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A podcast about linguistic fieldwork, where seasoned fieldworkers share their stories from the field of language documentation & description.
Ep. 43: Language Documentation & Revitalization in Canada with Nicholas Welch
Field Notes
34 minutes 54 seconds
2 years ago
Ep. 43: Language Documentation & Revitalization in Canada with Nicholas Welch
This month's episode is with Nicholas Welch from Memorial University of Newfoundland. Nicholas is the Canada Research Chair in Change, Adaptation and Revitalization of Aboriginal Languages and Assistant Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He received his B.A. and M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Victoria. His Ph.D. is from the University of Calgary and his dissertation was entitled: "The bearable lightness of being: The encoding of coincidence in two- copula languages". He has done extensive research on Dene and Algonquian morphosyntax, and has also done language revitalization work with languages of Labrador. In addition to teaching and research, Nicholas also runs the YouTube channel, Labrador Languages Preservation Laboratory (LLPL).
Things mentioned in this episode:
Na-Dene language family
Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì language
Tsúùt’ínà language
Dene Dzage language
Dëne Sųłıné language
Algonquian language family
Inuit language family
Inuktitut language
Miꞌkmaq language
Slavey language family
Mauritian Creole
Twi language
Nicholas on Google Scholar
Field Notes
A podcast about linguistic fieldwork, where seasoned fieldworkers share their stories from the field of language documentation & description.