Wilson de Lima Silva, Katherine J. Riestenberg

The papers in this special issue are the result of case studies on methods in language documentation, language conservation, and language reclamation in the Americas. These papers were first presented at the 6 th Symposium for American Indian Languages, held at the University of Ottawa, on April 13-14, 2018, jointly with the Workshop on the Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA). SAIL and WSCLA were funded by a Connection Grants (#611-2017-0613) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).1 The papers bring together unique, informed and relevant insights at the interface of several domains (language documentation, language conservation, and language reclamation, language assessment surveys), in which the focus is on Indigenous communities and their efforts to preserve and/or reclaim their language for the future generation of speakers.