Planning for Funding Research on Endangered Languages

在国家科学基金会的支持下，爱丽丝·哈里斯博士将协调一次会议，计划与国家科学基金会内部新倡议的最终发展相关的各种活动。这些活动的长期目标是为记录濒危语言的项目提供资金。这些文献在以下方面具有重要意义：(1)语言变异与认知能力的假设限制之间的关系；(2)语族的构成和历史对人类史前研究的启示；(3)关于自然世界的知识是如何用消亡的语言进行编码的。

With National Science Foundation support, Dr. Alice Harris will coordinate a meeting to plan a variety of activities associated with the eventual development of a new initiative within NSF. The long-range goal of these activities is to dedicate funding to projects that document endangered languages. Such documentation is significant for (1) the relation between language variation and hypothesized limitations in cognitive capacity; (2) the ways that constituence and history of language families inform research on human pre-history; (3) how knowledge of the natural world is encoded in dying languages.