Dissertation Research: Coeur d'Alene Grammatical Relations

摘要这项研究将包括一次为期六周的爱达荷州北部Coeur d‘Alene保留地之旅，在那里，学生研究人员将进行语言田野调查，重点是北美印第安语Coeur d’Alene Salish的语法关系。语法关系(主语、宾语)既是构词要素又是句子结构要素；它们的作用取决于词根固有的控制因素和及物性因素，以及词干中的及物性和并入因素；这些关系通常只有在理解语篇结构的情况下才能解释。这项调查将有助于完成这名学生在德克萨斯大学的语言学博士论文。这项研究将极大地增加关于Coeur d‘Alene的有限的描述性信息，并有助于对内陆Salish语一般的词法和句法的理解，并最终将作为比较Salish句法研究的基础。主要主题包括用来表示语法关系的形态和句法结构；(介词)并入和词汇后缀对改变或指定语法关系的作用；词干上主语和宾语代词所表示的交叉指代关系的斜接和附加语的使用；以及这些关系在句法和语篇中的作用。

ABSTRACT The research will involve one six-week trip to the Coeur d'Alene Reservation in northern Idaho, where the student researcher will conduct linguistic field work focusing on grammatical relations in Coeur d'Alene Salish, a North American Indian language. Grammatical relations (subject, object) are indicated as elements of both word formation and sentence structure; their roles are dependent on factors of control and transitivity inherent in the root, and transitivity and incorporation indicated in the word stem; and the relations are often interpretable only with an understanding of discourse structure. This investigation will contribute to the completion of the student's University of Texas doctoral dissertation in linguistics. The study will add significantly to the limited body of descriptive information available on Coeur d'Alene and to the understanding of the morphology and syntax of Interior Salishan languages in general, and will eventually serve as a basis for comparative Salish syntax studies. Major topics will include the morphological and syntactic structures used to indicate grammatical relations; the function of (preposition) incorporation and lexical suffixation to alter or specify grammatical relations; the use of clitics and adjuncts to cross- reference relations indicated by subject and object pronouns on the stem; and the roles of these relations in syntax and discourse.