Conference
on
Endangered Languages

 

Nov.24(Fri), 25(Sat), 2000
 KYOTO INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE HALL
 

Ten lectures/presentations are scheduled;
  (1) to make the audience aware of the language situations throughout the world and of the serious nature of language endangerment,
  (2) to point out reasons for documenting threatened languages,
  (3) to formulate effective methodologies for documenting and describing those languages,
  (4) to find ways to address ethical issues when working in endangered language communities,
  (5) to devise ways to develop cooperative projects with the people of the endangered language community, and
  (6) to stimulate the audience to formulate strategies for maintaining and revitalizing endangered languages, both top-down and bottom-up approaches.

 

PROGRAM

Nov.23 (Thu.)

Registration,  Reception

 

 

Nov.24 (Fri.)

 

 

General Chairperson : Akira Yamamoto (USA)  

    8:40- 9:00  

Opening Remark : Osahito Miyaoka

    9:00-10:10 

Stephen A. Wurm (Australia)
  Ways and Methods for Maintaining and Re-invigorating Endangered Languages 
 Discussant: Oscar E. Aguilera F. (Chile)
     gRevitalization of Fuegian Languagesh
Discussant: Midori Osumi

               Coffee Break

  10:30-11:40 

Barbara F. Grimes (USA)
   Global Language Viability
Discussant: Darrel Tryon (Australia)
Discussant: Toru Hayashi
 

  11:40-12:50 

Willem F. H. Adelaar (Netherlands)
  Descriptive Linguistics and the Standardization of Newly Described Languages
Discussant: Cecilia Odé (The Netherlands)
Discussant: Kazuto Matsumura

  12:50-13:10 

Discussion

                 Lunch

  14:40-15:50 

Matthias Brenzinger(Germany)
  Language Endangerment through Marginalization and Globalization
Discussant: George A. Broadwell (USA)
Discussant: Shigeki Kaji

  15:50-17:00 

Victor Golla (USA)
  What Does It Mean for a Language to Survive?: Some  Thoughts on the (Not-so-simple) Future of Small Languages
Discussant: Colette Grinevald (France)
Discussant: Honoré Watanabe

                Coffee Break

  17:10-17:30 

General Comments : Nicholaz Ostler (UK)

  18:00-20:00 

Social gathering                           

 

 

Nov,25 (Sat.)

 

    8:40- 9:50

Yukio Uemura (Japan)
  Endangered Languages in Japan
Discussant: Michael Krauss (USA)
 Discussant: Zendo Uwano

    9:50-11:00

David Bradley (Australia)
  Language Attitudes: The Key Factor in Language Maintenance
Discussant: Toshihide Nakayama (USA)
 Discussant: Takumi Ikeda @

               Coffee Break

  11:20-12:30

Michael E. Krauss (USA)
  Mass Language Extinction and Documentation: The Race against Time
Discussant: Matthias Brenzinger (Germany)
Discussant: Megumi Kurebito

  12:30-12:50 

Discussion

 Discussant:Bernard Comrie (Germany) gGeneral Commentsh

  12:50-13:00

Closing Remark        Osamu Sakiyama

                Lunch

  14:00-14:30

Business Meeting

  14:30-16:30

Sectional Meetings  

 

  South Pacific Rim

chaired by  Norio Shibata

  North Pacific Rim (including AINU) 

chaired by  Fubito Endo

  East and Southeast Asia

chaired by  Takumi Ikeda

  Japan

chaired by  Katsumi Sibuya

  Africa

chaired by Osamu Hieda

  Documentation, Description, and Ethical  Issues

chaired by  Tasaku Tsunoda 

Terrence Kaufman   (USA)
 Two Models for Large-scale Linguistic Documentation
Colette Grinevald  (France)
  Encounters at the Brink: Linguistic Fieldwork among Speakers of Endangered Languages

Other participants from overseasF
Brian Levy(USA), Nelson Aguilera(Chile), Aleksandr Kibrik (Russia),  Marie Claude Mattei Muller(Venezuela),  Nicholas Oster(UK),  Tapani Salminen(Finland),  Jose Tonko(Chile),  Alevtina Nikodimovna Zhukova(Russia)

 

 

Nov. 26 (Sun.)

Excursion