Structure, context, and community in language documentation:
The new look of linguistic methodology

Saturday, November 19, 2005
Murray B. Emeneau Conference Room
370 Dwinelle Hall
University of California, Berkeley

8:45–9:15 Coffee
9:15–10:15 Andrew Garrett
(Berkeley)
Welcome and introduction
David Harrison
(Swarthmore)
"Ethnographic dimensions of linguistic fieldwork"
10:15–10:30 Coffee break
10:30–12:00 Keren Rice
(Toronto)
"Linguistic documentation in a community setting"
Patricia Shaw
(British Columbia)
"Where's the balance? Commitments to academic and endangered language communities"
12:00–1:30 Lunch break
1:30–3:00 Marianne Mithun
(Santa Barbara)
"What is a language? Documentation for evolving communities"
Pamela Munro
(UCLA)
"Dictionaries, indigenous communities, and the linguist"
3:00–3:30 Coffee break
3:30–5:00 Judith Aissen
(Santa Cruz)
"Working with indigenous linguists in the Maya area"
Tony Woodbury
(Texas, Austin)
"Training indigenous Latin American — and other — documentary-descriptive linguists in a major U.S. linguistics department: Some personal reflections"

This workshop is generously sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies, the Department of Linguistics, the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, and the Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley. For more information contact Andrew Garrett.