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SUMMARY:The Sounds of Indigenous Language Revitatlization - Colleen M. Fitzgerald
DESCRIPTION:The foundation of American linguistics would not be possible without the significant intellectual contributions made by speakers of Native American languages in collaboration with linguists and anthropologists starting around the turn of the twentieth century. More than a century later\, speakers of these languages are engaged in Indigenous language revitalization\, reclamation and documentation and now partner in new collaborative ways with linguists. \nIn language revitalization\, communities often focus on learners sounding “right\,” achieving an accent that closely approximates fluent first language speech and minimizes “accentedness” (Munro and Derwing 2015). This puts phonetics and phonology\, that is\, sound\, front and center in Indigenous language reclamation. Drawing from examples in my own research projects\, I demonstrate ways to integrate phonological documentation and linguistic analysis into language revitalization\, reclamation and renewal. Such examples guide data collection to prioritize documentation of those materials often of most value to speaker communities: verbal arts\, narratives\, conversation\, prayers\, among others. Collection of these genres provides insights that sustain Indigenous communities in reclaiming their languages and also leads linguists to deeper scientific understandings of these languages\, of language itself\, and of how sound systems are organized and operate. \nFinally\, I outline one model of tribal-academic partnership\, a model that maximizes the kind of work that can be accomplished in a world of limited resources: too little funding\, too little time\, too few fluent speakers\, too few people trained to document so many languages. Training plays a fundamental role\, for students\, Indigenous community members and seasoned linguists. Innovative advances come as we integrate linguistic theory – in my case\, phonology—into collaborative\, community-based language documentation and language revitalization. I show that the science in this kind of endeavor asks new and exciting questions\, thereby transforming the landscape of what we know about language\, the methodologies by which we investigate language\, and the way in which we nurture alliances between linguists and language community members.
URL:https://linguistics.hku.hk/event/the-sounds-of-indigenous-language-revitatlization-colleen-m-fitzgerald/
LOCATION:Room 4.04\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20171130T163000
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SUMMARY:Englishes\, English Creoles and their Negative Indefinites - Professor Johan van der Auwera\, Department of Linguistics\, University of Antwerp
DESCRIPTION:The talk reports on a typological study of negative indefinites\, i.e.\, the counterparts to standard English nobody and nothing\, in Englishes\, primarily the New Englishes\, and in English Creoles. Particular attention goes to “Negative Concord” (“NC”)\, i.e.\, the exponence of negation through both a negative indefinite and a verbal negator. The study confirms that NC is widespread in both Englishes and English Creoles and claims that although this holds for both Englishes and English Creoles\, they have to be considered separately and that there is a lot of variation with respect to NC subtypes.  Important\, but mostly for the New Englishes\, is whether or not the British English input allowed NC. For Creoles special attention goes to the fact that they have typically created a new verbal negator (no). \nJohan van der Auwera is professor of General and English Linguistics at the University of Antwerp. His student and postdoc days were spent in Antwerp\, Berkeley\, Stockholm\, Hannover and Nijmegen. Visiting and honorary appointments took him to Bangkok\, Gothenburg\, Hong Kong\, Kyoto\, Leuven\, Madrid\, Paris\, Princeton\, Rome and Santiago de Compostela. He was elected as the President of the Societas Linguistica Europaea in 2004 and as member of the Academia Europaea in 2015. His research focuses on grammatical semantics with special reference to conditionals\, mood\, modality\, negation\, indefinites\, impersonals\, and similatives\, from a synchronic and diachronic as well as an areal perspective\, and occasionally from a historiographical point of view. Languages studied are English\, including New Englishes and Creoles\, Germanic languages\, European languages and samples of the totality of the world’s languages. He is the editor-in-chief of Linguistics. 
URL:https://linguistics.hku.hk/event/englishes-english-creoles-and-their-negative-indefinites-professor-johan-van-der-auwera-department-of-linguistics-university-of-antwerp/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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