Distant Lightning at #SSILA2021
A common thread that came up across all the talks was different types of schedules & technology that work best / are most familiar for research participants
Always an important consideration, not just during distant research!
Distant Lightning at #SSILA2021
- computer with internet? cell phone with data/wifi? landline? community mail?
- paying people virtually, esp in other countries, is A PAIN with university funding (perhaps worthy of an LD&C article!!)
- so so so so many security concerns
Distant Lightning at #SSILA2021
- participant-led research within household bubbles
- benefits of remote research in a transnational community*
- asynchronous work via social media — accessibility, flexibility
* plug: @TichaProject will talk on this theme at ICLDC!
Distant Lightning at #SSILA2021
I won't fully live tweet this excellent session on ling research from afar — videos are here: https://lightninglinguists.net/
But some fragments…
- teaching people how to use Elan via Zoom [hard, but possible!]
- mailing audio recordings in the post
TEACHING QUESTION
Has anyone taught a field methods class with an explicit focus on how to complete a project as a team?
#lsa2021 #ssila2021
Philology @ #SSILA2021
Perez Báez & Cata comparing ethnobotanical vocab in Cordova's Colonial Zapotec vocabulario and in the Diidxazá Lexico-Botanical Dictionary
Cool similarities & diffs, and some new info about the morpheme ba-
https://t.co/HljjF61PLE
https://t.co/5AX6Bl37Mg
Andrew Cowell's talk was a case study on putting synchronic analyses into historical context — some "weird" patterns look perfectly natural when you see the roots
Reminded me Rankin 2006, "The interplay of synchronic and diachronic discovery" https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197693.527
#SSILA2021
Philology @ #SSILA2021
Monica Macaulay called the Algonquian literature "a dense and scary forest" (her talk argued against a complex analysis in Bloomfield's Menomini grammar)
A big challenge of philology w/ older resources is sorting through antiquated & arcane analyses!
I may not do much live tweeting of #SSILA2021 & #LSA2021, but right now I'm in a session on historical and philological approaches to Native American languages
These talks all stem from a forthcoming Festschrift for Ives Goddard, "Webs of Relationships and Words from Long Ago"
With #SSILA2021 coming up this weekend, I second this reminder! Please please please archive conference materials somewhere accessible (my personal rec is @humcommons
)
If your presentation includes only slides, consider writing up a relatively detailed handout to post online https://t.co/kwKLj
Y'all we don't need to pay for a SF hotel room next Jan 🎉
Very excited to see how a virtual #SSILA2021 goes. Perhaps more latin am. scholars will be able to participate?
(I'm focusing on the positive, ignoring the upsetting reality that in-person confs are canceled 7mo out) https://t.co/uwBK
