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

协作和以社区为基础的研究模式日益成为语言文献和振兴领域的兴趣所在。自2008年成立以来，协作语言研究所（CoLang）一直是两年一次的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场所，以应对面对世界范围内语言濒危危机的全球对高质量语言文献的需求。2020年，CoLang将在蒙大拿大学（UM）举行，由蒙大拿大学和首席钝刀学院（CDKC——蒙大拿北部夏延族的一所两年制部落学院）共同主办。它将把利益相关者聚集在一起，发展合作实践，并在所有参与者之间扩展网络，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的共同主办国（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。为了理解世界上约7000种语言的语言结构，以及理解语言在社区层面上所扮演的复杂而重要的角色，该研究所通过发展和分享科学、道德和可持续的方法，不断提高语言学知识。项目活动的更广泛影响包括对广大受众进行以社区为中心的语言文档技能培训，通过语言科学支持和建设部落学院和大学（tcu）在STEM方面的能力，以及扩大美国印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民对语言科学的参与。CoLang曾在2008年（加州大学圣巴巴拉分校）、2010年（俄勒冈大学）、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）和2018年（佛罗里达大学）举办过研究所，在国内和国际上取得了显著的成功，以前的参与者已经将他们的研究所经验融入到成功的实地调查项目和全球社区文档活动中。CoLang 2020将用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，提供有关最新语言技术，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的“实践”（密集的实地方法），学生将直接与选定的濒危语言的使用者一起学习第一手的记录方法和应用，整合在之前的讲习班中获得的技能。通过由来自国际社会的语言和跨学科研究方面的土著和学术专家共同教员提供的密集培训，研究所处于方法论发展的前沿。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、可靠和合乎伦理的研究模式。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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.