Language Documentation.

(Free University of Bozen – Bolzano, Italy,  July 15-19 2024)
Language Documentation Summer School

• PETER AUSTIN (SOAS, University of London)
  – Linguistic fieldwork: theory and practice.
  – Language documentation, language description, and language revitalization: how and why?
  – Corpus management and processing.
  – Outcomes of language documentation: mobilization and language support.
• SILVIA DAL NEGRO (Libera Università di Bolzano),
  – Ladin as a minority language in Italy.
  
• LIDIA FEDERICA MAZZITELLI (Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale)
  – Data elicitation and data management.
• FRANCESCA MORO & GINA RUSSO (Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale)
  – New minorities in Italy: Fieldwork issues.
• CRISTINA MURU (Università degli Studi della Tuscia)
  – A Sociolinguistics approach to Language Documentation.
• GRAZIANO SAVÀ (Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale)
  – WeSay by SIL. A tool for building up dictionaries.
  – FieldWorks (FLEx) by SIL. A tool for dictionary making and text analysis
• ANTONIA SORIENTE (Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale)
  – Data elicitation and data management. The experience of an interdisciplinary project in South-Sulawesi.
• MORENO VERGARI (Ethnorêma)
  – Ethnolinguistic fieldwork: A small lexicon on Ladin beekeeping activity
• RUTH VIDESOTT (Libera Università di Bolzano)
  – Introduction to the Ladin language

Have contributed: Nadia Chiocchietti e Sabrina Rasom (Istituto Culturale Ladino di Vigo di Fassa),  Giorgio Banti, Andrea Di Manno e Giancarlo Schirru (Università di Napoli L’Orientale).

I have been involved in language documentation and fieldwork training workshops and summer schools in UK, Italy, Sweden, Germany, Hungary, France, Poland, Netherlands, US, Japan, China, Hong Kong, India, Thailand, and Malaysia, but this past week in Bozen/Bolzano has been one of the best so far. Impeccably organised by Silvia Dal Negro and Moreno Vergari and their team. Great colleagues from Naples, Rome, Viterbo, and Bozen/Bolzano, and enthusiastic and engaged students and early career researchers from Italy and overseas (not forgetting the great German-Italian meals). The fieldtrip to a Ladin speaking town (who says you can’t catch a local bus to get to the field?) in a valley in the spectacular Dolomites was the icing on the cake. Thanks everyone for an exhilarating and intellectually and socially very enjoyable time. On to LDSS2025 in Viterbo!

(University of Naples “L’Orientale” – Naples, Italy,  
July 10-14 2023)
Language Documentation Summer School

• PETER AUSTIN (SOAS, University of London)
  – Introduction to linguistic fieldwork.
  – Fieldwork data and research methods.
  – Ethics and rights.
• GIORGIO BANTI (Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”), MORENO VERGARI (Ethnorêma)
  Saho: A language of Eritrea.
• FRANCESCA MORO (Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, ANTONIA SORIENTE (Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”)
  – Sundanese: A language of Indonesia.
  – Naturalistics and elicited data collection.
• GRAZIANO SAVÀ (Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”)
  – Making a language documentation project. 
• GRAZIANO SAVÀ (Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”), GIANCARLO SCHIRRU (Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”)
  – Audio and Video Recording. 
• SILVIA DAL NEGRO (Libera Università di Bolzano), CRISTINA MURU (Università degli Studi della Tuscia)
  – Software for documentation: Elan, Saymore.
  – Language documentation and sociolinguistics.
• ANDREA DI MANNO (Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”), PAOLO MILIZIA (Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”)
  Morpho-Syntactic Tagging.

Afternoon sessions with practice on the Saho language (with consultant Ahmedsaad Mohammed Omer, using WeSay and LexiquePro) and Sundanese (with consultant Gde Amartya Yoga, using SayMore and Elan).

(University of Tuscia – Viterbo, Italy,  July 11-15 2022)
Language Documentation Summer School

• PETER AUSTIN (SOAS, University of London)
  – Overview of tools and techniques for documentation and revitalisation.
  – Document and revitalisation: how and why.
  – Language documentation and description and language revitalisation – partners or problem neighbours?
  – Ethic and collaboration in linguistic research.
  
• GIORGIO BANTI (Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”), MORENO VERGARI (Ethnorêma)
  I am not satisfied with myself.  Aneddoti, problemi e soluzioni nella ricerca di campo.
• LUCA LORENZETTI (Università degli Studi della Tuscia), GIANCARLO SCHIRRU (Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”)
  – Tecniche e metodi delle indagini dialettali.
  – Indagini dialettali in area centrale.
• FRANCESCA MORO (Università degli Studi dell’Insubria – Como)
  Documenting minority languages of Indonesia: the case of Alorese.
• CRISTINA MURU (Università degli Studi della Tuscia)
  Techniques of data elicitation: a sociolinguistic approach.
• ANTONIA SORIENTE (Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”)
  Language documentation and interdisciplinary. Some case studies from Borneo and Sulawesi in Indonesia.
• GRAZIANO SAVÀ (Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”)
  – My experience in documenting endangered languages of the Horn of Africa.
  – Audio and video with ELAN.
• SILVIA DAL NEGRO (Libera Università di Bolzano)
  Costruire un corpus con ELAN.

PRACTICE WITH ELAN:

• PETER AUSTIN, GRAZIANO SAVÀ, CRISTINA MURU
  Discover ELAN
• GRAZIANO SAVÀ, CRISTINA MURU
  Transcriptions of audio and video tracks with ELAN
• SILVIA DAL NEGRO
  To build a corpus with with ELAN
• LUCA LORENZETTI, GRAZIANO SAVÀ, CRISTINA MURU
   Collect data from and with a native speaker