Linguistic resources

Indiana Working Papers in South Asian Languages and Cultures (IWPSALC)

You can find more of our work at our new journal, Indiana Working Papers in South Asian Languages and Cultures, which we’ll use to ensure regular dissemination of our research findings.

The inaugural volume (July 2019) contains papers that emerged from the Hakha Lai/Laiholh field methods class, as well as Swadesh lists for Lawngtlang Zophei and Lutuv, two other Chin languages.

Volume 2 was published in September 2020 and contains papers about topics such as demonstratives and adpositions in Lutuv as well as a Swadesh list for Nuitah Zophei.

Volume 3 is a special volume dedicated to squibs about various topics in Lutuv, such as the consonant and vowel inventories, negation, and verbal morphology, which have arisen from the Lutuv field methods course in 21/22. As of November 2022, this volume is being regularly updated with new articles.

Field methods & field linguistics with languages spoken in the Indianapolis Chin Community

Field linguistics is a type of research and data collection which consists of working in collaboration with speakers of the language being investigated. At Indiana University, the linguistics department offers a field methods course composed of both graduate and undergraduate students to teach the fundamentals of how to conduct “fieldwork”. In Spring and Fall 2018, the language of investigation was Hakha Lai. In Spring 2020, as well as in Fall 2021/Spring 2022, the language was Lutuv.