[Hybrid] Linguistics for Indigenous Language Futures: Bridging Community Practitioner Language Documentation, Revitalization and Linguistic Research
Join Charlotte Logan, Postdoctoral Fellow of University of Toronto Linguistics, Center for Indigenous Studies, for a special keynote!
Indigenous language revitalization depends not only on understanding the many combinations of the verbal complex, but also on how meaning is compositional in everyday speech contexts, stories, and interactions. Linguistic research offers tools for analyzing these patterns, yet academic work and community-based language revitalization efforts are often separated by differences in goals and accessibility. This talk explores ways to bridge that gap by putting linguistic analysis directly in service of teachers, speakers, and second language learners.
Drawing on stories from Haudenosaunee oral literature, this work pays close attention to how the category of particles can illuminate aspects of language that are difficult for learners to grasp but essential for fluency and cultural meaning. Rather than simply assigning English translations to these particles, efforts to understand how particles uniquely shape communicative functions are necessary.
This is a hybrid event! To join online, Or show up in person to 3420 Rue McTavish, Donald E. Armstrong, Room 365.
