Strengthening Capacity in Dynamic Language Infrastructure for Tribal Nations

加强部落民族动态语言基础设施的能力

• 批准号: 2039991
• 负责人: Colleen Fitzgerald
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M University Corpus Christi
• 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 2022-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2039991&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Strengthening; Capacity; Dynamic; Language; Infrastructure

One important dimension of carrying out scientific investigation is having the resources (such as personnel, buildings, or equipment) needed to carry out these activities, that is, infrastructure. Diversity of scientific investigators is another important investigation. As scientists have included women or people of color, different research questions, assumptions or epistemological frameworks increased fundamental knowledge about a host of fields, ranging from biology to medicine to engineering. This award will enable a conference, and associated meetings, to provide training opportunities and establish partnerships between members of Native American groups and linguists with grant experience in order to help increase submissions and successful awards in the language sciences for projects led by Native American principal investigators, especially those based at Native American institutions. In doing so, it will strengthen capacity in language infrastructure for tribal nations, as well as diversify the pool of investigators (and the research questions and epistemologies) to advance fundamental knowledge in the language sciences. Project activities will broaden participation of Native Americans in linguistics, as well as build economic and scientific opportunities for Native Americans.Native American languages have led to significant intellectual contributions in our understanding of what language is, its systematicity, and the diversity of human language in all areas of linguistic theory. Beyond that, they have provided crucial information to other sciences, such as archaeology, where language data is placed alongside other kinds of data in order to reconstruct human prehistory, and cultural anthropology. The nature of the project is such that it will lead to the creation of proposals focused on questions largely shaped by Native Americans. The insights of such PIs about their languages and cultures are likely to lead them to focus on important research on topics that have been neglected by outside scholars and, thereby, expand the range of scientific advances that can be supported by research on Native American languages. This will allow Native American theories of language to inform linguistic theory in much the same way that data from Native American languages has, which has transformative potential for the study of language.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.

进行科学研究的一个重要方面是拥有需要进行这些活动的资源（例如人员，建筑物或设备），即基础设施。 科学研究者的多样性是另一项重要的研究。 由于科学家包括妇女或有色人种，不同的研究问题，假设或认识论框架增加了有关许多领域的基本知识，从生物学到医学再到工程学。该奖项将使会议和相关会议能够提供培训机会，并在美国原住民团体和语言学家之间建立合作伙伴关系，并具有赠款经验，以帮助增加由美洲原住民首席研究人员（尤其是美国原住民机构）领导的项目的语言科学的提交和成功奖项。通过这样做，它将增强部落国家语言基础设施的能力，并使研究人员（以及研究问题和认识论）的多样化多样化，以提高语言科学的基本知识。项目活动将扩大美国原住民参与语言学的参与，并为美洲原住民建立经济和科学机会。本地的美国语言在我们对语言是什么，其系统性以及人类语言在语言理论的所有领域的理解中做出了重大的智力贡献。除此之外，他们还向其他科学（例如考古学）提供了重要的信息，在该科学中，语言数据与其他类型的数据一起放置，以重建人类史前史和文化人类学。 该项目的性质使得它将导致提出的提案，这些提议集中在很大程度上由美洲原住民塑造的问题上。这种PI关于其语言和文化的见解很可能使他们专注于对外部学者所忽视的主题的重要研究，从而扩大了有关美国原住民语言研究可以支持的科学进步的范围。这将允许美国原住民的语言理论以与美国原住民语言的数据相同的方式为语言理论提供信息，这在语言研究中具有变革性的潜力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评估标准通过评估来获得支持的。