Schedule (Tentative)
Week 1
What is language endangerment?
Language background survey
Week 2
Language endangerment continued
Reading: McCulloch (2019); Rosenbaum (2017)
Week 3
What is language revitalization?
Reading: Harrison (2007), Chapter 1
Week 4
Language revitalization strategies
Reading: Hinton (2011); Kipp (2009)
Week 5
Technology for language documentation versus revitalization
Reading: Keegan (2018)
Week 6
Social media for minority languages
First reflection paper due
Reading: None
Week 7
Sustainability and technology
Reading: Wagner (2017)
Week 8
Descriptive linguistics and the role of linguists
No class: Watch The Linguists
Week 9
Reading: Lillehaugen (2016)
Week 11
Annotation project
Reading: Lopez and Lillehaugen (2017)
Week 12
Annotation project
Reading: Pérez Báez (2014)
Week 13
Wrap-up
Second reflection paper due by end of exam period