After the much appreciated first two sessions in 2008 and 2009, the 3L Consortium of Lyon, Leiden and London is on for a third edition which we hope to be as successful.

The 3L Consortium is well known here at the Sorosoro Programme, as two members of our Scientific board have played a decisive role in its creation: Colette Grinevald, from the DDL Laboratory (Dynamique Du Language) of the University of Lyon2, and Peter Austin, Director of the Endangered Languages Academic Programme (ELAP) of the University of London.

The 2010 edition of the 3L Summer School will take place in Leiden, and will address various topics such as fieldwork methods, languages description and archiving, grammar writing, the analysis of tone, endangered sign languages, and the languages of South America, New Guinea, Indonesia and Africa.

As a reminder, the Consortium 3L of Lyon, Leiden and London was created in 2007 by the trio:

– DDL Laboratory (Dynamique Du Langage) of the University Lyon2, within the Africa-Latin America-Endangered Languages programme (AALLED, Afrique-Amérique Latine-Langues en Danger)

– SOAS Department of linguistics (School of African and Oriental Studies) of London University, within their Endangered Languages Academic Programme (ELAP)

– Leiden University Center for Linguistics (LUCL), Netherlands

Summer School detailed programme available here

This third edition follows on from the success of the first two 3L Summer Schools:

The first was held in Lyon in 2008 as an introduction to the concepts and practices of language description (phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicon etc…) and documentation (compilation and preservation of primary linguistic data, inter-relationships between primary data and various types of analyses, etc…)

The second edition carried on this reflection in London, in 2009.