LACITO
{{Short description|French multidisciplinary research organization}}
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|native_name = Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale
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|established = 1976
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|type = Public
|affiliation = CNRS
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|director = Cécile Leguy
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|faculty = 24
|administrative_staff = 5
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|doctoral = 15
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|city = Villejuif
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|province = Ile-de-France
|country = France
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LACITO (Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale) is a multidisciplinary research organisation, principally devoted to the study of cultures and languages of oral tradition.
LACITO is a branch of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the principal network of researchers in France. It is thus occasionally referred to as LACITO–CNRS or CNRS–LACITO.
Scientific activities
Created in 1976 by André-Georges Haudricourt, LACITO is specialized in the description, documentation and analysis of under-documented languages of the world. The members of LACITO are linguists and linguistic anthropologists.
The main perspective adopted by LACITO’s researchers is that of language typology, as linguistic structures are compared in search of universals, yet with special attention to their diversity. Besides language documentation and grammatical description, research at LACITO also includes historical linguistics, lexicography, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, verbal art and cultural diversity.
An important contribution of LACITO is the Pangloss Collection, for the preservation of valuable audio archives in the world's endangered languages.
Language expertise
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Linguistic research at LACITO involves fieldwork in various language families, including:See a comprehensive list on [http://lacito.cnrs.fr/ALC/listeparfamille_en.htm LACITO's homepage], and [https://lacito.hypotheses.org/language-map the map of languages studied at LACITO].
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- Otomanguean
- Eskimo–Aleut
- Finno-Ugric
- Indo-European (Romance,
Slavic, {{nowrap|Indo-Aryan}}…) - Caucasian languages ({{nowrap|Nakh-Daghestanian}}, Kartvelian)
- Afro-Asiatic (Semitic, Berber)
- Nilo-Saharan
- {{nowrap|Niger-Congo}}
- Dravidian
- {{nowrap|Sino-Tibetan}}, {{nowrap|Tibeto-Burman}}
- Austroasiatic, {{nowrap|Mon-Khmer}}
- Austronesian, Oceanic.
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Domains of research
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- Descriptive linguistics
- Language documentation
- Phonology, morphosyntax, semantics
- Language typology
- Historical and comparative linguistics
- Linguistic anthropology
- Oral literature and folklore
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Notes
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External links
- [http://lacito.cnrs.fr/index_en.htm Homepage of LACITO] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211206175746/https://lacito.cnrs.fr/index_en.htm |date=2021-12-06 }}.
- [https://lacito.hypotheses.org/language-map Map of languages studied at LACITO]
- [http://lacito.cnrs.fr/pratique/structure_admin_en.htm Who’s who at LACITO]
- [https://lacito.hypotheses.org/ Les Carnets du LACITO] (LACITO's blog)
- [https://pangloss.cnrs.fr/?lang=en Homepage of the Pangloss Collection]
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Category:Linguistics organizations
Category:French National Centre for Scientific Research
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