Doctoral Dissertation Research: Language Contact in a Southern Basque Town

博士论文研究：巴斯克南部城镇的语言接触

基本信息

批准号：
0317842
负责人：
John Singler
金额：
$ 0.6万
依托单位：
New York University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2003
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2003-09-01 至 2004-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0317842&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Doctoral Dissertation Research Language Contact

项目摘要

Under the direction of Dr. John Singler, Mr. William Haddican will conduct fieldwork for his doctoral dissertation. He will interview residents of the Basque town of Oiartzun in the local language, Basque. This research will investigate whether important social changes in the Southern Basque Country over the last two centuries have led to grammatical change in local Basque dialects. Mr. Haddican will use quantitative methods to assess the influences of Spanish and Batua, the new linguistic standard, on the local dialect. He will also study how the linguistic practices of speakers are connected with their identities, language attitudes, and the sociopolitical context of the contemporary Basque Country. The present study capitalizes on a rare opportunity to study the effects of standardization on language at the earliest stages. This project will contribute to the understanding of social constraints on grammatical borrowing. The project is also of practical relevance to Basque language planning efforts, in that it explores how local dialects are changing and what social factors bear on these processes of change. A more thorough understanding of these processes may inform current language planning strategies in the schools and the media, and thereby contribute to efforts to preserve linguistic diversity more generally. The results of this study will be made available both on-line and in Basque and international print publications.

在约翰·辛格尔（John Singler）博士的指导下，威廉·哈迪斯（William Haddican）先生将进行博士学位论文的实地调查。他将以当地语言巴斯克（Basque）采访巴斯克镇Oiartzun的居民。这项研究将调查过去两个世纪以来巴斯克地区南部国家的重要社会变化是否导致了当地巴斯克方言的语法变化。 Haddican先生将使用定量方法评估新的语言标准西班牙语和Batua对本地方言的影响。他还将研究说话者的语言实践如何与当代巴斯克国家的身份，语言态度和社会政治背景联系在一起。本研究利用了一个难得的机会，可以在最早的阶段研究标准化对语言的影响。该项目将有助于理解有关语法借用的社会约束。该项目与巴斯克语言规划工作的实际相关性也是如此，因为它探讨了当地方言的变化以及社会因素在这些变化过程中的影响。对这些过程的更透彻的理解可能会为学校和媒体的当前语言规划策略提供信息，从而为更普遍地保护语言多样性做出了贡献。这项研究的结果将在线和巴斯克和国际印刷出版物中提供。