Friday, April 20, 2012

NSF: Documenting Endangered Languages

NSF: Documenting Endangered Languages  (DEL)

Due: Sept 15, 2012

URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11554/nsf11554.htm

Synopsis: This funding partnership between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) supports projects to develop and advance knowledge concerning endangered human languages. Made urgent by the imminent death of roughly half of the approximately 7000 currently used languages, this effort aims to exploit advances in information technology to build computational infrastructure for endangered language research. The program supports projects that contribute to data management and archiving, and to the development of the next generation of researchers. Funding can support fieldwork and other activities relevant to the digital recording, documenting, and archiving of endangered languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases.

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