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	SIL International: Partners in Language Development
		By facilitating language-based development, SIL International serves the peoples of the world through research, translation, and literacy.
		Translators garner the meaning of words in one language and reproduce that meaning with natural flow in sometimes very different characteristics of a second language.
		Copyright © 2007 SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics)
	www.sil.org (109 words)

	Summer Institute of Linguistics - Wikipedia
		Summer Institute of Linguistics, eller SIL International (ofte referert til berre som SIL) er ein misjonsorganisasjon med hovudkvarter i Dallas i (USA), som har spesialisert seg på lingvistiske undersøkingar av ukjende språk.
		SIL har vorte kritiskert for to tilhøve: I klassifiseringa av språk og dialektar er det alltid vanskeleg å dra skiljet mellom språk og dialekt.
		SIL er også kritisert for å vere ein misjonsorganisasjon, dermed indirekte for kulturimperialisme, der målet med verksemda er å erstatte verdsbiletet og kulturen til urfolk rundt om i verda med det kristne verdsbiletet.
	nn.wikipedia.org /wiki/Summer_Institute_of_Linguistics#Kjelde (303 words)

	SIL International
		The purpose of SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics) is to work with language communities worldwide to facilitate language-based development through research, translation and literacy.
		SIL International is a non-profit, scientific, educational organization of Christian volunteers that specializes in serving the lesser-known language communities of the world.
		SIL specializes in the application of linguistic research to the literacy and translation needs of the minority language community.
	www.wycliffe.org /About/AssociatedOrganizations/SILInternational.aspx (139 words)

	APPEAL: SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics) International
		More specifically, SIL International is collaborating with the Asian Development Bank and the Philippines Government in conducting a study on the feasibility of expanding the Government’s “Regional Lingua Franca” programme to cover various minority languages in the country.
		SIL experts are also working with UNICEF in Lao PDR and Viet Nam to clarify policy issues related to language in education, while in Bangladesh, SIL International has joined a leading NGO-BRAC-in planning its “Education for Indigenous Children” programme as part of a nationwide NFE initiative.
		In November 2003, SIL International, UNESCO and Mahidol University (Bangkok, Thailand) organized the “Conference on Language Development, Language Revitalization and Multilingual Education in Asia.” Its purpose was to bring together policy makers, academics and practitioners from minority language communities to learn about current practices and to explore possible cooperative future efforts.
	www.unescobkk.org /index.php?id=2900&type=98 (333 words)

	Describing Morphosyntax: A Guide for Field Linguists
		Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Oregon
		There are not enough professional linguists to accomplish the task of producing grammatical descriptions of these languages before many of them become extinct.
		Good linguistic research communicates to minority language speakers and to surrounding groups that the minority language is viable and worthy of respect.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~tpayne/dm.htm (1103 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: SUMMER INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS
		The Summer Institute of Linguistics, Incorporated, was founded in 1934 in Sulphur Springs, Arkansas, by William Cameron Townsend (1896-1982) in order to apply linguistics to the problems of understanding unwritten languages and translating the Bible into those languages.
		SIL grew rapidly from forty-two members, when it was incorporated in 1942, to more than 2,000 members by the mid-1960s.
		SIL has cooperative educational and research agreements with about twenty-one universities and governments, including UT Arlington, the University of Oklahoma, the University of Niamey (Niger), the University of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), the Cenderawasih University (Indonesia), and Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (Togo), among others.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/SS/pas2_print.html (700 words)

	SIL - Summer Institute of Linguistics
		SIL is one of those places that desereve more than just a single sentence or paragraph in the FAQ's.
		SIL is involved in linguistics, literacy and translation and is focused on village communities.
		The published results of their linguistic work are donated to the National Library and the Michael Somare Library at the University of Papua New Guinea.
	www.michie.net /pnginfo/sil.html (661 words)

	About the Authors
		Robin Rempel is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics (Principles of Literacy) at the University of Arlington and the Summer Institute of Linguistics.
		Dorothy Shaler is a retired ethnomusicologist with the Summer Institute of Linguistics.
		She taught applied linguistics courses with SIL in Australia, at the University of Texas at Arlington, and at Trinity Western University in Canada.
	www.sil.org /LinguaLinks/AuthorsMZ.htm (3648 words)

	1973 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for International Understanding - Summer Institute of Linguistics
		It is with a particular sense of appreciation and encouragement that the SUMMER INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS accepts the 1973 Ramon Magsaysay Award for International Understanding.
		My colleagues and I in the SUMMER INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS begin to see the heartening results of the work we have happily volunteered to do in the hinterlands of this Republic.
		It also is a reminder which the SUMMER INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS takes to heart again in accepting with deep gratitude this recognition.
	www.rmaf.org.ph /Awardees/Response/ResponseSIL.htm (533 words)

	Mixtec Bibliography
		Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington, 1990.
		Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington, 1991.
		Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington, 1992.
	ling.wisc.edu /~macaulay/bib.mixtec.html (1453 words)

	Doulos SIL Font Home
		This Doulos SIL font is essentially the same design as the SIL Doulos font first released by SIL in 1992.
		SIL Doulos, as other fonts included in the SIL Encore Fonts package, was provided not as a working font but as a “library” font from which working fonts could be made using the TypeCaster program.
		In contrast, Doulos SIL is a working font to be used as is, not as a basis for derivative fonts.
	scripts.sil.org /DoulosSILfont (549 words)

	Using Computers in Linguistics: About the Authors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The LINGUIST List, which he founded in 1989 when he was a Lecturer in Linguistics at the U. of Western Australia.
		She received her Ph.D. in 1975 in English Language and Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin; and her primary research interests are textlinguistics, linguistic stylistics, and discourse analysis.
		Henry Rogers, having received a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Yale, is an Associate Professor of Linguistics, Anthropology, and Speech Pathology at the University of Toronto, and currently Associate Chair of Linguistics.
	www.routledge.com /linguistics/about.html (1302 words)

	Simons: Computing Environment for Linguistic Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Linguists have had to resort to using character shape editors (see, for instance, Simons 1989b) to define a customized character set that contains all the characters they need to use in a particular job.
		Another class of programs which is good at modeling the multidimensional nature of linguistic data is database managers: when a database record is used to represent a single object of data, the many fields of the record can be used to represent the many dimensions of information that pertain to it.
		Ambon, Indonesia: Summer Institute of Linguistics and Patimun University.
	www.ttt.org /lingsem/old/computing.html (5587 words)

	IPA Transcription with SIL Fonts
		SIL plans to continue developing Doulos SIL in the future, for the regular typeface only.
		SIL IPA93 2.0 Home Page — SIL IPA93 (sometimes referred to as the SIL IPA Encore fonts) encodes the version of the International Phonetic Alphabet adopted in 1993 (and revised slightly in 1996).
		SIL IPA 1.2 Home Page — SIL IPA encodes the version of the International Phonetic Alphabet adopted at the 1989 Kiel convention.
	scripts.sil.org /cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=IPAhome&_sc=1 (1343 words)

	Welcome to Oregon SIL
		The Canada Institute of Linguistics (CanIL) is situated on the picturesque campus of Trinity Western University, a small liberal arts university located in a rural setting on the outskirts of
		In no way do I mean to imply that the other SIL schools are not fun, but we have come to be known as the "fun school." Perhaps this is due to the fact that we have lots of parties.
		The Oregon Summer Institute of Linguistics (ORSIL) is an independent institute of higher education affiliated with SIL International.
	www.oregonsil.org (1871 words)

	Linguistics at Oregon SIL
		The Oregon Summer Institute of Linguistics (ORSIL) is one of several SIL educational programs around the world that prepare undergraduate and graduate students for careers in language-based development work, such as descriptive linguistics, literacy and translation.
		This department is one of the foremost academic centers in the USA for empirical, cognitive and discourse-based linguistic research.
		In recent summers, the colloquium series included lectures by such well-known linguists as Marianne Mithun, Wallace Chafe, George Lakoff, Brent Berlin, Scott DeLancey, and Doris Payne.
	www.oregonsil.org /linguistics.htm (427 words)

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		Other SIL software tools are Speech Analyser and Speech Manager, Windows programs for labelling speech files and for searching a database of labelled speech files; Shoebox, for interlinear text annotation and its predecessor, IT.
		Linguistic anthropologists have criticised the universalistic claims of Searlean versions of speech act theory, showing its limited applicability to non-Western modes of communication (e.g.
		However, such a critique requires an elaboration in its own right to the extent that it is based on assumptions of cultural uniformity at the expense of variability and contradiction.
	www.lycos.com /info/linguistics.html (494 words)

	Linguistics in SIL
		Linguistics in SIL focuses on researching undocumented minority languages, training field linguists, and providing resources to assist in linguistic data collection and analysis.
		The linguistics courses offered are both theoretical and applied, but with a focus on applied.
		SIL produces resources to help fieldworkers and researchers carry out their linguistic analyses; these include textbooks, reference material, software and fonts.
	www.sil.org /linguistics (102 words)

	2003 Summer Institute
		In keeping with the theme of the Institute, there will be a number of special courses in neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and the cognitive foundations of language on the one hand and in sociolinguistics, language variation, and language in culture and society on the other.
		Application forms may be found as inserts to this bulletin, in the Institute brochure (available fall 2002), and at the LSA and Linguistic Institute websites: http://www.lsadc.org and http://lsa2003.lin.msu.edu.
		Institute Affiliates may audit courses and take part in all Institute activities, and their fees are a principal source of student fellowships.
	www.lsadc.org /info/jun02bul/summer.html (3825 words)

	Charity.com: Summer Institute of Linguistics
		SIL is committed to enhancing their training to build further depth and competence.
		Detailed Description: Core tasks of SIL include linguistic research, language development, literacy-related activities, education and the translation of literature of high moral value, especially the Bible.
		SIL's primary focus of these tasks is the world's language minorities numbering more than 1.26 billion people.
	www.charity.com /charities/charity_listings/640.shtml (279 words)

	Northwest Christian College \| News \| Oregon Summer Institute of Linguistics
		The Oregon Summer Institute of Linguistics (ORSIL) runs June 12 – August 12, 2006, on the campus of Northwest Christian College.
		ORSIL is an intense academic program with courses designed for those interested in cross-cultural language work, linguistics, or teaching language as a career.
		The Oregon Summer Institute of Linguistics (ORSIL) is affiliated with SIL international; Wycliffe Bible Translators, USA; and Northwest Christian College.
	www.nwcc.edu /news/2006_5_15_orsil.aspx (118 words)

	GIAL Faculty: Shin Ja J. Hwang, Ph.D.
		(Summer Institute of Linguistics Publications in Linguistics, 77.) Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington.
		(SIL Publications in Linguistics, 104.) Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and University of Texas at Arlington.
		Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and University of Texas at Arlington.
	www.gial.edu /personnel/fac-hwang.htm (857 words)

	The American Communication Association: Studies Center, Language and Linguistics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		LINGUIST is developing this searchable database of information about graduate and undergraduate linguistics programs throughout the world.
		The Department of Linguistics at Indiana University is one of the oldest linguistics departments in the United States.
		The Department of Linguistics offers programs of study leading to the B.A., M.A. and the Ph.D. Theoretical approaches in all areas of linguistics are emphasized, providing a thorough grounding in five core areas of linguistics: phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics and historical linguistics.
	www.uark.edu /~aca/studies/language.html (1565 words)

	LINGUISTICS - THE LINKS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		This site is devoted to political issues (no linguistics), and includes full texts to articles, interviews, and some major works.
		For the historical (or was it hysterical?) linguist.
		Corpus Linguistics References to corpora in many languages, and info about many aspects of corpus linguistics.
	www.newpaltz.edu /linguistics/links.htm (580 words)

	Summer Institute Of Linguistics
		and fellow evangelical missionaries, SIL produced one of the leading academic linguists of the 20th century, Professor Pike, and masses of globally respected fieldwork on the extremely complex "real world" of human language.
		Though with the benefit of hindsight Townsend may have been a little naive in the case of the Soviet regime's priorities, his passion for the rights of minority ethnic and language groups throughout the world have fired many other idealists since.
		The SIL site was once pointed to by kb to answer a question of mine about the Basque language.
	clublet.com /why?SIL (184 words)

	SIL Bibliography: Summer Institute of Linguistics
		Institute of Regional Languages / Summer Institute of Linguistics.
		Benton, Joseph P. How the Summer Institute of Linguistics has developed orthographies for indigenous languages of Mexico (Cómo el Instituto Lingüístico de Verano ha formado ortografías para las lenguas autóctonas de Mexico).
		Pence, Alan R. "The Summer Institute of Linguistics in New Guinea."
	www.ethnologue.com /show_subject.asp?code=SIL (509 words)

	Linguistics at Florida Atlantic University
		Linguists List one of the largest sites with many links and with daily mail- ings to subscribers on topics of interest to linguists concerning jobs, new books, reviews, new graduate and undergraduate programs, conference announcements, requests for information, and so on (www.linguistlist.org)
		Linguistics Society of America, truly the international society for linguists, with a large site with definitions of all the sub-fields of linguistics, a program directory, resolutions of the society on public language matters such as Ebonics, a list of linguistics journals, links to affiliated organ- izations, and more (www.lsadc.org)
		Linguistic Data Consortium - creates, collects and distributes speech and text databases, lexicons and other resources for research and development purposes.
	www.linguistics.fau.edu /links.htm (647 words)

	Linguists' indigenous mission \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		Members of the Mexico branch of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, headquartered at 16131 N. Vernon Drive in Catalina, devote their lives to traveling the Mexican countryside, identifying indigenous languages and working to formulate an alphabet and dictionary for those languages.
		It takes an average of 20 to 25 years of work on each language from the time the linguists immerse themselves in the local culture to when the Bible translation is complete, said Albert Bickford, a linguistic consultant who has worked with the group since 1978.
		The institute runs three facilities in Mexico, the biggest of which is in Oaxaca, where linguists go to process the information they gather.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/145053 (639 words)

	SIL International (Summer Institute of Linguistics) Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		“SIL International has been working for more than 50 years to study, develop and document the world’s lesser-known languages.
		This work has not only contributed to national and international understanding of the richness of human languages, but also served to contribute to the well-being of the peoples themselves.
		SIL has carried out linguistic investigation in 1320 languages, spoken by 350 million people in more than 50 countries.
	the.arc.co.uk /70554.arx (137 words)

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