AGENCY: National Science Foundation (NSF)/ Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)/ Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Science/ National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)/ Smithsonian Institution PROGRAM: Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) – An Interagency Partnership OBJECTIVES: This program provides funding for fellowships and standard grants to develop and advance scientific and scholarly knowledge concerning endangered human languages. Because of the imminent death of an estimated half of the 6000-7000 currently used human languages, DEL seeks not only to document endangered languages but to integrate, systematize, and make knowledge concerning them widely available by exploiting advances in information technology. Funding will support fieldwork and other activities relevant to recording, documenting, and archiving endangered languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases. Projects may involve one or more of the following activities:
ELIGIBILITY RESTRICTIONS: Undergraduate student participants supported with NSF funds must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States or its possessions. An undergraduate student is one who is enrolled in a degree program (part-time or full-time) leading to a baccalaureate or associates degree. High school graduates who have not yet enrolled, and students who have received their bachelor's degrees and are no longer enrolled as undergraduates, are not eligible. DEADLINE: September 15, 2009 FUNDING INFORMATION: he NSF anticipates the availability of $2 million ($1 million from NSF and $1 million for NEH) to support six to ten standard or continuing grants and twelve fellowships. Standard and continuing grants will be supported at a level of $12,000 to $150,000 per year for one to three years. Fellowships will be supported at $24,000 for six to eight month tenure or $40,000 for nine to twelve month tenure. Approximately two to four standard grants and all fellowships will be supported by NEH allocated funds. Proposers of projects identified for NEH funding will be asked to withdraw their proposals from NSF and resubmit them to NEH. All other DEL awards will be funded and administered by NSF. The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History will invite some Fellows and personnel from some funded projects that are particularly concerned with language materials held by the Smithsonian to use the Museum as a research base. AGENCY CONTACT: REMARKS: The Title of the proposed project should identify the specific language(s) it concerns by using the three-letter SIL codes, if possible. See http://www.ethnologue.com/codes/ NO more that three SIL codes should be used in a project title. In addition to the title requirements, the summary of the proposed project should identify the most general family(ies) to which the specific language(s) belong. Applications must be submitted electronically using either the NSF FastLane system or Grants.gov. Collaborative proposals must be submitted via FastLane. For more information about FastLane, or to register as a FastLane user, please contact Kathleen Foster in the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) at x3-4365 orkfoster@bu.edu. Information about Grants.gov for BU Investigators can be obtained on the OSP website at:http://www.bu.edu/osp/pdf/Grantsgovinfo.pdf. In addition, for investigators interested in submitting proposals via Grants.gov, NSF has published the NSF Grants.gov Application Guide which may be found online at: http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/docs/grantsgovguide.pdf. Investigators should contact the OSP Assistant Director assigned to their school or department as soon as possible to coordinate submission through either FastLane or Grants.gov. Complete program guidelines and application material (NSF 06-577 and NSF GPG 09-29) may be obtained from the web site listed above or from the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP). Please distribute this notice to any faculty or staff members who might be interested in the information. For more information, please contact the OSP at X3-4365 or ospinfo@bu.edu, or visit the OSP web site athttp://www.bu.edu/osp.
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