Kutenai Texts and Dictionary

该项目包括继续进行对库特奈语的基本描述工作，库特奈语是太平洋西北部的一种美洲印第安语，与任何其他语言没有密切联系。基本目标是出版两卷，一卷是英语文本合集，另一卷是分析性词典。劳伦斯·摩根最近完成了一篇论文，提供了对这种语言的语法描述。这两卷书，连同摩根的论文，将提供对语言的全面描述。这篇论文主要是描述性的，并将库特奈语法的事实提供给所有理论主张的语言学家。该项目将涉及转录一些已经存在于磁带上的文本，将它们输入计算机，并对其进行分析。也有一些现有的文本只被转录，而另一些已经被转录并输入计算机，但需要分析。这本词典将作为语篇和论文的词汇。将开展实地工作，该项目将与当地以社区为基础的语言项目接轨。

ABSTRACT The project involves the continuation of work already in progress on producing a basic description of the Kutenai language, an American Indian language of the Pacific Northwest which is not closely related to any other language. The basic goal is to produce two volumes, one a coleection of texts in the language, the other an analytic dictionary. Lawrence Morgan recently completed a dissertation that provides a grammatical description of the language. The two volumes proposed, together with Morgan's dissertation, will provide a well-rounded description of the language. The dissertation is primarily descriptive and makes the facts of Kutenai grammar available to linguists of all theoretical persuasions. The project will involve transcribing a number of the texts that already exist on tape, entering them onto computer, and analyzing them. There are also some existing texts that have only been transcribed, and others that have been transcribed and entered onto computer but which need to be analyzed. The dictionary will serve as a glossary for the volume of texts and for the dissertation. Field work will be undertaken and the project will interface with local community-based language projects.