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

对自然主义语篇中语法要素的研究扩展了我们对语法运作的理解。此外，它揭示了话语类型和文化实践是如何通过说话者对语法资源的使用而部分构建的。北波莫语是北加州一种濒临灭绝的美洲印第安语，它的语法显示出几个语法子系统（例如fluid-S的主格标记、词性代词、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。语法已经被广泛地描述，但是对这些和其他主题的描述和理论工作受到非常小的扩展话语语料库的限制。现在有机会从最后两个流利且智力活跃的北波莫语使用者那里收集大量的会话和传统叙事数据。首席研究员将收集会话数据，并与她过去十年的顾问合作，将转录、分析、注释和翻译新的和现有的会话和独白数据。这将最终形成一卷文本，其中包括语法和词汇方面的支持材料。PI还将根据分析的连接语篇语料库，研究关于北波莫语语法的具体语言学假设。

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.