Opportunity Information: Apply for 19 607
The National Science Foundation (NSF) grant opportunity titled "Linguistics: Dynamic Language Infrastructure - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants" (Funding Opportunity Number 19-607) supports doctoral students whose dissertation research helps build what NSF calls dynamic language infrastructure (DLI). In practical terms, this means creating high-quality, usable language resources that strengthen the long-term study of human language. The program is especially focused on documentation and preservation work that does more than just collect data; funded projects should also connect that documentation to linguistic theory or otherwise advance how linguists understand language. A major priority is work on endangered human languages, particularly those that are understudied and at risk of no longer being used.
The core idea behind DLI is to improve the systems and materials that future researchers will rely on: recordings, annotated corpora, searchable databases, well-structured lexicons, grammars, and curated archives. NSF is also explicitly interested in modern approaches to language infrastructure, including digitization strategies and newer computational methods that make language data easier to record, organize, analyze, and preserve over time. The expectation is that the resulting products will be more than temporary dissertation materials; they should contribute to durable data management and archiving practices that other scholars can build on, while also enabling new kinds of linguistic analysis.
Funding is provided through Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (DDRIs), which are designed to enhance a PhD dissertation project rather than fully fund a doctoral program. These awards can support up to 24 months of dissertation-related research activities. While the solicitation does not list a fixed award ceiling in the provided source data, it notes an expectation of around 15 awards. Proposals are accepted on an ongoing basis (no single annual deadline is specified in the source text), which typically allows applicants to submit when their dissertation planning and fieldwork timelines are ready.
The types of supported costs and activities align with hands-on language documentation and digital infrastructure building. That can include fieldwork for digital audio and video recording, transcription and annotation, elicitation sessions, and community-based collection of narratives or conversational data. It can also include work directly tied to producing structured deliverables such as dictionaries or lexicons, reference grammars, curated text collections, and interoperable databases. In addition to collecting and preparing data, the program emphasizes proper archiving and long-term preservation, meaning applicants should be prepared to show how materials will be organized, documented (with appropriate metadata), and deposited so that they remain accessible and valuable beyond the dissertation itself.
Administratively, this is a discretionary NSF grant opportunity in the Science and Technology and other Research and Development category, associated with CFDA numbers 47.050 and 47.075. Eligibility is listed broadly as "Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification)," which signals that specific eligibility requirements are detailed in the full solicitation (typically covering doctoral status, institutional sponsorship, and proposal submission rules). Overall, the opportunity is aimed at developing the next generation of researchers who can responsibly create, manage, and analyze language archives, while producing concrete, reusable documentation resources that strengthen linguistic science and help safeguard endangered languages.Apply for 19 607
- The National Science Foundation in the science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Linguistics: Dynamic Language Infrastructure-Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 47.050, 47.075.
- This funding opportunity was created on Sep 22, 2019.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Proposals accepted anytime. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 15 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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