CSILW Research
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Siouan Research Projects (see list of recent scholarly publications)
Lakhota Linguist Training Project
Project Goals: To select and train two-three young Lakhota individuals
as linguists to work on language projects with the Lakhota tribe. The individuals
will work with fluent elders to improve their linguistic abililty, while also
earning an MBA in linguistics at the University of Colorado.
Details: The project is beginning in Fall, 2007. It is being funded
by a four-year grant from the National Sciences Foundation/Documenting Endangered
Languages Program. Lakhota individuals are currently being sought to participate
in this project.
Contact: David Rood
Comparative Siouan Dictionary Project
Project Goals: The reconstruction of the sound system and much of the vocabulary
of Proto-Siouan.
Details: A long-term project started in 1989. Work that remains
includes final editing for consistency, formatting, and the preparation of
some introductory essays. We foresee eventual availability in both book and
electronic form. The project is not currently funded.
Contact: David Rood
Lakhota Project
Project Goals: Set of materials for the teaching of Lakhota
as a foreign language Details: Available for sale (in printed form only).
Details: This project is complete. The materials area available at the Lakhota Project website.
Contact: Lakhota
Project website.
The Siouan Languages Archives
A machine-readable data base of texts, grammars, and
dictionaries in various Siouan languages.
Details: Prepared in the 1970s. The
material needs to be converted to a form which will make it more widely available
for use on current computers, but it remains accessible for interested researchers.
Contact: David Rood
Lakhota Grammar Project
Project goals: The outcome will be a complex grammar of Lakota.
Details:
The project started in 2002. The grammar will be based both on text analyses
of modern Lakota and elicited data from speakers from the Pine Ridge
and Rosebud reservations. The project is funded by grants from the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft and the School of Oriental and African Studies (Univ.
of London). Electronic data will be made available.
Contact: Regina Pustet