Goodbye uncle

We’ll miss you.

Elan third party items

http://www.lat-mpi.eu/tools/elan/thirdparty provides links to third party plugins for Elan, including CuPED.
[edited to remove comment that the CuPED site is down, since it's back up!]

Fieldwork and the movies (1): Indiana Jones

Back in February I was part of a panel at the Rice Linguistics Society meeting on linguistic theory and fieldwork and their relations. My talk was comparative in nature and focused on the contribution to the field of certain important figures; Indiana Jones, Sherlock Holmes, and Gregory House. Over the next few weeks I will [...]

Database of structures

There’s a new online database of structures being developed. This from the LinguistList:
Dear LinguistList Readers,
We are pleased to announce SSWL, an open-ended database of the syntactic
structures of the world’s languages:
http://sswl.railsplayground.net/
(alternatively, Google: sswl database)
Please feel free to go to the site and play around with it, doing searches
and browsing the languages and properties.
Ultimately, we hope to [...]

community heritage grants

The National Library of Australia’s Community Heritage Grants program is calling for new proposals. Information can be found here. Looks like it would be very appropriate for Indigenous language work.

Linguists’ roles in communities

One of the many things I’m doing at the moment is writing a paper on doing experimental work in collaborative fieldwork communities. I wasn’t at the Hawaii endangered language conference but I’ve been hearing rumours that there was a lot of talk which could be said to boil down to “linguists shouldn’t do anything in [...]

Guest post: Barry Alpher on Geoff O’Grady

[Here is a guest post from Barry Alpher in remembrance of Geoff. See also the ELAC blog for more updates.]
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Geoff O’Grady sent me an offprint of his 1966 paper on Proto-Ngayarda not long after I had returned, late in 1967, from fieldwork in western CYP. At the time I was enthusiastically working through Ken Hale’s [...]