AISSEN IN HAWAII

Judith Aissen will be travelling to Honolulu in Hawaii between February 26th and March 1st to take part in the 4th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC). The theme of this year’s conference is Enriching Theory, Practice and Application, a theme which is meant to highlight the need to strengthen the links between language documentation (practice), deep understanding of grammatical structure (theory), and methods for teaching endangered languages (application). Judith will be among a number of distinguished scholars who have been invited to teach Master Classes at the conference. Judith’s Master Class is on Elicitation and Documentation of Topic and Focus Constructions/Processes and is designed to provide a set of skills and tools that will better enable participants to identify and understand topics and foci in texts and in elicitation contexts.