De workshop over de Papuatalen is inmiddels geweest. Voor abstracts en meer informatie kun je terecht op de website:
http://wwwstaff.eva.mpg.de/~gil/wlp/3/
Workshop on the Languages of Papua 3
20-24 January 2014
Manokwari, West Papua, Indonesia.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, WLP3, originally scheduled for February 2013, has been postponed, most likely to a date in the first half of 2014. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Jayapura, Papua, Indonesia
The 3rd Workshop on the Languages of Papua will be hosted by Universitas Cenderawasih, and will take place at a date to be determined, sometime in February 2013, in Jayapura.
Further information, including the precise date, will be available in due course.
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ISMIL: International Symposia on Malay/Indonesian Linguistics
| The next WLP... WLP3 February 2013 Jayapura, Papua, Indonesia |
WLP focuses on the most linguistically diverse part of the world, Melanesia, which straddles countries of Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Melanesia contains around a fifth of the world’s 6,000 languages in under 3% of its land area and less than 0.2% of its population. The scope of the workshop includes all languages known as "Papuan", plus the Austronesian languages that are spoken in the vicinity of Papuan languages in New Guinea plus parts of Indonesia, East Timor and the Solomon Islands.
These languages are astonishingly diverse, barely known to science, and face the threat of extinction without trace in the coming century unless concerted international efforts are made to meet the huge challenge of documenting them. WLP addresses the scientific issues raised by these languages, covering the whole gamut of linguistic questions from phonology to syntax to typology to historical linguistics, as well as topics bordering musicology, anthropology and prehistory; it also includes papers on digital archiving, documentary linguistics, scientific infrastructure and the training of linguists from minority language groups. In addition, WLP addresses various practical issues concerning the cultural and linguistic rights of minority groups in Indonesia, Timor Leste and Papua New Guinea, including language support and maintenance, and, in particular, the need for education programs that allow children to receive part of their schooling in their mother-tongue.
Previous WLPs
WLP2 8-12 February 2010, Manokwari, Indonesia
WLP1 8-10 August 2007, Manokwari, Indonesia