Comparative Database of the Derivational Morphology of a Language Family

语系派生形态比较数据库

• 批准号: 1953103
• 负责人: Monica Macaulay
• 金额: $ 32.42万
• 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: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-06-01 至 2024-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1953103&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Comparative; Database; Derivational; Morphology; Language

The historical development of a language family can be difficult to ascertain because the materials about that language family are widely dispersed. This project creates new computational infrastructure (an accessible, searchable, family-wide corpus database) that integrates dispersed material that can serve as research infrastructure for a language family and for comparative analysis of other language families. This new infrastructure will contribute to a more accurate and reliable reconstruction of the language family, leading to improved understanding of subgrouping within the family. The infrastructure database will also be useful for future research and documentation (e.g. the writing of grammars and other reference works) on languages of this family. This new database will enable theoretical work on the synchronic structure of words, advancing approaches to reconstructing polysynthetic languages, and can lead to new lines of inquiry. Tagging the corpus with semantic features, geocodes, and other such information will be invaluable for analytical work in the future, for example, lexical semantics, morphology, dialectology, and typology, and will have an impact on understanding these areas more broadly. This project makes important contributions in building infrastructure for comparison of languages within a language family when the languages are morphologically complex. The infrastructure itself will be of general value for other linguists who are engaged in work on language families with complex morphology. It will also make major contributions to the understanding of understudied areas such as lexical semantics, and it will allow for a deeper understanding of complex and little understood areas in the historical developments of the language family. It will further serve needs of many communities where there is a focus on creating new vocabulary in the languages of the family.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.

语言家族的历史发展可能很难确定，因为有关该语言家族的材料被广泛散布。该项目创建了新的计算基础架构（可访问，可搜索的，全家的语料库数据库），该项目集成了分散的材料，这些材料可以用作语言家族的研究基础架构以及对其他语言家庭的比较分析。这种新的基础架构将有助于对语言家族进行更准确和可靠的重建，从而提高对家庭内部子组的了解。基础架构数据库也将用于对未来的研究和文档（例如，语法和其他参考作品的撰写）对该家庭的语言有用。这个新的数据库将启用有关单词同步结构的理论工作，进步的方法重建多合成语言，并可以导致新的询问线。用语义特征，地理编码和其他此类信息标记语料库对于将来的分析工作来说是无价的，例如词汇语义，形态学，方言学和类型学，将对这些领域的理解产生更广泛的影响。该项目在建立基础架构方面做出了重要的贡献，以比较语言在形态上复杂的语言家族中的语言。 基础设施本身对于其他从事具有复杂形态的语言家庭的语言学家来说，将是一般价值。它还将为对词汇语义等研究领域的理解做出重大贡献，并可以更深入地了解语言家族历史发展中的复杂而鲜为人知的领域。它将进一步满足许多社区的需求，在这些社区中，重点是在家庭语言上创建新的词汇。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并且使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准，被认为值得通过评估来提供支持。