BACKGROUND
Indonesia currently has around 700 living languages. Unfortunately many of the languages are endangered due to the pressure of bigger languages with more economic and political advantages. Prof. Abigail Cohn from the Department of Linguistics of Cornell University recently has been focusing on the issues of language use and language shift of the local languages of Indonesia as impacted by the increased use of Indonesian. To increase awareness of the language shift in Indonesia, the Graduate Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Cultural Studies, Universitas Brawijaya will hold two guest lectures by Prof. Abigail Cohn: (1) Linguistic Research and (2) Language Shift in Indonesia.
ACTIVITY, DATE, AND VENUE AIFIS
in cooperation with Universitas Brawijaya will conduct this event on:
Date : Thursday and Friday, February 13-14, 2020
Time : 13.00-15.00
Venue : Faculty Hall, FIB Building A, Brawijaya University
SPEAKER
Dr. Abigail Cohn is a professor of linguistics at the Department of Linguistics, Cornell University. Dr. Cohn's research focuses primarily on phonetics and phonology and their interaction taking a laboratory phonology approach. Cohn also focuses on the documentation and analysis of the Austronesian languages of Indonesia. In 2012-13, she was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, at Unika Atma Jaya carrying out a research project entitled Language Contact in Indonesia: Shifts in Usage and their Structural Manifestations.
