Andean Aymara

Leo Wetzel’s AmazonianLinguistics website has recently posted news of Amazonicas III scheduled for 19-24 April in Bogotá. The main topics include the phonetics/phonology of laryngeal features, the expression of spatial notions, valency increasing devices in Arawakan languages, and lexical categorization. More information can be found on the site.

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MPI (with DOBES funding) has a call for papers from Master’s students for a workshop from 30 May to 4 June 2010:
The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics will award five student bursaries for participation in the workshop Hunter-gatherers and semantic categories and we hereby invite talented young Master’s students to submit applications. Preference will be [...]

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The writers, Virginia Beavert and Sharon Hargus have authored the dictionary, which comes with over 9000 sound files.  According to the University of Washington Press:
Sahaptin, or Ichishkíin Sínwit (literally, “this language”), is a Plateau Penutian language spoken in south-central Washington and northern Oregon. This dictionary documents the dialect of Sahaptin that is spoken by the [...]

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Foreign Policy magazine has an article online about modern Tibet. It deals with a variety of political and religious implications of a modern China, but one of the more interesting facets of the article has to do with the effect of tourism on native populations. Such realities are, of course, not just limited to Tibet, [...]

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David Eberhard has published his Mamaindê grammar with the LOT dissertation series (236).  The abstract can be seen on the LinguistList. An excerpt can be found here.
Cross-posted from Leo Wetzels’  Amazonian Linguistics website.
Incidentally, the TLS has a review of a new collection, published in Gallimard’s Bilbiothèque de la Pléiade, of Lévi-Strauss’s collected works. Wilcken writes:
The Pléiade edition [...]

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