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Collective work titled "Field Linguistics on Endangered Languages"

June 2011: Linguist Colette Grinevald interview over publication of collective work titled “Field Linguistics on Endangered Languages”

Colette Grinevald, member of the Sorosoro Scientific Board and Harvard Ph.D. in linguistics, has worked in USA as a linguist for nearly thirty years. She is now a professor at the university of Lyon 2 (France) and at the CNRS-based language dynamics laboratory (« Dynamique du Langage »), and most of all, she’s a reference and a pioneer in the field of endangered languages description. Specializing in the languages of Latin America, she is highly committed to the defense and promotion of endangered languages and the people who speak them.

Latest of the “Faits de Langues” series, Linguistique de Terrain sur les Langues en Danger was recently published under her direction and that of Michel Bert, including a preface by Claude Hagège. Read more on Sorosoro.org...