Doctoral Dissertation Research: Prefixal Agreement, Verb Classes, and Serialization

博士论文研究：前缀一致、动词类和序列化

基本信息

批准号：
2141097
负责人：
Jonathan Bobaljik
金额：
$ 1.31万
依托单位：
Harvard University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2022-03-01 至 2023-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2141097&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Doctoral Dissertation Research Prefixal Agreement

项目摘要

This dissertation project focuses on the detailed documentation and study of an under-studied language with rapidly decreasing intergenerational transmission. The language displays a number of structural characteristics which are relatively unique within its language family; deeper investigation into the origin of morphological agreement and verb classes has the potential to shed light on broader issues within theoretical linguistics such as the underlying representation of lexical items, while also furthering our understanding of the ways in which languages change and develop over time. In addition, this project aims to provide a solid empirical foundation for future research into variation across related languages, contributing to our knowledge of typological patterns found in and around the region. Finally, it is a goal of the project that the resulting data, processed in close collaboration with native speaker consultants and publicly archived, will be multifunctional and suitable for adaptation into community-facing literary, pedagogical, and reference material, facilitating local efforts at language maintenance and preservation.The researcher will conduct on-site fieldwork with native speakers in order to thoroughly document and analyze grammatical structure with particular focus on the language's morphological systems and their interface with other syntactic and phonological phenomena from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective. In particular, this project is built around the hypothesis that there is a developing incipient inflection class system, wherein the choice of prefix shape with a particular set of verbs is no longer phonologically or semantically predictable. By closely investigating sub-systemic alternations in verb class, valency, voice, and serialization, this project aims to shed light on issues such as i) the structural status and historical origin of subject agreement and semi-idiosyncratic verb classes; ii) the distribution of pronominal elements and their intersection with the development of case and alignment; and iii) the grammaticalization of valency- and category-changing derivational morphology and their relationship to the abstract representation of lexical items. Thus, this work has the potential to contribute to our broader understanding of morphosyntactic theory cross-linguistically, while also bringing a novel diachronic perspective to the study of an understudied language 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.

该论文项目的重点是详细的文档和研究不足的语言，并迅速减少代际传播。该语言显示了许多结构特征，它们在其语言家族中相对独特。对形态协议和动词类的起源进行更深入的研究有可能阐明理论语言学中更广泛的问题，例如词汇项目的基础代表，同时也进一步了解了我们对语言随着时间的变化和发展方式的理解。此外，该项目旨在为对跨相关语言的变异的未来研究提供稳固的经验基础，这有助于我们对该地区及其周围地区的类型模式的了解。最后，该项目的目标是，与母语者顾问密切合作并公开归档的结果数据将具有多功能，适合于适应面向社区的文学，教学和参考材料，并促进本地努力，以促进语言维护和维护的本地研究人员，以与本地人的秘密企业进行详细介绍和分析，并在本地范围内进行跨性别的企业，并分析了与本地的现场互动，并分析了与本地的现场工作。从同步和历时的角度来看，具有其他句法和语音现象。特别是，该项目围绕以下假设：有一个发展中的初期拐点系统，其中使用一组特定动词的前缀形状不再是语音或语义上可预测的。通过密切调查动词类别，价值，声音和序列化中的子系系统交替，该项目旨在阐明诸如i）主题一致性和半岛同步动词类的结构状态和历史起源； ii）代词元素的分布及其与案例和一致性发展的相交； iii）价值和类别变化的衍生形态的语法化及其与词汇项目抽象表示的关系。因此，这项工作有可能为我们对形态句法理论的更广泛的理解做出贡献，同时还将新颖的直言性观点带入了研究研究局的语言家族的研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过评估该基金会的知识分子优点和广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得的。