Conference on the Sociolinguistics of Language Endangerment

This conference is sponsored by CIPL and is being held in conjunction with the 3L International Summer School in Language Documentation and Description, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 22 June-3 July 2009.

For further information on the 3L Summer School, see http://www.hrelp.org/events/3L/index.html

Updated information on the conference will be found on this web site and on the 3L Summer School website at http://www.hrelp.org/events/3L/cipl.html

The conference convenor is CIPL Professor in the 3L Summer School, David Bradley, La Trobe U and CIPL Executive member.

Special presentations will be given by David Bradley and by Prof Matthias Brenzinger, Cologne U; Prof Christian Lehmann, Erfurt U and CIPL Executive member; and Prof Peter Trudgill, U of Agder, U of East Anglia and La Trobe U.

The titles of these talks are:

• David Bradley, Resilience thinking and language endangerment
• Matthias Brenzinge, Documenting concepts in contact: the loss of conceptual diversity
• Christian Lehmann, Understanding grammar: for instance Yucatec Maya
• Peter Trudgill, On the world-wide loss of linguistic complexity: a sociolinguistic-typological view

Other papers to be presented are:

• Aline da Cruz, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: The sociolinguistic status of Nheengatú spoken in the Upper Rio Negro
• Pierpaolo Di Carlo, University of Florence: Take care of the poets! Verbal art performance as a key factor in the preservation of the Kalasha culture and language
• Sascha Sebastian Griffiths, University of Kent: Cultural constraints on grammar: evidence from Wawa
• Maarten Mous & Sara Petrollino, Leiden University: The memory of a dead language: The Aasa of Tanzania
• Maïa Ponsonnet, université Paris 8-Saint-Denis: Brainwash from English?
• Julia Sallabank, School of Oriental and African Studies, London: Endangered language maintenance and revitalisation: social networks and language planning (with reference to Guernsey, Channel Islands)
• Narayan Sharma (Gautam), Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal: Why Puma is an endangered minority language

All email communication concerning this conference should be directed to CIPLconference2009@gmail.com