Sahaptin Grammar and Texts

抽象叙述萨哈普丁语最初在华盛顿州中部和东部，以及俄勒冈州哥伦比亚河和德舒特河中部沿线使用。Sahaptin和Nez Perce是爱达荷州和俄勒冈州东北部的一种语言，共同组成了Sahaptian家族。萨哈普提语是语言学家特别感兴趣的语言，不仅因为它们与其他美洲印第安语的遗传和历史关系，而且还因为它们的语法属性，其中一些直接涉及当前语言学理论中讨论的问题。然而，关于这种语言的文献资料很少。这个项目的目的是生成Sahaptin的语法。在计算机辅助下准备语法的过程还将导致对一些Sahaptin文本的分析，这也将是对该领域的重要贡献。联合首席调查员将执行该项目的大部分工作，他已经在相关语言Nez Perce上工作了多年。他的工作非常成功，为他赢得了极有才华的年轻语言学家的声誉。这一经历使他完全有资格将拟议中的新项目顺利完成。

Abstract Narrative The Sahaptin language was spoken aboriginally in central and eastern Washington state, and along the middle Columbia and Deschutes Rivers in Oregon. Sahaptin and Nez Perce, a language spoken in Idaho and northeastern Oregon, together comprise the Sahaptian family. The Sahaptian languages are of particular interest to linguists both in terms of their genetic and his- torical relationships to other American Indian languages, and also because of their grammatical properties, some of which bear directly on currently discussed issues in linguistic theory. Documentation of the language, however, is scanty. The purpose of this project is to produce a grammar of Sahaptin. The process of preparing the grammar, with computational aids, will also result in the analysis of a number of Sahaptin texts, which will also be an important contribution to the field. The Co-Principal Investigator, who will be carrying out the bulk of the work on the project, has worked for a number of years on the related language Nez Perce. His work has been very successful, and has earned him a reputation as an extremely talented young linguist. This experience has made him entirely qualified to carry out the proposed new project to a successful conclusion.