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LDD 11 now available at discount price
The latest issue of Language Documentation and Description, Volume 11, is now available for order from the SOAS online store at 25% off until the end of March. All other back issues of LDD are also...
View ArticleMay madness?
The month of May 2013 has been one of the busiest in the history of ELAR. We processed some large and complex collections, such as Megan Biesele’s Ju|’hoan (ktz) Audio and Video Material 1970 to...
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Meet an Endangered Language: #4 Somyev
Linguistics is a huge discipline. As many readers will already know, linguists are often specialists in a particular field within the broad scope of inquiry into human language. This, of course, is...
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Stories from the ashes: Ambrym, Vanuatu
Come and join us at the film screening and Director’s Q & A session of the Lon Marum: people of the volcano followed by a drinks reception on 11th June 2013 at 5pm in the Khalili Lecture Theatre,...
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ELAR as a platform for communications
ELAR has a richly articulated approach to managing access to deposits through a system we call “protocol”. Each deposit item is assigned an access value chosen by depositors from the following options:...
View ArticleSongs in Endangered Languages Archives
Back in 2005 Sydney University musicologist Linda Barwick pointed out in a paper published in Language Documentation and Description Volume 3 that linguists often record songs as part of their...
View ArticleMetadata through the Prism of the Popular Press
Many of us archivists like to talk about – even have disagreements about – metadata. It is not part of the diet of the “man in the street”. However, metadata has recently hit the popular press and is...
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ELAR’s new home (page)
On 29th August, ELAR launched its new website at http://www.elar-archive.org, at a well-attended event, at the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB) conference. The new website replaces the...
View ArticleDocumentary Linguistics and Language Graveyards: an evening with Paul Newman
On Tuesday 15th October a large audience at SOAS was treated to a thoughtful and entertaining lecture by well-known linguist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus Paul Newman, from Indiana University...
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Call for participation: International Summer School in Language Documentation...
The Department of Linguistics at Stockholm University invites advanced students (PhD. or M.A. level) in linguistics and related fields to participate in The International Summer School in Language...
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