Documenting the Chiwere (Siouan) Language: Explanation and Guidance from a Model of Language Change (REU Supplement)

记录 Chiwere（苏语）语言：语言变化模型的解释和指导（REU 补充）

• 批准号: 9021337
• 负责人: N. Louanna Furbee
• 金额: $ 6.48万
• 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: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-06-01 至 1995-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9021337&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Documenting; Chiwere; Siouan; Language; Explanation

ABSTRACT This project continues the documentation of Chiwere, a Siouan language in the late stages of obsolescence, a language that has fewer than 15 fluent speakers. Probably as a result of the disuse of Chiwere as an every-day form of communication for more than a generation, all present-day speakers of Chiwere, even fluent ones, exhibit some gaps in their knowledge of the language. These inadequacies appear to be patterned. This project addresses the problem of integration of divergent and partial knowledge toward recovering a complete grammatical system. Accommodation theory, a theory most usually applied to gain understanding of dialect variation and shift in synchronic settings, appears to offer a guide to integrating these various less-than-perfect competencies into something resembling a relatively complete picture of Chiwere as it was in its full vibrancy of life. The specific goals for this project are (1) to develop this method for recovery of the complete linguistic system from several incomplete models, thus enhancing the description of Chiwere; (2) to devise an explanatory model of language change in Chiwere that may be more generally applicable for the whole of the Great Plains languages; (3) to reconstruct the paths of language death, i.e., to make a case histroy of language death in Chiwere; (4) to test hypothese suggested by accommodation theory about the pattern of decline in Chiwere and its relevance for indicating important features of the language.

摘要 该项目延续了Chiwere的文档， 苏族语言在后期的淘汰阶段，一种语言 流利的演讲者少于15人。 可能是由于 Chiware作为日常交流形式的废弃， 超过一代人，所有现在的奇韦尔人，甚至 在他们的知识中，有一些空白， 语言 这些不足之处似乎是固定的。 这 该项目解决了融合不同和 部分知识，以恢复完整的语法 系统 调节理论，一种最常用于增益的理论， 对方言共时变异和迁移的认识 设置，似乎提供了一个指南，以整合这些不同的 不太完美的能力， 相对完整的奇韦尔图片，因为它是在其完整的 生命的活力 本项目的具体目标是：（1） 发展这种方法恢复完整的语言 系统从几个不完整的模型，从而提高了 描述Chiware;（2）设计一个解释模型， 可能更普遍适用的Chiware语言变化 （3）重建整个大平原语言; 语言死亡之路，即，为...做历史记录 （4）为了检验 关于Chiwere下降模式的适应理论， 它的相关性表明了语言的重要特征。