Trondheim Workshop in Language Description and Documentation

September 6th - 9th 2010

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addresses aspects of language description and documentation. A special focus lies on comparative Bantu studies and the description of tone.
Courses cover practical issues relating to speech and text annotation and methodological aspects of conducting semantic fieldwork, techniques for eliciting data and the interaction between methodology and theory development.

The courses are open to 20 students on the first comes first served basis.

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

September 6th-9th	Mondag	Dienstag	Mittwoch	Donnerstag
9:30-12:00 coffee break 10:30-11:00	11:00-12:00 Keynote: tba Felix Ameka	Comparative Bantu Abdulaziz Lodhi	Semantic Fieldwork Henrik Bergquist 11:00-12:00 Tone Constance Kutsch Lojenga'	Comparative Bantu Absulaziz Lodhi 11:00-12:00 Text Annotation Online Dorothee Beermann
13:15 - 15:30 coffee break 14:15-14:30	Semantic Fieldwork Henrik Bergquist	Tone Constance Kutsch Lojenga'	Text Annotation Online Dorothee Beermann	Final Session Digitial Resources, Lexica, Grammars - Who needs what? Discussion
17:15-19:00 coffee break 18:00-18:15	Case Study Community Oriented Language Documentation for the Mountain-Togo Languages Felix Ameka	Practical Workshop Praat Wim van Dommelen	Practical Workshop Praat Wim van Dommelen	sponsored Workshop Dinner

STUDENT ACCOMMODATION

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The Trondheim Youth Hostel

The LDD has made a group reservation at the Trondheim Youth Hostel which allows us to offer very reasonably prized single rooms for the workshop period.

For a reservation of a room at the Trondheim Youth Hostel please send a short mail to: ldd.workshop

If you prefer to book a room in one of the many hotels in Trondheim you find more information at [Trondheim's Offical Website

MORE ABOUT THE LECTURES AND THE LECTURERS

Bantu

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Abdulaziz Y. Lodhi is a professor at Uppsala University and one of the main researchers of Swahili and Bantuistics in the Nordic countries

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Tone

Constance Kutsch Lojenga is a lecturer at Leiden University and an expert in the phonetics/phonology of African languages

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Semantic Fieldwork

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Text Annotation Online

Dorothee Beermann is an assoc. professor at NTNU. Her fields of research are syntax and lexical semantics. She has specialised in the use of online data basing for Language Description and Language Documentation

Text Annotation or Interlinear Glossing (IG) is one of the most common methods used by linguists across fields.

This is not so surprising since IG results from a long tradition of aligning natural language text with one

or several lines of annotation consisting of a short-hand that indicates the text's internal grammatical structure.

IG is the main means to communicate linguistic data, making Interlinear Glosses the main currency of modern linguistics.

Yet, we as linguists do not share a common understanding concerning the function of IG neither in our daily research nor in our publications.

In this course we treat Interlinear Glosses as a language resource (unfortunately not yet a common assumption).

We discuss linguistic annotation standards, depth of annotation and data pertinence.

We will learn how to build small corpora, and how to be more conscientious about metadata.

The creation of reusable data and practices of data and knowledge sharing will be addressed.

We will make use of practical examples from different languages to show how to build pertinent and reusable linguistic resources.

The participants will be introduced to the online database TypeCraft and to methods of language documentation online.

Praat

Wim van Dommelen is a professor at NTNU and the head of the phonetics section at the Institute of Language and Communication Studies.

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Community Oriented Language Documentation for the Mountain-Togo Languages

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Felix Ameka is a assoc. professor at the Department of African Languages and Cultures of Leiden University and an Associate Researcher at the MPI, Nijmegen

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Digitial Resources, Lexica, Grammars - Who needs what?

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WORKSHOP LOCATION

Norwegian University of Science and Technology - Dragvoll campus

The LDD workshop is located at Dragvoll the campus of the Humanities(Det humanistiske fakultet (HF)) and the Faculty of Samfunnsvitenskap and Teknologiledelse (SVT) of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.

At the Dragvoll campus you find next to the University library also a book store, a kiosk with a post service, a Mensa, and a coffee shop.

A map of the campus can be found HERE.