Athabaskan Conference 2012

该项目将支持2012年8月15日至17日在华盛顿州贝灵汉的西华盛顿大学举行的年度阿萨巴斯卡语言会议(ALC)。这次会议以前从未在WWU举办过，对于不列颠哥伦比亚省、艾伯塔省、育空、阿拉斯加和加利福尼亚州北部的阿萨巴斯坎社区来说，这是一个相对容易到达的地点。ALC是语言学家、教育家、语言规划者和从事阿萨巴斯语工作的社区成员的主要聚会。这是促进从事理论语言学和语言文献工作的阿萨巴斯卡主义者与参与开发或促进语言振兴计划的语言学家和社区活动家之间长期合作的关键事件。

This project will support the annual Athabaskan Languages Conference (ALC) at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington on August 15-17, 2012. The conference has never before been hosted at WWU, a location relatively accessible for Athabaskan communities in British Columbia, Alberta, Yukon, Alaska, and northern California. The ALC serves as the principal gathering of linguists, educators, language planners, and community members working with Athabaskan languages. It is a key event in fostering long-term collaboration between Athabaskanists working on theoretical linguistics and language documentation, on the one hand, and linguists and community activists involved in developing or fostering language revitalization programs, on the other.