Neil Coulter has spent 12 years in Papua New Guinea, working in ethnomusicology, literacy, government relations, education, and administration. During that time, he also served as the Pacific Area Ethnomusicology & Arts Coordinator for SIL. His doctoral dissertation, at Kent State University, presented ways of understanding music endangerment and encouraging revitalization of indigenous musical traditions.…
“Centeredness as cultural and grammatical theme among the Maya-Mam of Guatemala” Wes Collins, SIL, Ricardo Palma University When: Thursday, September 10, 12:20-1:15 Where: Mahler 5/7 In this talk, I discuss the key Maya-Mam cultural value of centeredness and I suggest that this value is a pervasive organizing principle in Mayan thought, cosmology, and daily life.…
The first Dallas International Academic Forum of the Fall term will be presented Thursday, August 27th by Jim Owen of SIL Vietnam. The presentation is entitled, “Classroom Language Mapping: An Advocacy Tool for MLE and Beyond.” An alternative (and less modest) title might have been “Language Survey on Steroids.” Classroom Language Mapping is cutting edge…
In order to welcome those who are joining us this session the SBA will be hosting an ice cream social in the Four Points lounge in Mahler on Saturday, August 29. The party will be from 7-9 and all are welcome.
July 20 @ 3:00 pm – Jul 21 @ 5:00 pm Dallas International Orientation is a 2-day event for students arriving on-campus. Most students attend orientation just a few days before their classes start. Students returning after a leave of absence (longer than 6 months) are required to attend only the second day of activities. For…
“More on Arapesh Noun Classes” by Bob Conrad, Dallas International & SIL There has been a claim that noun classes in Arapesh can be best described phonologically. However, this presentation will present evidence that they can be best described semantically. The presentation will include pictures of Margaret Meade in the Arapesh area many years ago.…
The Center for Excellence in World Arts invites you to a Launch Party and Ribbon Cutting at 7:00 on May 14, 2015. They are celebrating their new location, Building C3, Suite 300 at the International Linguistics Center located at 7500 West Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas. IziBongo, world worship band, will be presenting and a short…
Is the Indonesian passive still a passive when the agent phrase is a clitic pronoun? Dr. Paul Kroeger, Dallas International and SIL Thursday, May 14, 12:20-1:15, “Brown Bag Lunch” Mahler 7 The Malay/Indonesian verbal prefix di-is generally analyzed as a marker of Passive Voice. Some have claimed that this is not the case when the agent…