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Sunday, 6 JanuaryWorkshopMethodology and Practice in Collaborative Language ResearchFairfield/Exeter/Dartmouth9:00 AM – 12:00 PMOrganizers:Sponsors:Participants:Mary S. Linn (University of Oklahoma)Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins (University of Victoria)LSA Committee on Endangered Languages and Their Preservation (CELP)LSA Ethics CommitteeMayangna Yulbarang Balna (URACCAN)Elena Benedicto (Purdue University)Jeremy Bradley (University of Vienna)G. Tucker Childs (Portland State University)Emiliana Cruz (The University of Massachusetts at Amherst)Hilaria Cruz (University of Texas at Austin)Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins (University of Victoria)Lise Dobrin (University of Virginia)Ratu Drukpa (Firebird Foundation)Arienne Dwyer (University of Kansas)Carrie Dyck (Memorial University of Newfoundland)Jeff Good (University at Buffalo)Kristine A. Hildebrandt (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville)Gwendolyn Hyslop, (Australian National University)Amos Key, Jr. (Woodland Cultural Centre)Mary S. Linn (University of Oklahoma)Charity Appell McNabb (Firebird Foundation)Sieglien Jubithana Oosterwolde (St. Gerardus School and Kari’nja Language School, Suriname)Mary Paster (Pomona College)Ross Perlin (University of Bern)Keren Rice (University of Toronto)Laura C. Robinson (University of California, Santa Barbara)Olivia N. Sammons (University of Alberta)Saul Schwartz (Princeton University)Karma Tshering, (Australian National University)Racquel-María Yamada (University of Oklahoma)In the twenty years since Hale et al. 1992 drew attention to endangered languages and the effects of language loss oncommunities, linguistic field and documentary methodology has been undergoing a shift in conceptualization and practice. Manylinguists have argued in favor of adopting endangered language documentation methodologies involving some form ofpartnership and collaboration between communities and linguists. In addition, numerous illustrations of collaborative and teambaseddocumentation projects involving linguists and community members have been published or presented at conferences, andmany funding programs consider collaboration to be an important component of research proposals.Responding to this shift in practice, this CELP/Ethics-sponsored workshop focuses on collaborative, community-engagedmethodologies in linguistic documentation and fieldwork. While much of the published work on collaborative fieldworkmethodologies argues in their favor, important critical responses to some of the premises, claims, and assumptions made byproponents of collaborative methodologies have also appeared. This workshop thus aims to provide a critical assessment ofcollaborative research through illustrative and theoretical studies with the ultimate goal of enriching the discussion surroundingcollaboration in the field of linguistics, as has happened in the field of anthropology.The goals of the workshop are 1) to deepen our understanding of community-linguist collaborations in endangered languageresearch environments worldwide, 2) to problematize and thus further define collaborative methodologies in the documentation ofendangered languages, and 3) to contribute to the construction of a typology of collaborative methodologies in endangeredlanguage research.112