Implementing a linguistic database for analysis of an endangered language

实施语言数据库来分析濒危语言

• 批准号: 1951923
• 负责人: Bruce Nevin
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: Endangered Language Fund, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-06-01 至 2023-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1951923&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Implementing; linguistic; database; analysis; endangered

Modern technology allows for new ways of constructing infrastructure for linguistic analysis. 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, and this project undertakes this by developing an interactive database of an endangered language. The project builds on a database that includes records of words, stories, and songs of the last fluent speakers of the language as well as language information derived from archival records. Using newer technology, proper morphological and syntactic analysis is now possible, identifying the parts of words, the semantic contribution of each, and how they can (and cannot) be put together to make words. This is crucial for documenting this language (thereby making it available for future analysis) because most words, and all verbs, are complex, and the translations given for them are more specific and limited to the given context than is warranted by the meanings of their several parts. This research provides insights into how a language puts emphasis on what is easy or difficult or obligatory to communicate, and on how the structure of a language provides a scaffold upon which perceptions and goals are organized. This gives a window into different ways of thinking. The project will be invaluable to anyone examining relationships between languages in an area where many languages came into contact with each other, and also will highlight the linguistically unusual features of this language. For instance, morphemes are a challenge to identify in the language, and word formation is complex, with little formal understanding of how it works; with challenges for theories of word formation. The database will allow for the construction of new words, and the database will allow for better analysis. The lexicon will specify the constituent morphemes as well as words that are analyzable only etymologically or not at all, and the grammar will provide insight into how to construct complex verb stems as well as syntax in the familiar sense of combining words into phrases and sentences.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.

现代技术允许建造用于语言分析的基础架构的新方法。构成一种语言最少科学文档的基本要素包括参考语法，词典和带有翻译和语言分析的抄录叙述，并且该项目通过开发濒危语言的交互式数据库来实现这一目标。该项目建立在一个数据库上，其中包括该语言的最后流利扬声器的单词，故事和歌曲的记录以及从档案记录中得出的语言信息。使用较新的技术，现在可以使用适当的形态学和句法分析，确定单词的各个部分，每个单词的语义贡献，以及如何（也不能）将它们组合在一起以制作单词。这对于记录这种语言至关重要（从而使其可用于将来的分析），因为大多数单词和所有动词都很复杂，并且给它们提供的翻译更具体，更限于给定的上下文，而不是其几个部分的含义所保证。这项研究提供了有关语言如何强调简单，困难或必须进行交流的见解，以及一种语言的结构如何提供脚手架的脚手架。这为您提供了不同思维方式的窗口。该项目对于在许多语言彼此接触的领域中研究语言之间关系的任何人都将是无价的，并且还将突出这种语言的语言不寻常特征。例如，词素是在语言中识别的挑战，单词形成很复杂，几乎不对它的工作方式进行正式理解。对单词形成的理论面临挑战。数据库将允许构建新单词，并且数据库将允许更好地分析。词典将指定组成词以及仅在词源上或根本无法分析的单词，语法将提供有关如何构建复杂动词词干以及语法的洞察力，并以熟悉的词语结合词组的意义，这些奖项通过这些奖项来弥补NSF的法定宣教和范围，这表明了NSF的构成范围，并且构成了构成的范围，并且构成了构成的构成，这是在构造的范围内，并且构成了构成的构建。 标准。