Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Text-Based Grammar of Tulu

博士论文研究：基于文本的图鲁语语法

• 批准号: 0418516
• 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: 2004-09-01 至 2007-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0418516&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Text; Based

Under the supervision of Dr. Anthony Woodbury, Ms. Malavika Shetty will work towards documenting the Tulu language spoken in South India for her doctoral dissertation. Tulu is a Dravidian language largely spoken in the South Kannara region in the state of Karnataka in India. There are an estimated 1.5 million speakers of Tulu located in and around the South Kannara region. The main research methodologies that will be used for this project are (i) the analysis of texts based on audio and video recordings of historical, mythological, and religious narratives and folk songs that have been collected and archived at the Regional Resources Center for Folk Performing Arts in Karnataka (RRC) located in South Kannara; (ii) the analysis of audio and video recordings of naturally-occurring speech events; (iii) consultation with other native speakers. The product of the project will be a text-based grammar of the common dialect of Tulu. The dissertation will provide a description of the more widespread and relatively- unstudied common dialect of the language by using a textual and discourse-centered approach for data collection. The grammar produced by this project will provide valuable linguistic data to assess Tulu's place in the South Dravidian language family and will be useful for the reconstruction of Proto-Dravidian. The grammar will be accessible to native speakers, linguists, anthropologists, sociologists, educators, and curriculum planners and will provide a foundation on which to base future pedagogical materials that will aid in the preservation of the Tulu language. Since language is a central aspect of culture, documenting minority languages like Tulu and providing a basis for creating pedagogical materials are crucial for language maintenance.

在安东尼·伍德伯里（Anthony Woodbury）博士的监督下，马拉维卡·谢蒂（Malavika Shetty）女士将致力于记录印度南部所说的图卢语语言。图卢（Tulu）是印度卡纳塔克邦（Karnataka）南卡纳拉（South Kannara）地区的德拉维语语言。估计有150万个Tulu的发言人位于南卡纳拉地区及其周围。该项目将使用的主要研究方法是（i）基于在地区民间表演区域资源中心收集和存档的历史，神话和宗教叙事和民间歌曲的音频和视频记录的文本分析位于南卡纳拉的卡纳塔克邦（RRC）的艺术； （ii）自然播音事件的音频和视频录制的分析； （iii）与其他母语人士进行协商。该项目的产物将是图卢公共方言的基于文本的语法。本文将通过使用以文本和话语为中心的数据收集方法来描述语言的更广泛和相对未被研究的语言。该项目产生的语法将提供有价值的语言数据，以评估Tulu在南达拉维式语言家族中的地位，并将有助于重建原始Dravidian。以母语者，语言学家，人类学家，社会学家，教育工作者和课程规划师为基础，将语法访问，并将为未来的教学材料提供基础，以帮助保存图鲁语。由于语言是文化的主要方面，因此记录像图鲁这样的少数语言并为创建教学材料提供基础对于语言维护至关重要。