world-wide crisis in language endangerment. In 2020, CoLang will be held at the University of Montana (UM), co-hosted by UM and Chief Dull Knife College (CDKC -- a two-year tribal college of the Northern Cheyenne in Montana). It will bring stakeholders together to develop collaborative practices and extend networking among all participants including language workers, language activists, language teachers, undergraduate and graduate students, and linguists from both academic and language communities. In partnering with each other, CoLang 2020 co-hosts (UM and CDKC) will demonstrate an Indigenous/non-Indigenous collaboration at the organizational level and encourage participation from the Indigenous communities of the United States and Canada. The Institute has continuously advanced knowledge in linguistics by its role in developing and sharing cutting edge practices in the scientific, ethical and sustainable methods for understanding the linguistic structure of the world's estimated 7,000 languages and for understanding the complex and important role language plays at the community level. Broader impacts of project activities includes the training of a wide range of audiences in skills in community-centered language documentation, supporting and building capacity at Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) in STEM through the language sciences and the broadening participation of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the language sciences. With prior Institutes held in 2008 (University of California, Santa Barbara), 2010 (University of Oregon), 2012 (University of Kansas), 2014 (University of Texas-Arlington), 2016 (University of Alaska-Fairbanks), and 2018 (University of Florida), CoLang has developed a significant track record of national and international success, and previous participants have incorporated their Institute experiences into successful fieldwork projects and community documentation activities worldwide. CoLang 2020 will devote five weeks to intensive training in collaborative approaches to language documentation. The first two weeks will consist of focused workshops and organized discussions, providing hands-on training in the latest linguistic technology, interdisciplinary methods, and best practices in ethical community collaborations. The following three weeks are dedicated to "practica" (intensive field methods), where students will work directly with speakers of selected endangered languages to learn documentation methods and applications first-hand, integrating the skills acquired during the preceding workshops. The Institute is at the forefront of methodology development through the intensive training facilitated by co-instructors coming from the international community of indigenous and academic experts in linguistic and interdisciplinary researchers. Importantly, CoLang 2020 activities in this area continue to support models of robust, reliable, and ethical research in the social and behavioral sciences.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.