Andean Aymara

Nicholas Evans, head of the  Department of Linguistics, Division of Society and Environment of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS) at the Australian National University, has written a book called Dying Words (published by OUP).  The LinguistList published a glowing review and summary by Daniel Hieber, which makes the book sound like a [...]

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Here are two online sources for works relating to evidentiality in Aymara:
Nuñez & Sweetser. 2006. ‘With the future behind them’ Cognitive Science 30:501-450 [link]
Hardman, MJ.  1982.  ’The Mutual influence of Spanish and the Andean languages’ Word 33:143-157. [link] (see section 5.4.1 for a brief overview of data source marking)

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There is a new version of ELAN now available for download. This program can be used to annotate video and audio so as to better analyze spoken/sign language and gesture. I don’t know of any study on Aymara that used this software, though I wonder of Nunez’s study could’ve benefited from it. 
In any case, you can [...]

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Meeting Description: 
One of the significant developments in Atlantic historiography over the past few decades has been the quickly expanding knowledge, on the part of historians as well as linguists, of the languages native to the peoples of the Americas. The purpose of the conference is to consider the consequences of this knowledge for significant lines of interpretation of the [...]

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The Endangered Languages Academic Programme at SOAS has just advertised a
2-year post-doctoral fellowship in any area of endangered languages
research. Applicants should hold a PhD on a topic in endangered languages
research, those who are close to completing a PhD will also be considered.
Salary is £25,583 - £30,973 per annum and the closing date is 20 February [...]

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Uppsala University has an interesting workshop planned:
¨The workshop has two goals. First, to discuss the recent advances in Language Documentation -what it implies, how is it different from traditional language description, how technological resources can be a tool in documenting lesser-known languages. Second, to create a forum in Scandinavia for those who are working on endangered [...]

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Peter Austin has an interesting post titled “Glossed texts - the fiddle factor” posted 7 Sept 2008. Indeed, most transcriptions are not a perfect match for the audio. Not only would such a document be hard to read by anyone not a discourse analyst, but it would take a lot of time to create. [...]

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“The Chair of ELDP is conducting a review of all ELDP grants and
administrative procedures. The Board of Arcadia will discuss the report
resulting from the review in November 2008. We are planning to change the
timetable to allow candidates more time to submit their grant applications.
It is also possible that certain types of grant will be modified [...]

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Agosto 14-16, 2008 – Universidad de Indiana – Bloomington, Indiana, EE.UU.
Organizado por el Programa de Lenguas y Culturas Minoritarias de América Latina (MLCP) y
el Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CLACS)
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The blog on these pages is only for those issues relating directly to Andean linguistics. Articles relating to linguistics, cognition, and perception can be found here.

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