The LSA is proud of our members who have been awarded the 2017 Language Legacies Grants by the Endangered Language Fund: Bernat Bardagil-Mas, Anne Bertrand, and Brendon Yoder.

Congratulations and best wishes for your projects!

Bernat Bardagil-Mas – A Dictionary of Panará Language and Culture
This grant will enable Bardagil-Mas to continue fieldwork with Panará, leading to completion of a dissertation on Panará morphosyntax. Panará is spoken by about 500 people in the Eastern Amazon. During this project, work will be undertaken with indigenous educators to create a digital dictionary of the language. Each entry will contain example sentences, pictures, and recordings.

Anne Bertrand – Encoding Meaning across Domains in Ktunaxa
Ktunaxa is a language isolate with two distinct dialects, spoken in four communities in Canada, in British Columbia, and two in the United States, in Montana and Idaho. This project will fill a gap in pedagogical materials by concentrating on conversation, specifically in the areas of speech acts and reference tracking with nouns and pronouns. The research team will create a phrasebook, short videos depicting stories and conversations, and a description of the principles for turn-taking, speech acts, and reference tracking.

Brendon Yoder – Documentation of the Abawiri Language
This project, an expansion of an ELF-supported pilot from 2015, will document the Abawiri language of Indonesia using recordings of a wide variety of genres of natural speech. Abawiri, which has only 350 speakers, has not been previously documented. 

The LSA encourages its members to nominate themselves or their colleagues, as appropriate, for these and other honors and awards.  Find out more about The Language Legacies grants here. To find out more about arranging for a possible nomination, please contact Alyson Reed.