LACITO

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 – C.N.R.S.
Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale
TypePublic
Established1976
AffiliationCNRS
DirectorAlexis Michaud
Academic staff
28
Administrative staff
5
36
Location,
Ile-de-France
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Websitehttp://lacito.vjf.cnrs.fr

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

The world’s language families.

Linguistic research at LACITO involves fieldwork in various language families, including:[1]

Domains of research

Notes

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gollark: You're going to need very big groups to keep modern-or-better technology in production, though.
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gollark: Shelter, medicine, communication, lighting, human social interaction, etc.
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