Crosslinguistic Study of Word Order

词序的跨语言研究

• 批准号: 9011190
• 负责人: Matthew Dryer
• 金额: $ 11.12万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Buffalo
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1990
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1990-08-01 至 1994-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9011190&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Crosslinguistic; Study; Word; Order

ABSTRACT The research is part of an ongoing project investigating word order among the languages of the world. The goals of the project are: (1) to establish a large cross-linguistic data base on word order that will be made available to other linguists; (2) to investigate the ways in which word order characteristics correlate with each other; (3) to test universal hypotheses about word order; (4) to examine possible explanations for word order correlations and universals; and (5) to investigate the geographical and genetic distribution of word order characteristics. In the earlier phases of the project, data has been collected for a variety of word order parameters, morpheme position parameters, and a few other typological parameters from a total of 603 languages. The primary goal of this phase is to attempt to fill in a variety of different gaps in the data base, to collect data on a number of additional parameters, and to produce a book that describes the basic results of the project and makes the data base available for the use of other linguists.

摘要这项研究是一个正在进行的项目的一部分，该项目调查世界语言之间的词序。该项目的目标是：(1)建立一个大型的跨语言语序数据库，供其他语言学家使用；(2)调查词序特征相互关联的方式；(3)检验关于词序的普遍假设；(4)研究词序相关性和共性的可能解释；(5)调查语序特征的地理分布和遗传分布。在该项目的早期阶段，收集了总共603种语言的各种词序参数、语素位置参数和其他几种类型参数的数据。这一阶段的主要目标是试图填补数据库中各种不同的空白，收集关于若干其他参数的数据，并编写一本书，说明项目的基本成果，并使数据库可供其他语言学家使用。