Bewilligungen im Jahr 2008 - Volkswagen Stiftung

University of Victoria
Department of Linguistics
Aboriginal Language Revitalization
Dr. Leslie Saxon
KANADA
Ansprechpartner:
Universität Köln
Philosophische Fakultät
Institut für Linguistik
Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
Dr. Dagmar Jung
Postfach
50923 Köln
Tel.: 0221 470 5639
Homepage: http://www.beaver.uni-koeln.de/
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Leipzig
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"The documentation of Baure, a language of the Bolivian Amazonia"
(Weiterführung)
Bewilligung: 11.07.2011 Laufzeit: 2 Jahre
The aim of the project is a multimedia documentation of the Baure language, spoken in
the Bolivian Amazonia. Baure is seriously endangered, and Spanish is the dominant
language: the latest census counted 56 speakers and semi-speakers; all speakers are
older than 70 years; active transmission of Baure stopped at least 30 years ago. In the
final phase the project will concentrate on rounding of the Baure archive (by Danielsen)
and the finalization of two PhD theses: (1) Femmy Admiraal is working on the grammar of
space in Baure. She already identified the various kinds of locative constructions used.
She is studying now the semantic concepts underlying the locative constructions in order
to incorporate this in her thesis. (2) Franziska Riedel is analyzing the relevant
ethnological characteristics of the Baure, and for her thesis she is studying concepts of
illness and the application of traditional healing methods in Baures.
Universität Leipzig
Philologische Fakultät
Institut für Linguistik
Dr. Swintha Danielsen
Beethovenstraße 15
04107 Leipzig
Tel.: 0341 97 37637
Fax: 0341 97 37609
Homepage: http://www.mpi.nl/dobes/projects/baure/
Universität Leipzig
Fakultät für Geschichte, Kunst- und Orientwissensschaften
Institut für Ethnologie
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Andreas Brockmann
Schillerstraße 6
04109 Leipzig
Tel.: 0341 97 37220
Fax: 0341 97 37229
Homepage: http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~ethno/cms/Institut/Mitarbeiter/Brockmann-Andreas
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