Workshops and Presentations
Upcoming Workshops
Will be held at 4.00p.m. in Room D3-150 at The Cairns Institute building, James Cook University, 14-88 McGregor Road, Smithfield.
Organisers: Prof Sasha Aikhenvald and Prof Bob Dixon
Meetings continue to be by invitation only (COVID-19). Please apply to:
Previous workshops
Date: 24 March 2021, 4.00p.m Room D3-150 (The Cairns Institute)
'Non-verbal predicates and copula clauses in Tariana (Arawak, Brazil)'
Presentation by Prof Sasha Aikhenvald
Organisers: Prof Sasha Aikhenvald and Prof Bob Dixon
See or Download the INITIAL ORIENTATION FOR LCRC 2021 LOCAL WORKSHOP here
Meetings continue to be by invitation only (COVID-19). Please apply to:
Date: 10 March 2021, 4.00p.m Room D3-150 (The Cairns Institute)
Organizers: Prof Sasha Aikhenvald and Prof Bob Dixon
Please Note - Meetings continue to be by invitation only (COVID-19). Contact either organizer if you wish to attend - alexandra.aikhenvald@jcu.edu.au
Dates: 25-27 November 2020, JCU Cairns
Organizers: Luca Ciucci, Rob Bradshaw, Pema Wangdi, Alexandra Aikhenvald
To be held at The Cairns Institute (D3), James Cook University, 14-88 McGregor Road, Smithfield, QLD 4878
13–14 de noviembre de 2020
(An online conference on the languages of Chiquitania co-organized by the Language and Culture Research Centre)
Group Photo, International Workshop 'Possession and Ownership', JCU, 2010
Key From Left to Right:
Back Row:
Prof Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Prof Isabelle Bril, Dr Felix Ameka, Dr Tianqiao (Mike) lu, Prof Lev Michael, Dr Yongxian Luo, Dr Michael Wood
Middle Row:
Dr Anne Schwarz, Associate Prof. Rosita Henry, Prof Anne Storch, Dr Gloria Gravelle, Dr Mark Post
Front Row:
Prof Sasha Aikhenvald, Prof Bob Dixon, Elena Rhind, Prof Alan Dench
Intensive block course for graduate and postgraduate candidates
When faced with people at your field site who speak a language different from your own, how to proceed?
JCU’s Language and Culture Research Centre (LCRC) will run the highly successful Linguistic Skills for Ethnographic Research Masterclass on 5-6 April 2018 at JCU Cairns (Room D3.144, The Cairns Institute).
This free two-day workshop may be credited towards the elective component of RD7003: Professional Development.
Organised by Dr Kasia Wojtylak, the masterclass will host invited speakers Dr Alex Walker, Dr Luca Ciucci, and PhD students in linguistics Abe Bai Junwei and Nathan White.
The course has been designed for anthropologists and other researchers who conduct fieldwork in areas where non-written and lesser-known languages are spoken. It will introduce candidates to reasons why competency in the local language could be important to their research, and give them introductory concrete, practical methods for language learning and linguistic documentation.
Interested candidates should contact Dr Kasia Wojtylak by email to katarzyna.wojtylak@jcu.edu.au by 20 March 2018.
Masterclass Program
Day 1 | Thurs 5 April 2018
- 0900-1030 Introduction to language, linguistics, and fieldwork research (Kasia Wojtylak)
- 1030-1100 Break
- 1100-1230 Language sounds and the IPA (Luca Ciucci)
- 1230-1330 Break
- 1330-1400 Monolingual demonstration with speaker of non-European language (Kasia Wojtylak)
- 1400-1530 Introduction to morphological analysis (Kasia Wojtylak)
- 1530-1600 Break
- 1600-1700 Further discussion of practical field techniques related to the day's topics (Kasia Wojtylak)
Day 2 | Fri 6 April 2018
- 0900-1030 How phonology relates to phonetics (Alex Walker)
- 1030-1100 Break
- 1100-1230 Understanding syntax (Nathan White)
- 1230-1330 Break
- 1330-1430 Interesting topics in linguistics: genders and noun class markers, evidentiality, case marking (Kasia Wojtylak and Abe Bai Junwei)
- 1430-1500 Analysis of undescribed language morphology (Kasia Wojtylak)
- 1500-1530 Break
- 1530-1600 Ethics of linguistic fieldwork (Kasia Wojtylak)
- 1600-1700 Existing software for dictionary building and language analysis (Abe Bai Junwei)
- 1700-1730 Summary, addressing individual questions, and wrap-up (Kasia Wojtylak)
LCRC 2018 Workshop: Number systems in grammar
Distinguished Professor Aikhenvald presents a Position paper for this workshop and the points to address 'What to investigate'.
Number systems in grammar position paper
News and photos from the April 2018 workshop
You are faced with people at your field site who speak a language different from your own: how to proceed?
The LCRC ran the highly successful Linguistic Skills for Ethnographic Field Research Masterclass on 5-6 April 2018 at The Cairns Institute, JCU.
The Masterclass, organised and run by Dr Kasia Wojtylak, also included lectures by LCRC linguists, Dr Alex Walker, Dr Luca Ciucci, and the PhD students, Bai Junwei (Abe) and Nathan White.
The course was designed for anthropologists and other researchers who conduct fieldwork in areas where non-written and lesser-known languages are spoken. The course introduced students to reasons why competency in the local language could be important to their research, and gave them introductory concrete, practical methods for linguistic research.
Masterclass topics included:
- introduction to language
- language sounds
- morphological analysis
- syntax
- ethics of linguistic fieldwork, and
- demonstration of software for dictionary-building and language-analysis.
Nathan White, together with Bai Junwei, led a special event during the course – a monolingual demonstration with a speaker of non-European language – or, in other words – what do you do when you meet someone and you have no language in common? The workshop sparked a series of vibrant conversations among students discussing intricacies of the grammatical systems of world’s languages.
See the photos here.
Special workshop convened by the LCRC and the University of Augsburg
Download Program and Abstracts (PDF, 952 KB)
Start Date: 11th Jul 2018 1:45pm
End Date: 12th Jul 2018 5:30pm
Special workshop - 'Word': Its manifestations and functions
Download Program (PDF, 222 KB)
See the photos here.
Start Date: 3rd Oct 2018 9:30am
End Date: 4th Oct 2018 5:30pm
