French multidisciplinary research organization
LACITO (La ngues et Ci vilisations à T radition O ralecultures 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 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
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