Organizations

Here is an ever-expanding list of URL's for organizations of interest to linguistic anthropologists...

Professional Associations:

• American Anthropological Association
• Society for Linguistic Anthropology
• Linguistic Society of America
• Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
• International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)
• The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing
• Columbia School Linguistic Society
• The International Phonetic Association

Digital Technology for Linguistics:

• Linguist List--the most comprehensive online clearinghouse for linguistic resources
• Documentation of Endangered Languages
• Linguistic Annotation--includes a comprehensive list of existing tools
• Linguistic Exploration
• Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

Lists and Bulletin Boards:

• Linganth Listserv
• Linguist List
• Endangered Languages List
• Language and Culture
• LitLin-List (The Discussion List of Literary & Linguistic Computing)

Conferences:

• Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT)
• Symposium About Language and Society-Austin (SALSA)
• Conferences on Austronesian and Oceanic Linguistics

Online Archives:

• Language Archives--an Index
• Open Language Archives Community (OLAC)
• The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America
• The Creolist Archives
• Smithsonian Institution
• National Anthropological Archives
• American Philosophical Society
• Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University

Organizations devoted to particular language families or regions:

• The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas(SSILA)
• The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America
• Alaska Native Language Center (ANLC)
• The Kamusi Project: Internet Living Swahili Dictionary
• Pacific Linguistics
• Australian Linguistics Network
• Minority languages of Russia on the Net
• Modern Hebrew Project

Funding agencies:

• National Science Foundation--Linguistics
• National Science Foundation--Cultural Anthropology
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
• The Endangered Language Fund
• Foundation for Endangered Languages
• UNESCO
• Phillips Fund Grants for Native American Research
• The Jacobs Research Funds

Educational initiatives for minority languages:

• American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI)
• Less Commonly Taught Languages Project
• Alaska Native Language Center (ANLC)
  

If there is a link you would like to see added to this list, send it to: dl2h@virginia.edu