Workshop on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation, University of California, Santa Barbara, Summer 2008

这项资助将为2008年夏天在加州大学圣巴巴拉分校举行的为期六周的野外语言学和语言文献研究所的关键部分提供资金。由于社会经济压力对大型民族语言的支持，世界上许多语言面临即将灭绝的危险，现在迫切需要记录世界上许多语言中人类知识的丰富文化遗产。该研究所将为研究生、专业语言学家和讲濒危语言的人提供机会，使他们能够接受广泛的技术和方法方面的培训，这些技术和方法目前可用于语言记录。一个重要的重点将是训练有素的语言学家如何有效地与语言社区合作，并为他们提供必要的工具和培训，以记录、保存或振兴他们自己的语言和文化遗产。

This grant provides funding for critical portions of a six-week Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation, to be held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in the summer of 2008. Since many of the world's languages are facing imminent extinction due to socioeconomic pressures that favor large national languages, there is now a critical need to document the rich cultural legacies of human knowledge embedded in the world's many languages.The institute will provide an opportunity for graduate students, professional linguists, and speakers of endangered languages to become trained in a wide range of technologies and methods that are now available for the documentation of languages. A significant emphasis will be how trained field linguists can work productively with speech communities and provide them with the tools and training necessary to document, preserve, or revitalize their own linguistic and cultural heritage.