Winner of the Beatrice Medicine Award In south-central Oklahoma and much of “Indian
Country,” using an Indigenous language is colloquially referred to as “talking Indian.” Among …

Since time immemorial, Indigenous languages have thrived in their homelands. In the land
now called Canada, more than 500 years ago foreigners arrived from lands afar and brought …

Speech play and verbal art have received new attention in the context of language
documentation and description, including new assessments of the importance of …

This article makes the case for linguists to take part in the study of musical surrogate
languages, where linguistic form is transposed onto music. It draws on the case study of the …

We present a description and an analysis of three related language games in Africa's Gulf of
Guinea: Fa d'Ambô's Fa do Vesu, Lung'Ie's Faa di Vesu, and São Tomé and Príncipe …

I reflect upon four decades of language community training, treating Watahomigie &
Yamamoto (1992) and England (1992) as the starting point. Because the training activities …

Although the ideal in work with endangered languages is to design collaborative projects
that integrate documentation and support for revitalization from the outset, the reality is that …

In this chapter, I present an overview of language documentation and revitalization focused
on the Amazonian context, drawing from several case studies. Prominent areas where …

Indigenous communities working to reclaim their languages have called for a shift from the
traditional research paradigm of language documentation and description, in which outsider …

Play languages (also known as language games or ludlings) represent a special type of
language use that is well known to shed useful light on linguistic structure. This paper …