Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Interaction of Transitivity Alternations and Verbal Affix Stacking in a Morphologically Complex Language

博士论文研究：形态复杂语言中及物性交替与动词词缀堆叠的相互作用

• 批准号: 1918028
• 负责人: Patience Epps
• 金额: $ 1.89万
• 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: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-07-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1918028&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Interaction; Transitivity

All languages have ways to indicate who did what to whom, and grammatically different strategies offer different perspectives on an event. For example, if Pat is reaching for a cookie, for example, we might expect Pat's mother to say "Pat broke the jar". However, Pat might prefer to say "The jar broke", or even "My sister made me break the jar". In other words, Pat might choose a grammatical strategy that obscures the breaker and the broken object (the two participants in the event) for a reason like avoiding punishment. Such changes in the expression of participants are known as valence alternations. While probably all languages have strategies to manipulate valence, they vary in how they do this: which participants can be added or subtracted, in what conditions, and with what linguistic resources. To achieve the deepest understanding of how this works, linguists must investigate languages which vary significantly from English, including languages which use a greater number of suffixes and prefixes on verbs. This project will contribute to these questions through an exploration of valence alternations in an as yet understudied indigenous South American language, Mocoví, which unlike English displays highly complex verbal morphology. Broader impacts will include the training of community members and undergraduate students in linguistic documentation and description, the creation of community pedagogical resources, and the training of a dissertation student. The corpus will be accessible to scholars and the general public via the Archive of Indigenous Languages of Latin America. More broadly, this work contributes to the scholarship on Argentina's indigenous cultural heritage. By supporting indigenous language maintenance through activities such as the preparation of illustrated booklets for Mocoví primary schools, this project will also continue the strong binational ties between Argentina and the U.S. in the areas of educational and scientific collaboration. In particular, this research will benefit from the close cooperation between the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (Argentina) and The University of Texas at Austin (U.S.).This project provides an in-depth investigation of valence alternations in the central-northern variety of Mocoví [moc], an underexplored Guaycuruan language spoken in northeastern Argentina. Linguists still have much to understand regarding how the manipulation of participants interacts with other aspects of a language's grammar, and how these resources develop over time. Where in English, speakers tend to add words like "make" to increase valence, languages with complex verbal morphology, like Mocoví, often leverage different resources, such as combinations of verbal affixes. Mocoví's valence-adjusting mechanisms involve the stacking of verbal suffixes according to strategies that are very different from those seen in well-studied European languages. Fieldwork will be carried out by a local team formed by two Mocoví community members and the co-PI, a doctoral student at The University of Texas at Austin, and will create a robust corpus of naturalistic speech across discourse types, together with elicited data focusing on transitivity alternations. The integrated exploration of both types of data allows assessment of possible differences in transitivity-related phenomena across genre, style, etc., among other questions. The corpus will also provide an important data set for further work on Mocoví, including the exploration of dialectal differences and their social and linguistic motivations within this region of intense language contact.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

所有语言都有方法来指示谁对谁做了什么，而语法上不同的策略为事件提供了不同的观点。例如，如果帕特（Pat）伸手去拿饼干，我们可能会希望帕特（Pat）的母亲说“帕特（Pat）打破了罐子”。但是，帕特可能更喜欢说“罐子破裂”，甚至更喜欢“我姐姐让我打破罐子”。换句话说，帕特可能会选择一种语法策略，该策略掩盖了断路器和破碎的对象（事件中的两个参与者），例如避免惩罚。 参与者表达的这种变化称为价交替。尽管所有语言可能都有操纵价值的策略，但它们在这样做的方式上有所不同：可以在哪种条件下以及在哪些语言资源下添加或减去哪些参与者。为了对其运作的最深刻了解，语言学家必须研究与英语有很大不同的语言，包括使用更多的后缀和前缀动词的语言。该项目将通过探索尚未研究的南美本地语言Mocov; Mocov＆＃237;的价值交替的探索来促进这些问题，这与英语不同地显示了高度复杂的言语形态。更广泛的影响将包括在语言文档和描述中对社区成员和本科生的培训，社区教学资源的创造以及论文学生的培训。学者和公众将通过拉丁美洲的土著语言档案访问该语料库。更广泛地说，这项工作为阿根廷土著文化遗产的奖学金做出了贡献。通过通过准备Mocov的插图小册子等活动来支持土著语言维护。小学，该项目还将在教育和科学合作领域继续在阿根廷与美国之间建立牢固的双性关系。特别是，这项研究将受益于美国奥斯汀大学（美国）（美国）德克萨斯大学（Argentina）大学的密切合作。该项目提供了对中部北方北部Mocov＆＃237＆＃237＆＃237; [MOC]，在阿根廷东北部使用的一种未充满激光的Guaycuruan语言。语言学家关于参与者的操纵如何与语言语法的其他方面以及这些资源如何随着时间的推移发展而言，仍然有很多了解。在英语中，说话者倾向于添加诸如“ make”之类的单词以增加价，具有复杂的语言形态的语言，例如Mocov＆＃237;通常会利用不同的资源，例如言语词句的组合。 Mocov的价调整机制涉及根据与经过良好研究的欧洲语言截然不同的策略堆叠口头后缀。现场工作将由由两个Mocov组成的本地团队进行。社区成员和Co-Pi是德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的博士生，并将在跨话语类型上创造出强大的自然主义演讲语料库，以及针对传播交替的引起的数据。对两种类型数据的综合探索允许评估各种流派，样式等与传递性相关现象的可能差异，以及其他问题。该语料库还将提供一个重要的数据集，以在Mocov上进行进一步的工作，包括探索方言差异及其在这一强烈语言接触区域内的社会和语言动机。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并认为通过基金会的智力和更广泛的影响，通过评估来进行评估。

项目成果

Relaciones flexibles en mocoví (guaycurú): morfología y léxico

Relaciones flexions en mocovà (guaycurào): morfologà y léxico

• DOI: 10.56683/rs222135
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: RASAL Lingüística
• 作者: Juárez, Cristian