We Can’t Stem the Tide of Language Death
Laura McPherson on the importance of documenting endangered languages before they vanish.
Laura McPherson is an assistant professor of Linguistics at Dartmouth College and a 2017 Public Voices Fellow. She published the second full grammatical description of a Dogon language, A Grammar of Tommo So (2013), and is currently conducting field work in Burkina Faso.
Laura McPherson on the importance of documenting endangered languages before they vanish.