Conference to Advance Scientific Understanding and Broader Impacts of Indigenous Languages of the Americas: South, Central, and North

美洲的大多数土著语言都受到严重威胁，因此迫切需要增加对这些语言的科学和更广泛的影响。国际美洲土著语言研究学会是越来越重视语言科学有效方法的组织之一，这些方法使用各种方法论方法，包括基于社区的方法论方法，促进知识。这种研究范式强调与语言受到威胁的社区建立有意义的平等关系。该项目支持为拉丁美洲土著语言学会年会举办的一个讲习班，并提议将来自中美洲和南美洲的学术界和社区语言专家与北美听众聚集在一起，为记录和振兴美洲土著语言注入新的方法和战略。我们的目标是汇集这些不同的观点，丰富语言研究的语言数据的质量，最终导致对语言之间的关系，嵌入在语言中的传统知识，以及人类思维的可能性的新见解。更广泛的影响包括与参加本次年会的更多语言学家接触并向他们推广知识的潜力，通过SSILA网站提供结果，以及美洲其他地区的方法的潜在好处，这些方法可以对美国土著语言的保护和振兴产生积极影响。成员，研究人员和机构在美洲从事社区为基础的语言工作。通过支持中美洲和南美洲研究人员和土著社区成员的出席，研讨会将促进对社区研究如何在美洲概念化的理解，使用什么原则和结构，以及可以从彼此那里学到什么，以便以更道德和有效的方式进行语言研究，促进语言振兴，维护和记录。因为在整个美洲几乎没有一致的交流平台，所以在以社区为基础的语言文献方法方面值得注意的工作，以及在美洲其他地方发生的振兴并不总是到达美国。基于社区成员和研究人员和美洲原住民社区。对濒危语言习得的研究议程，或通过培训土著语言使用者来扩大参与，都是美国落后的领域。通过这种知识交流的新方法有可能加强对美洲语言多样性的科学理解和调查，扩大美国土著人和拉丁美洲人在语言科学中的参与，而学生的参与有可能在日益全球化的背景下增强STEM劳动力。所采用的方法将包括一个集体影响模型，该模型被定义为一组不同的利益相关者承诺在集中的基础设施下解决特定的社会问题，以共同应对非自然语言损失的挑战。该模型将有助于建立战略，为未来的沟通，合作和传播的社区为基础的方法，以语言的保存，维护，振兴，并在美洲的document.This奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得的支持，通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

Most indigenous languages of the Americas are severely threatened, adding urgency to the increasing the scientific and broader impacts for the documentation of these languages. The international Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) is among the organizations increasingly focused on effective approaches to the language sciences that advance knowledge using various methodological approaches, including, community-based. Such research paradigms emphasize meaningful, egalitarian relationships with communities whose languages are under threat. This project supports a workshop organized for the annual meeting of SSILA, and it proposes to infuse new methodologies and strategies for documenting and revitalizing American indigenous languages by bringing together academic and community language experts from Central and South America with a North American audience. The goal is to bring together these diverse perspectives and enrich the quality of language data for linguistic research, ultimately leading to new insights about relationships among languages, traditional knowledge embedded within language, and the possibilities of the human mind. Broader impacts include the potential for engagement with and advancing knowledge to the greater audience of linguists who attend this annual meeting, the availability of results through the SSILA website, and the potential benefits of approaches from other regions of the Americas that can positively impact the preservation and revitalization of Native American languages in the U.S. This workshop will provide an initial platform for communication among community members, researchers, and institutions across the Americas who engage in community-based language work. By supporting the attendance of and Central and South American researchers and indigenous community members, the workshop will promote an understanding of how community-based research is conceptualized across the Americas, what principles and constructs are used, and what can be learned from one another in order to conduct language research in a more ethical and effective manner and promote language revitalization, maintenance, and documentation. Because there are few consistent platforms for communication across the Americas, noteworthy work on community-based approaches to language documentation, and revitalization taking place elsewhere in the Americas does not always reach U.S.-based community members and researchers and Native American communities. Research agendas into acquisition of endangered languages, or the broadening of participation by training indigenous language speakers are both areas where the U.S. lags behind. Novel approaches through this knowledge exchange has the potential to enhance scientific understanding and investigation into the linguistic diversity of the Americas, broaden participation by Native Americans and Latinos in the U.S. in the language sciences, while the involvement of students has the potential to enhance the STEM workforce in an increasingly globalized context. The methodology employed will include a collective impact model, defined as a commitment by a diverse set of stakeholders to solve a specific social problem under a centralized infrastructure, to collectively tackle the challenges of unnatural language loss. The model will help establish strategies for future communication, collaborations, and dissemination of community-based approaches to language preservation, maintenance, revitalization, and documentation across the Americas.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.