Cambridge Endangered  Languages and Cultures Group (CELC)

Alternate Wednesdays 17.15-19.00 during term time
From January 2012 at  CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road CB3 9DP

Programme 2011-12

“Language ecology as the new frontier of language planning: exploring the relationship between endangered languages and their socio-cultural habitat”


For further information click the individual event title.

Lent Term 2012

Manx as a Partial Pidgin and Language Ecology in the Isle of Man
Wednesday, 22 Feb 2012
Mark Williams (Cambridge)
A Historical View on Language Ecology and Language Planning
Wednesday, 7 Mar 2012
Nadège Lechevrel (EHESS, NIAS)

Easter Term 2012

The Role of Documenting Semantics and Pragmatics in Understudied Languages
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Tyler R.G. Peterson (Leiden)

Michaelmas Term 2011

The Limba Sarda Comuna (LSC) and the Traditional Dialects of Sardinian
Wednesday, 26 Oct 2011
Roberto Bolognesi (Amsterdam-Groningen)
Sustaining Myth: How Languages Get and Lose their Mojo
Wednesday, 9 Nov 2011
John E. Joseph (Edinburgh) NB venue AMES, Room L1