Doctoral Dissertation Research: Language Contact and Change in J & K Burushaski

博士论文研究：J中的语言接触与变化

• 批准号: 0418333
• 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: 2004-08-01 至 2006-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0418333&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Language; Contact

Under the supervision of Dr. Anthony Woodbury, Ms. Sadaf Munshi will conduct fieldwork in India on Burushaski for her doctoral dissertation. This research project studies the influence of neighboring languages, Kashmiri and Urdu, on the variety of Burushaski (JKB) spoken in Jammu and Kashmir in India. The study will produce a linguistic description of this undocumented dialect; a sociolinguistic description of the JKB speech community; and a historical linguistic analysis identifying the borrowings and other historical innovations that distinguish JKB from the Burushaski dialects of Pakistan. It will also explore the ways in which JKB retains features from earlier forms of Burushaski that were lost elsewhere. The study will be done primarily from a text-and-discourse-centered approach which aims to deepen the understanding of the language-culture-society relationship.The data will be digitally recorded on audio- and videotapes for analysis and archiving. By providing an archived corpus of data, the project will provide linguists and anthropologists with a significant corpus for analysis both during and after the project term. It is part of a broader effort to document the world's endangered linguistic diversity, for which Burushaski holds special importance since it is a language isolate, that is, it is not provably related to any other known language or language family. The project will also study social factors that affect both the maintenance of JKB up to now in India, as well as its future prospects. This helps sociolinguists understand the general processes at work in language change, as well as the specific situations that lead to the loss of linguistic diversity. Finally, the documentation and analysis produced by this study will contribute to community efforts at language preservation and maintenance.

在安东尼·伍德伯里（Anthony Woodbury）博士的监督下，萨达夫·蒙西（Sadaf Munshi）女士将在印度的burushaski进行博士学位论文。该研究项目研究了邻近语言，克什米尔和乌尔都语对查mu和印度克什米尔讲话的Burushaski（JKB）的影响。这项研究将对这种无证方言产生语言描述； JKB演讲社区的社会语言描述；以及一项历史性的语言分析，确定了将JKB与巴基斯坦的Burushaski方言区分开来的借款和其他历史创新。它还将探讨JKB保留在其他地方丢失的早期形式的Burushaski的特征。这项研究将主要是从以文本和文本为中心的方法来完成的，该方法旨在加深对语言社会关系的理解。数据将在音频和录像带上进行数字记录，以进行分析和归档。通过提供存档的数据语料库，该项目将为语言学家和人类学家提供在项目期间和之后进行大量分析的重要语料库。记录世界上濒临灭绝的语言多样性的更广泛努力的一部分，由于它是一种语言孤立，也就是说，它与任何其他已知的语言或语言家族无关。该项目还将研究影响到现在在印度的JKB及其未来前景的社会因素。这有助于社会语言学家了解语言变化方面的一般过程，以及导致语言多样性丧失的特定情况。 最后，本研究产生的文档和分析将有助于社区在语言保护和维护方面的努力。