Northern Brazilian Cariban Languages Documentation Project

在巴西北部使用的加勒比语言是世界上记录最少的语言之一，其中许多语言正面临灭绝的危险。该项目将收集尽可能多的北巴西加勒比语言的文献记录，并开始从这些记录中转录单词列表和语法信息的过程。该项目还将支持巴西加勒比语言学学生在三个不同的北部巴西加勒比语言社区进行密集的实地工作。语言学家将使用传统的现场技术，包括记录、转录和翻译单词列表和测试；句法分析将通过引出和分析转录文本。对于这三种语言，该项目将产生音韵学、形态学、基本句法的分析，以及理论或类型学相关问题的论文。有了这些新数据，共同研究小组将致力于对加勒比人家族进行更可靠的分类，并重建原加勒比人的词汇和词法。该项目是一项合作项目，旨在帮助培训新的巴西语言学家掌握基本的语言描述和语言学的历史/类型学/功能方法。它也将响应加勒比语言社区的需要，为保护他们独特的语言和文化提供帮助。//

ABSTRACT The Cariban languages spoken in northern Brazil are among the least documented in the world, and many are in danger of extinction. This project will collect documentary recordings of as many northern Brazilian Cariban languages as possible and begin the process of transcribing word lists and grammatical information from these recordings. The project will also provide support for the Brazilian Cariban linguistics students to do intensive field work in three different northern Brazilian Cariban language communities. The linguists will use traditional field techniques, including recording, transcribing, and translating word lists and tests; syntactic analysis will be via elicitation and analysis of transcribed texts. For these three languages, the project will produce analyses of phonology, morphology, basic syntax, and papers on theoretically or typologically relevant issues. With these new data, the co-PI will work towards a more reliable classification of the Cariban family and reconstruction of Proto Cariban lexicon and morphosyntax. This project is a collaborative effort, designed to help train new Brazilian linguists in basic linguistic description and historical/typological/functional approaches to linguistics. It will also be responsive to the needs of Cariban language communities, offering help in preserving their unique languages and cultures.//