The Interaction of Grammar and Discourse in Northern Pomo Conversation and Monologue

北方坡莫语会话与独白中语法与话语的相互作用

• 批准号: 9111264
• 负责人: Catherine O'Connor
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Trustees of Boston University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-07-01 至 1995-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9111264&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Interaction; Grammar; Discourse; Northern; Pomo

ABSTRACT Investigation of grammatical elements functioning within naturalistic discourse expands our understanding of the workings of grammar. Moreover, it reveals how discourse genres and cultural practices are partially constructed through speakers' use of grammatical resources. The grammar of Northern Pomo, a dying American Indian language of Northern California, displays several grammatical subsystems (e.g. fluid-S' subject case marking, logophoric pronouns, so-called switch reference) which interact with discourse in ways that are of interest to theories of grammar and discourse. The grammar has been extensively described, but descriptive and theoretical work on these and other topics has been limited by the availability of a very small corpus of extended discourse. Now an opportunity has arisen to collect a large corpus of conversational and traditional narrative data from two of the last fluent and intellectually active Northern Pomo speakers. The Principal Investigator will collect conversational data, and working with her consultant of the last decade, will transcribe, analyze, gloss, and translate new and existing conversational and monologue data. This will culminate in a volume of texts, with grammatical and lexical supporting material. The PI will also investigate specific linguistic hypotheses about the grammar of Northern Pomo based on the analyzed corpus of connected discourse.

对自然主义语篇中的语法成分进行抽象研究，可以扩展我们对语法运作的理解。此外，它还揭示了语篇体裁和文化实践是如何通过说话人对语法资源的使用而部分构建的。北波莫语是加利福尼亚州北部一种濒临消亡的美国印第安语，它的语法表现出几个语法子系统(如流体S的主语格标记、对数代词、所谓的转换指称)，它们以语法和语篇理论感兴趣的方式与语篇相互作用。语法已经得到了广泛的描述，但关于这些和其他主题的描述性和理论工作一直受到扩展语料库的极小语料库的限制。现在，有机会从最后两位流利且活跃于智力的北方波莫语演讲者那里收集大量对话和传统叙事数据。首席调查员将收集对话数据，并与她过去十年的顾问合作，转录、分析、润色和翻译新的和现有的对话和独白数据。这将在一卷文本中达到高潮，并带有语法和词汇辅助材料。PI还将基于对关联语篇的分析语料库，调查关于北方波莫语语法的具体语言假设。