Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Descriptive Grammar of the Mosuo Language of Southwestern China

博士论文研究：西南摩梭语描述语法

• 批准号: 0345862
• 负责人: Anthony Woodbury
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-03-01 至 2007-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0345862&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Descriptive; Grammar

Under the supervision of Dr. Anthony Woodbury, Ms. Liberty Lidz will collect linguistic data on Mosuo for her doctoral dissertation. Mosuo is an endangered Sino-Tibetan language with roughly 40,000 speakers spoken in southwestern China. Mandarin is increasingly being spoken instead of Mosuo, particularly among children and people involved in the new tourist economy. The main research methodologies will be (i) the elicitation of syntactic, phonological, and lexical data, and (ii) the audio and video recording of naturally-occuring speech. Under the guidance of Dr. Woodbury, Ms. Lidz will analyze these data and produce a grammar, dictionary, and transcriptions of oral texts.The dissertation will provide a grammar of a virtually undocumented language, from a family about which the world has little data. Linguists want to understand what is common about all language as well as what unusual things can occur in a language. Data on Mosuo will help linguists to understand both of these. The Mosuo grammar (with sections translated into Chinese and glosses in Mosuo) will be an invaluable resource for native speakers. The audio and video recordings will provide an archive of speech patterns and cultural information such as folktales, information which is useful for native speakers, linguists, anthropologists, historians, and sociologists. Lidz will also work with the Mosuo to create language teaching materials for community use. Language is a central part of culture and as such, it is crucial to document minority languages before they disappear, and to create pedagogical materials to deter language loss.

在 Anthony Woodbury 博士的指导下，Liberty Lidz 女士将为她的博士论文收集有关摩梭语的语言数据。摩梭语是一种濒临灭绝的汉藏语言，在中国西南部约有 40,000 人使用摩梭语。人们越来越多地使用普通话代替摩梭语，特别是在儿童和参与新旅游经济的人们中。主要研究方法是（i）句法、语音和词汇数据的引出，以及（ii）自然发生的语音的音频和视频记录。在伍德伯里博士的指导下，利兹女士将分析这些数据并制作语法、词典和口语文本转录。该论文将提供一种几乎没有记录的语言的语法，该语言来自一个世界上几乎没有数据的语系。 语言学家想要了解所有语言的共同点以及语言中可能发生的异常情况。有关摩梭人的数据将有助于语言学家理解这两点。摩梭语法（其中部分内容被翻译成中文，注释为摩梭语）对于母语人士来说将是宝贵的资源。音频和视频记录将提供语音模式和文化信息（例如民间故事）的档案，这些信息对母语人士、语言学家、人类学家、历史学家和社会学家有用。利兹还将与摩梭人合作制作供社区使用的语言教材。 语言是文化的核心部分，因此，在少数民族语言消失之前对其进行记录并创建教学材料以防止语言消失至关重要。