Research Projects
Recent Research Grant Awards
Researcher: Dr. Chris Krägeloh (2008)
Institution: Auckland University of Technology
Project Title: Revitalization of Te Reo Maori: Lessons from Research in Interlinguistics. The goal of the research is to investigate the extent to which language revitalization of Te Reo Maori can benefit from the already existing literature in interlinguistics.
Grant Award: $6,000
Researcher: Antjie Krog (2008)
Institution: The Center for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University
Project: ESF provided a grant in the amount of $10,000 to the Center for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University for a residency by Afrikaans poet Antjie Krog in connection with the Center’s interest in translation. This was the foundation's fourth award to the Center.
Grant Award: $10,000
Researcher: Dr. Probal Dasgupta (2008)
Institution: Indian Statistical Institute
Project: ESF awarded Dr. Dasgupta a travel grant which allowed him to continue work on his project Developing a Kernel-Theoretic Approach to Lexicography.
Grant Award: $5,000
Researcher: Dr. Nergis Erturk (2006)
Institution: The Center for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University
Project Title: Missed Encounters: Modernity and the Crisis of Language. An investigation of a linguistic crisis in western European and Turkish literary modernism during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Grant Award: $10,000
Researcher: Dr. Sho Konishi (2006)
Institution: formerly at the University of Illinois and now at Oxford University
Project Title: The Emergence of the Esperanto Movement in Japan: Interlingualism and the Vision of Cooperatist Anarchist Modernity.
Grant Award: $10,000
Researcher: Dr. Thomas Cooper (2005)
Institution: formerly at The Center for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University and now at the Academia Hungarica in Budapest
Project Title: An investigation of the role of translation in the (re)creation of a transnational literary consciousness in the linguistically diverse region of Central Europe.
Grant Award: $10,000
Researcher: Dr. Nancy Nicholson (2005)
Institution: University of Delaware
Project Title: Linguistic Human Rights for Ethnic Minorities: Language Planning for Interpreting Services at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and Implications for the International Criminal Court (ICC) as well as Future International Tribunals.
Grant Award: $10,000
Researcher: Dr. Aleksandr Melnikov (2000 - 2001)
Project Title: An investigation of the ways that the culture of the Esperanto speech community is reflected in Esperanto texts, especially those in the various literary genres. Dr. Melnikov's research is based on analyses of hundreds of original books and articles in Esperanto and includes consideration of aspects of language such as word play, phraseology, literary allusions and institutional knowledge. This research study was published in Russian in late 2003; an abridged Esperanto version was also published in 2004.
Grant Award: $8,500
Researchers: Dr. Alvino E. Fantini & Dr. Timothy G. Reagan
Project: Esperanto and Education: Toward a Research Agenda
Interlinguistics Support Fund
Fund Manager: Dr. Detlev Blanke
Projects: Grants awarded in 2008 included funding to Alexander Korjhenkov for his projected biography of Zamenhof, and support for the creation of a museum of Esperanto in the Czech town of Česká Třebová, to provide exhibition space for the large collection of Esperanto materials already housed in the town library. The Czech grant helped leverage additional public funds. A similar initiative approved in 2007 but funded in 2008 supported the publication of the catalogue of the Fajszi Collection at the National Library of Foreign Literature, Budapest. Also in 2008 a grant to the University of Poznan (Ilona Koutny) supported a symposium and publication on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the university’s Interlinguistics Program.
Book Projects
There are a number of ESF-related book projects currently underway; one in the series Studies in World Language Problems, one involving the Nitobe symposium in Vilnius, and several others in which ESF Board members may participate.