Doctoral Dissertation Research: A reference grammar of Potawatomi, A Native American language

博士论文研究：美洲原住民语言波塔瓦托米语的参考语法

• 批准号: 1562774
• 负责人: Monica Macaulay
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-06-01 至 2018-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1562774&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; reference; grammar

The essential elements that constitute the minimal scientific documentation of a language include a reference grammar, a dictionary, and transcribed narratives with translations and linguistic analysis. Reference grammars constitute a more comprehensive, highly detailed set of explanations and involve extensive linguistic analysis, so often the initial preliminary attempts at describing a language's patterns result in a short description known as a "sketch," with a later publication of a reference grammar following subsequent scientific research. In some cases, linguists develop the sketch but never circle back to publish that reference grammar, creating a large gap in the documentation. This is the case for numerous languages that were described and analyzed in the first half of the twentieth century, including Potawatomi (also called Bodéwadmimwen or Bodwéwadmimwen), a critically endangered Algonquian language. The Native American Languages Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1990, enacted into policy the recognition of the unique status and importance of Native American languages. It is estimated that there are less than 10 fluent native speakers of Potawatomi today, all elderly. Considerable effort is being made towards language revitalization, but materials for training advanced speakers are in short supply. This project will fund dissertation research that will produce a reference grammar for Potawatomi. Broader impacts of the project include making the planned documentation will be useful to both linguists and community members, by producing an example-driven, digital presentation version of the grammar for language teachers and students.In this dissertation project, doctoral student Hunter Lockwood will research and produce the first grammar of Potawatomi since Charles Hockett's 1939 sketch of the language in his own dissertation. Data from Hockett are often cited in theoretical linguistics; this dissertation will add depth and breadth to the contribution the language can make to linguistic science. For example, almost no work has been done on Potawatomi syntax or semantics; this dissertation will fill those gaps in the documentary record. This reflects the continued collaboration between the Forest County Potawatomi Community and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Previous collaboration between these two institutions, also with funding from the National Science Foundation's Documenting Endangered Languages Program, has resulted in a bilingual dictionary and a corpus of transcribed stories and natural speech. As a result, the dissertation research will utilize methods relying on modern digital tools for building and analyzing large sets of language data collected in a corpus, integrating data from the corpus and dictionary in the analysis.

构成语言的最基本的科学文献的基本要素包括参考语法、词典以及带有翻译和语言分析的转录叙述。参考语法构成了一套更全面、更详细的解释，并涉及广泛的语言分析，因此通常是。描述语言模式的最初初步尝试会产生一个被称为“草图”的简短描述，随后的科学研究之后会发布参考语法。在某些情况下，语言学家会开发草图，但从未回过头来发布该参考语法。 ，造成很大的差距二十世纪上半叶描述和分析的许多语言都是这种情况，包括波塔瓦托米语（也称为 Bodéwadmimwen 或 Bodwéwadmimwen），一种极度濒危的阿尔冈昆语言。 1990 年美国国会通过，将承认美洲原住民语言的独特地位和重要性纳入政策。据估计，流利的美洲原住民语言不到 10 种。如今，波塔瓦托米语的使用者都是老年人，我们正在为语言复兴做出巨大努力，但培训高级使用者的材料却供不应求。该项目将资助为波塔瓦托米语提供参考语法的论文研究，包括制定更广泛的影响。通过为语言教师和学生制作示例驱动的语法数字演示版本，计划的文档将对语言学家和社区成员都有用。 在本论文项目中，博士生 Hunter Lockwood 将研究并制作第一个语法Potawatomi 自 1939 年 Charles Hockett 在他自己的论文中对语言的概述以来，理论语言学中经常引用 Hockett 的数据；这篇论文将增加语言对语言科学的贡献的深度和广度。关于波塔瓦托米语法或语义的研究；这篇论文将填补文献记录中的这些空白，这反映了森林县波塔瓦托米社区和威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校之间的持续合作。这些机构还得到了国家科学基金会濒危语言记录计划的资助，制作了一本双语词典以及一个转录故事和自然语音的语料库，因此，论文研究将利用依赖现代数字工具的方法来构建。分析语料库中收集的大量语言数据，在分析中整合语料库和词典中的数据。