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NEWSCLS Newsletter for April to June 2010The new addition of the newsletter has now been published and made available Newsletter April to June Older editions of the newsletter can be found at here 2009-10-28: The final report for the language mapping survey of central and southern Malawi is now available online: The final report for the language mapping survey of northern Malawi is now available online: Jean Chavula has been admitted to the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Her dissertation topic is Verbal derivation in Tumbuka using HPSG. Her promotor at LUCL is Prof. Maarten Mous. CLS NEWSLETTER NOW AVAILABLEThe most recent edition of the CLS Newsletter (July-September) can be found in this pdf document. The editorial staff of CLS Newsletter wish to inform all staff members and all our readers that the CLS Newsletter for April -June 2009 is now out. The newsletter can be accessed by clicking the link below or as a pdf-document: CLS NEWSLETTERNEWS: The Computer "Wizard" Returns to Malawi. Dr Daniel Ridings, the Computational Linguist behind MaLex Project returns to Malawi on his second tour of duty. He arrives in Malawi on 12th February 2009 through Lilongwe. During this visit Dr Ridings is expected to continue with technical training in Modern computational lexicography at the Centre for Language Studies under the Malawi Lexicon Project (Malex). He is also expected to focus on the two dictionary projects for Ciyawo and Citumbuka which are at lemma entry stage. Takulandirani wawa! NEWS: CLS Holds Dissemination Conference on Language and HIV and AIDSThe Centre for Language Studies held a four day disseminatin conference on Language and HIV and AIDS from 28th to 31st February at Hippo View Lodge, Liwonde. The conference held under the theme "Empowering Local Languages in Responding to HIV and AIDS", was held to disseminate findings of a study the Centre conducted in 2006 to assess the impact of HIV and AIDS IEC Materials among the Youth in Malawi. About thirty research based papers were presented at the conference which was officially opened by the Principal Secretary in the Office of the President and Cabinet responsible for Nutrition and HIV and AIDS, Dr Mary Shawa. The papers focused on various subthemes such as "The Role of Local languages in HIV and AIDS Advocacy, The Youth and Language in HIV and AIDS Education, Languages, Stigma and HIV and AIDS, Minority languages and HIV and AIDS Advocacy Campaigns etc. The study as well as the conference were funded by the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) which was represented at the conference by Ms Beauty Mbewu, the Programme Assistant for Language Rights Fellowship. CLS thanks OSISA for its continued support to the Centre. |