Northwestern Tungus Language/Dialect Continuum

西北通古斯语言/方言连续体

• 批准号: 9710091
• 负责人: Lenore Grenoble
• 金额: $ 19.49万
• 依托单位: Dartmouth College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-08-01 至 2002-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9710091&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Northwestern; Tungus; Language; Dialect; Continuum

This project is designed to gather, organize and analyze data from the Northwestern Tungusic languages: Oroqen, Evenki, Negidal, and Solon. The languages, which are spoken in northern China and Siberian Russia, are not well- documented and all are seriously endangered. Therefore, a primary goal of the project is to collect information about the structure of the languages while they are still spoken. This information will be derived through recordings of the languages and elicitation sessions with native speakers. The geographic distribution of the Northwestern Tungusic languages has hampered comparative work on them in the past. Russian linguists and Chinese linguists who have engaged in fieldwork on these languages have had little scholarly dialogue. An important aspect of our research involves bringing together the work of our Russian and Chinese colleagues. The actual genetic relationships among these four languages and their relationships to other Tungusic languages are unclear. On the basis of the data we collect, we can provide a more accurate assessment of the genetic affiliations within the language family. We will also conduct tests of mutual intelligibility using recordings of narrative texts. The Northwestern Tungusic languages are being replaced by Russian, Chinese, and Yakut, all of which are genetically and typologically distinct. We aim at determining the kinds of structural changes the Tungusic languages are undergoing as they become obsolescent, with specific attention to the role of the three contact languages.

该项目旨在收集，组织和分析西北通道语言的数据：Oroqen，Evenki，Negidal和Solon。 这些语言在中国北部和西伯利亚俄罗斯说，这些语言并未得到充分记录，所有的语言都受到严重濒危。 因此，该项目的主要目标是在谈论这些语言的结构时收集有关它们的结构的信息。 该信息将通过与母语者的语言和启发会话的录音来得出。 过去，西北通道语言的地理分布阻碍了对它们的比较工作。 从事这些语言进行野外工作的俄罗斯语言学家和中国语言学家几乎没有学术对话。 我们研究的一个重要方面涉及将俄罗斯和中国同事的工作汇集在一起​​。 这四种语言之间的实际遗传关系及其与其他通牙语言的关系尚不清楚。 根据我们收集的数据，我们可以对语言家族中的遗传隶属关系进行更准确的评估。 我们还将使用叙事文本的录音进行相互清晰度的测试。西北通道语言被俄罗斯，中国人和雅库特所取代，所有这些语言在遗传和类型上都是与众不同的。我们的目的是确定通态语言在过时的情况下正在经历的结构变化，并特别注意三种接触语言的作用。