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Direct linkAndrew Cowell; Chase Wesley Raymond; Maisa Nammari – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2025
This paper examines polar questions in Arapaho, from several perspectives. First, examples are given of consultants' elicited Arapaho glosses for English-language questions, along with consultant commentary and language ideologies on the proper forms. Of note is the consultants' preference for negative polar questions. Next, a series of…
Descriptors: American Indians, American Indian Languages, Native Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Rachel Fedorchak; Vade Kamenitsa-Hale; Hunter Thompson Lockwood; Monica Macaulay – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2023
This paper provides an empirical study of word formation and lexical expansion in a set of Algonquian languages, considering 153 terms for each language. These terms range from words that predate European colonialism to more recent forms coined by English L1 speakers. We propose a classification of the methods of lexical innovation, which involves…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Language Maintenance, Language Research, Documentation
Kari A. B. Chew; Lokosh; Juliet Morgan – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2022
Drawing on the authors' experiences developing Rosetta Stone Chickasaw (RSC), an asynchronous online Chikashshanompa' (Chickasaw language) course, this article shares examples of how relationality is enacted in online Indigenous language learning. We discuss the RSC interface and ways that it created opportunities and barriers to centering…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Assisted Instruction, American Indian Languages, Second Language Learning
Kari A. B. Chew – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2021
Indigenous communities, organizations, and individuals work tirelessly to #KeepOurLanguagesStrong. The COVID-19 pandemic was potentially detrimental to Indigenous language revitalization (ILR) as this mostly in-person work shifted online. This article shares findings from an analysis of public social media posts, dated March through July 2020 and…
Descriptors: Social Media, COVID-19, Pandemics, Language Research
Borgia, Melissa Elayne – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2014
Seneca elder Sandy Dowdy and her granddaughter Autumn Crouse direct a language nest school for children aged two to five years in a small longhouse-shaped building, "Ganöhsesge:kha:' Hë:nödeyë:sta'":, or the Faithkeepers School, on the Seneca Allegany Territory in upstate New York. They practice immersion teaching and use forms of…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Languages, Nonverbal Communication, Sign Language
Cruz, Emiliana; Woodbury, Anthony C. – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2014
We describe our own experience of linguist-community collaboration over the last ten years in our Chatino Language Documentation Project, focused on the Chatino languages (Otomanguean; Oaxaca, Mexico). We relate episodes in the emergence and evolution of the collaboration between ourselves, and of the collaboration among ourselves and the Chatino…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Documentation, Cooperation, Language Research
