Publication of Grammar of Mupun

该项目的目的是出版《木番语语法》。穆潘语是一种西乍得语，在尼日利亚的高原州使用。《语法》和随附的《字典》是对这种语言的第一次完整描述，也是关于Mupun所属的Angas语系的任何语言的最完整的信息。这两本书是在国家科学基金会的资助下写成的。这本词典获得了人文学科凯登奖（Kayden Prize in The Humanities），该奖项为该书的出版提供了支持。《语法》为一般语言学提供了许多有趣的分析和事实。此外，实地观察表明，由于越来越多的受教育青年在日常生活中用豪萨语或英语代替Mupun语，该语言处于极其脆弱的境地。因此，《语法》和《字典》将成为一种语言在几代人之内濒临灭绝的记录。

ABSTRACT The aim of the project is the publication of the Grammar of Mupun. Mupun is a West Chadic language, spoken in the Plataeu State of Nigeria. The Grammar and an accompanying Dictionary are the first full descriptions of this language and also the most complete body of information on any language from the Angas group, to which Mupun belongs. The two books were written with the support of an NSF grant. The dictionary received a Kayden Prize in the Humanities, an award that provides support for the publication of the book. The Grammar presents a number of analyses and facts of interest for general linguistics. In addition, observation in the field indicates that the language is in extremely vulnerable situation because the educated youth are more and more replacing Mupun in their daily speech by eith Hausa or English. The Grammar and the Dictionary will be thus the record of a language in jeopardy of extinction within a few generations.