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Committee on Endangered Languages and Their Preservation (CELP)
Background
Established in 1992.
Charge
The CELP encourages the study and documentation of endangered languages and makes technical assistance available to language communities seeking to maintain their languages as living means of communication, or to document them for future generations. The Committee coordinates its activities with other relevant organizations, such as CIPL, the American Anthropological Association (AAA), the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA), the Society for Linguistic Anthropology, the endangered language committees of the linguistic professional societies of Canada, Australia, Germany, and others, and several private organizations and foundations focused on language endangerment, including the Institute for the Preservation of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas.
Responsibilities
The work of the Committee includes but is not limited to the following:
- Promotes strategies for use by individuals and institutions to assist and support the maintenance and revitalization of language varieties in language communities at risk of, or currently experiencing, significant language or dialect loss.
- Assists institutions to offer training and degree programs oriented to the preparation of grammars and dictionaries of threatened and poorly documented languages, as well as to the documentation and study of naturally occurring speech of all kinds in communities whose traditional linguistic variety is threatened.
Membership (open)
At least 6 members, serving three-year terms.
Committee Members
- Mary Linn, Chair, University of Oklahoma (2013)
- Peter Austin, School of Oriental and African Studies (2013)
- Andrea Berez, University of Hawai'i (2014)
- Claire Bowern, Yale (2014)
- Mike Cahill, Summer Institute of Linguistics (2014)
- Peter Cole, University of Deleware (2013)
- Lisa Conathan, Yale (2014)
- Lise Dobrin, University of Viginia (2013)
- Arienne Dwyer, University of Kansas (2013)
- Collen Fitzgerald, University of Texas, Arlington (2012)
- Alice Gaby, University of California, Berkeley (2014)
- Stephanie Gamble-Morse, University of California, Santa Barbara (2014)
- Lenore Grenoble, University of Chicago (2013)
- Marcia Haag, University of Oklahoma (2013)
- Danny Hielber, Rosetta Stone (2014)
- Elliott Hoey, University of California, Santa Barbara (2013)
- Gary Holton, Alaska Native Language Center (2012)
- Gwendolyn Hyslop, Australian National University (2014)
- Carmen Jany, California State University, San Bernadino (2011)
- Sara Johansson, Memorial University of Newfoundland (2014)
- Alexander King, University of Aberden, United Kingdom (2013)
- Seunghun J Lee, Central Conneticut State University (2014)
- Richard Littauer, University of Edinburgh (2013)
- Carolyn Mackay, Ball State University (2014)
- Jack Martin, Wlliam and Mary College (2014)
- Brad McDonnell, University of California, Santa Barbara (2014)
- Joyce McDonough, Rochester (2014)
- Marianne Mithun, University of California, Santa Barbara (2014)
- Onna Nelson, University of California, Santa Barbara (2014)
- Emerson Odango, University of Hawai'i (2013)
- Gabriela Perez Baez, Smithsonian Institution (2014)
- Kristen Perry, University of Florida (2014)
- Jorge Emilio Roses Labrad, University of Westen Ontario (2014)
- Ken Rehg, University of Hawai'i (2013)
- Patricia Shaw, University of British Columbia (2014)
- Wilson Silva, University of Utah (2013)
- Timothy Thornes, University of Central Arkansas (2014)
- Benjamin Tucker, University of Alberta (2014)
