Doctoral Dissertation Research: Investigating complex word reanalysis through endangered language data

博士论文研究：通过濒危语言数据研究复杂的单词重新分析

• 批准号: 1360783
• 负责人: Patience Epps
• 金额: $ 1.45万
• 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: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-08-01 至 2015-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1360783&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Investigating; complex

The Documenting Endangered Languages Program seeks to discover unique linguistic phenomena that are in danger of being lost as communities cease to speak their traditional languages in favor of world varieties. Unusual typological features found in endangered languages contribute to an accurate understanding of the limits and possibilities of human language, thus documenting the languages where this data is evidenced is of prime importance. In the large majority of the world's languages it is impossible for prefixes or suffixes to be separated from their host words to form independent words. Working under the direction of Patience Epps at the University of Texas at Austin, Adam Tallman will conduct fieldwork on an endangered language to further investigate instances of this unique type of word reanalysis.Tallman will document Chacobo, an endangered Panoan language spoken by a few thousand people in the northern Bolivian Amazon. His findings will form the basis of his doctoral dissertation, a grammatical description of Chacobo with accompanying audio and video recordings. Chacobo is especially interesting for linguistic theory because of the unusual behavior of its morpho-syntactic processes such as the 'split-off' of tense and aspect morphemes and other functional morphology from an otherwise polysynthetic verb stem. Additionally, the Chacobo data will provide facts for comparative work in Amazonia and for theories about language change and the relationship between morphology and syntax. This is because Chacobo exhibits some grammatical features thought to occur in the Panoan parent language and not in linguistically related varieties. Therefore, Chacobo grammar will contribute to the investigation of the nature of earlier forms of the language and its development into modern varieties. Adam Tallman will also broaden participation in linguistic fieldwork by training community members in language documentation methodology. All products from this dissertation research will be archived and accessible at the Archive of Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the University of Texas at Austin.

记录濒危语言计划旨在发现独特的语言现象，这些现象随着社区不再讲传统语言而转而使用世界语言而面临消失的危险。在濒危语言中发现的不寻常的类型学特征有助于准确理解人类语言的局限性和可能性，因此记录有这些数据证据的语言至关重要。 在世界上绝大多数语言中，前缀或后缀不可能与其主词分开以形成独立的词。 Adam Tallman 在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校 Patience Epps 的指导下，将对一种濒临灭绝的语言进行实地考察，以进一步调查这种独特类型的单词重新分析的实例。Tallman 将记录 Chacobo，一种有数千人使用的濒临灭绝的帕诺安语玻利维亚亚马逊北部的人们。他的研究结果将构成他的博士论文的基础，该论文是对 Chacobo 的语法描述，并附有音频和视频记录。 Chacobo 对于语言学理论特别有趣，因为它的形态句法过程具有不寻常的行为，例如时态和体语素以及其他功能形态与其他多合成动词词干的“分裂”。此外，查科博数据将为亚马逊地区的比较工作以及有关语言变化以及形态和句法之间关系的理论提供事实。这是因为查科博语表现出一些被认为出现在帕诺语母语中的语法特征，而不是在语言相关的变体中出现的语法特征。 因此，查科博语法将有助于研究该语言早期形式的本质及其向现代变体的发展。 Adam Tallman 还将通过对社区成员进行语言文献方法培训来扩大对语言实地工作的参与。本论文研究的所有产品都将在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的拉丁美洲土著语言档案馆存档并可供访问。