Doctoral Dissertation Research: The grammar and use of elaborate verb morphology by elderly monolinguals

博士论文研究：老年单语者的语法和复杂动词形态的使用

• 批准号: 2035185
• 负责人: Anthony Woodbury
• 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: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2035185&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; grammar; use

The way bilinguals and monolingual elders speak an endangered indigenous language is not uniform. Bilinguals are typically more dominant in one of their two languages, in most cases not their indigenous one but the national or dominant language in their country of origin. Monolingual speakers differ from bilinguals in having one single, fully developed, linguistic system. This difference can be seen in their use of words, especially complex verbs, since a range of semantic nuances that are idiosyncratic to their speech are displayed. The speech of elderly monolinguals in indigenous languages is vanishing as villages decrease in population, leading to significant losses of cultural diversity. In this dissertation project, the doctoral student will document naturalistic spoken monolingual speech and provide an in-depth analysis of the grammar and the semantics of verbal morphology in a particular monolingual variety that will allow answering questions such as: What is the verbal morphology of elderly monolinguals like and what grammar underlies such complex systems? What semantic information is prominently displayed through the verbs used by monolinguals that is not present in bilingual speech? These questions remain just loosely explored in current literature. The results of this project will enhance understanding of the diversity of endangered indigenous languages as it brings into the analysis monolingual systems which are morphologically more elaborate, thus allowing researchers to evaluate different cross-linguistic theories of morphologically complex languages. Since the doctoral student is bilingual, data collection will include her participation in everyday conversations. This interactive process will guarantee gathering real speech while spontaneously interacting with elderly monolinguals. Complementary elicited data will also be gathered to help achieve a better understanding of the semantics of verbal morphology. The naturalistic data corpus collected will be transcribed, annotated and analyzed, and will then be curated and deposited in a digital archive for the use of a wide range of stakeholders including indigenous language speakers, linguists, and other researchers.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.

双语者和单语言长者说一种濒临灭绝的土著语言的方式并不统一。双语者通常在两种语言之一中更为主导，在大多数情况下，双语不是其土著语言，而是其原籍国的民族或主导语言。单语扬声器与双语者不同，具有一个单一的，完全发达的语言系统。在使用单词，尤其是复杂动词的情况下，可以看到这种差异，因为显示了一系列对语音的语义差异。随着村庄的人口减少，土著语言中老年单语言的讲话正在消失，从而导致文化多样性的巨大损失。在该论文项目中，博士生将记录自然主义的单语言语音，并在特定单语言中对语法和言语形态学的语义进行深入分析，以允许以下问题回答：以下问题：以下问题：什么是：老年人单语言和哪些语法语法的语法基础是什么？双语演讲中不存在的单语言所使用的动词突出显示了哪些语义信息？这些问题在当前文献中仍然很松散地探索。该项目的结果将增强对濒危土著语言的多样性的理解，因为它将其带入分析单语言系统，这些系统在形态上更加详尽，从而使研究人员能够评估形态复杂语言的不同跨语言理论。由于博士生是双语的，因此数据收集将包括她参加日常对话。这种互动过程将确保在自发与老年单语言互动时收集真实的语音。还将收集互补的引起的数据，以帮助更好地理解口头形态的语义。收集到的自然数据语料库将进行转录，注释和分析，然后将策划和存放在数字档案中，以使用广泛的利益相关者，包括土著语言讲话者，语言学家和其他研究人员。该奖项颁奖典礼反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过评估了基金会的智力效果，并被认为是通过评估的支持者和广泛的范围。