Documenting the Chiwere (Siouan) Language

记录 Chiwere（苏语）语言

• 批准号: 8818393
• 负责人: N. Louanna Furbee
• 金额: $ 4.22万
• 依托单位: University of Missouri-Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1989-03-01 至 1992-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8818393&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Documenting; Chiwere; Siouan; Language

ABSTRACT Chiwere is an endangered Siouan language, surviving today in the minds and speech of only about 40 Ioway and Otoe-Missouria Indians, all of whom are elderly. This project aims at preparation of a grammar and associated studies of Chiwere before the language dies, taking with it much of the expression and tradition of the culture for which it had been the framing element. The study goals are (1) to write a grammar of Chiwere, based on field work and archival materials; (2) to collect reminiscences and traditional narratives in Chiwere, as records of the past and as documents of the persistence of a culture; (3) to offer counsel to interested Chiwere speakers and tribal groups, as requested, on the preparation of teaching and dictionary materials; (4) to provide direction to papers on specific topics in language, culture, ethnohistory, and prehistory; and finally (5) to train and direct the work of several graduate students toward increasing the number of scholars concerned with Siouan languages. These goals will be achieved using standard structural linguistic field research methods, employing controlled elicitation of grammatical forms with careful transcription and analytic translation of a corpus of tape and video recorded texts.

奇瓦语是一种濒临灭绝的苏族语言，如今仅存于约40名爱荷华州和奥托-密苏里州印第安人的思想和言语中，他们都是老年人。这个项目的目的是在汉语消亡之前准备一份汉语语法和相关的研究，并带走它作为框架元素的文化的许多表达和传统。研究目标是：(1)在实地考察和档案资料的基础上，编写一部汉语语法；(2)收集中国的回忆和传统叙事，作为对过去的记录和一种文化持续存在的文件；（三）应要求，为有兴趣的汉语使用者和部落提供编写教学和词典材料方面的咨询；(4)对语言、文化、民族史和史前史等特定主题的论文提供指导；最后(5)培训和指导几名研究生的工作，以增加关注苏语的学者的数量。这些目标将通过标准的结构语言学领域研究方法来实现，采用有控制的语法形式引出，仔细转录和分析翻译磁带和录像文本的语料库。