Language Documentation and Description 7

[from the announcement by Peter Austin to the Endangered Languages mailing list; reproduced here since the volume includes several articles related to ethics topics. CB]

Language Documentation and Description Volume 7 is a special issue containing lectures on topics in language documentation and description from the 3L Summer School held at SOAS in June-July 2009. The lectures have been revised and expanded for publication, with added examples, diagrams, tutorial questions and exercises, and suggestions for further reading. Additional papers, by Peter Austin (practical advice on applying for a research grant) and David Nathan (on the role of audio, based on a paper published in the International Association of Sound Archives journal), will make the volume particularly useful to aspiring language documenters.

The lectures and papers represent state-of-the-art discussions of the theory and practice of language documentation and description by leading exponents, and the volume will be of interest to anyone teaching or learning about documenting and describing languages. The volume will be published in early 2010.

The price for LDD 7 is normally GBP 10 however until 31 January 2010 only, we are offering a special pre-order price of GBP 7.50 (plus P & P), a 25% discount. To order use the discount order form [.doc], or visit our website (www.hrelp.org/publications/papers/volume7/index.html).

Contents

Editor’s Introduction – Peter K. Austin
Current Issues in Language Documentation – Peter K. Austin
Communities and Ethics in Language Documentation – Peter K. Austin
Research Methods in Language Documentation – Friederike Luepke
Documenting Sign Languages – Adam Schembri
Language Documentation and Language Policy – Julia Sallabank
Language Documentation and Archiving – David Nathan
Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory – Peter Sells
Language Documentation and Typology – Oliver Bond
Roles and methods for audio in language documentation – David Nathan
Applying for a Language Documentation Research Grant – Peter K. Austin
List of resources

Volumes 1 to 6 of Language Documentation and Description are also available for purchase from our website. Orders for multiple copies to the same address attract a discount – contact elap -AT- soas.ac.uk for details.

Ethnopharmacology

http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au:9080/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:134?query=aboriginal

 

An ethnopharmacological study of medicinal plants of the Kamilaroi and Muruwari aboriginal communitites in northern New South Wales, by Qian Liu.

Innamincka Talk: book notice

Here is a book notice in eLanguage for Gavan Breen’s Yandruwandha grammar and texts set.

http://elanguage.net/blogs/booknotices/?p=85

Jeremy Steele: The Sydney language

Jeremy Steele’s MA Thesis on Dharug is available through Macquarie’s epository.

http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/738

Australianist meeting in Manchester

 

Australianist Workshop, Preliminary Programme
University of Manchester, Fr/Sa, 12-13 December
Fr 12 Dec
14.00-14.45 Clair Hill MPI Nijmegen Discourse functions of ignoratives in Umpila and Kuuku
Ya’u
14.45-15.30 Robert Mailhammer Univ. Eichstätt The role of pragmatics in the interpretation of aspectual
verb forms in Amurdak
16.00-16.45 Stephan Spronck MPI Nijmegen The semantic basis of verb classification in Ngarinyin – a
first exploration
16.45-17.30 Jean-Christophe
Verstraete
Univ. Leuven The genetic status of Umpithamu
17.30-18.15 Anthony Grant Edge Hill Univ. The Lower Burdekin languages: a reappraisal
Dinner in the “Curry Mile”
Sat 13 Dec
9.30-10.15 Claire Bowern Yale Univ. Hunter-Gatherer Language Change: An overview
10.15-11.00 Natalie Weber Yale Univ. Lexical and morphological reconstruction of Marrngu
11.30-12.15 Felicity Meakins Univ. Manchester Taking a stance on coverbs: Positional verb constructions
in Gurindji Kriol
12.15-13.00 Dorothea Hoffmann Univ. Manchester Motion and travel in Jaminjung and Kriol (to be confirmed)
Lunch
14.30-15.15 Candide Simard Univ. Manchester Prosodic units in Jaminjung
15.15-16.00 Eva Schultze-Berndt Univ. Manchester Form and Function of split noun phrases in Jaminjung
16.30-17.15 Bill McGregor Univ. Arhus The genitive in Worrorran languages
17.15-18.00 Stefanie Fauconnier Univ. Leuven Constructional effects of inanimate Agents in Australian
languages
Other Participants:
Justin Spence, Berkeley
Louise Ashmore, SOAS, London

 

[Crossposted at X]

‘A Triune Anthropologist Appears’?:

Gray, Geoffrey. ‘A Triune Anthropologist Appears’?: Gerhardt Laves, Ralph Piddington and Marjorie Piddington, La Grange Bay, 1930 [online]. Australian Aboriginal Studies; Issue 1; 2006; 23. Availability: <http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=424197630877346;res=IELHSS> ISSN: 0729-4352. [cited 13 Aug 08].

Language Documentation and Conservation

The latest Issue of Language Documentation and Conservation is out.

State Records Office, WA

The Western Australian State Records Office has some indices online.

How talking became human subjects research

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1124284

How Talking Became Human Subjects Research: The Federal Regulation of the Social Sciences, 1965-1991

Zachary M. Schrag
George Mason University
Journal of Policy History, Forthcoming

Abstract:
In universities across the United States, institutional review boards, or IRBs, claim that they have the moral and legal authority to control the work of researchers in the humanities and social sciences. While IRBs may claim powers independent of federal regulations, they invariably point to these regulations as a key source of their authority. This article draws on previously untapped manuscript materials in the National Archives to trace the history of the federal regulation of social science research. Officials raised sincere concerns about dangers to participants in social science research, especially the unwarranted invasion of privacy as a result of poorly planned survey and observational research. On the other hand, the application of the regulations to the social sciences was far less careful than was the development of guidelines for biomedical research. Regulators failed to define the problem they were trying to solve, then insisted on a protective measure borrowed from biomedical research without investigating alternatives.

Keywords: institutional review boards, human subjects, social science, sociology, anthropology, regulation

Ngarla

Ngarla Grammatical sketch, by Westerlund (Uppsala MA)