International Postdoctoral Fellows Program: Comparative Study of Cushitic Syntax

小行星9505658 国际初级研究员和博士后研究员计划使美国科学家和工程师能够在国外进行三到二十四个月的研究。该计划的奖项提供了联合研究的机会，以及使用国外独特或互补的设施，专业知识和实验条件。 该奖项将支持奥林博士为期12个月的博士后研究访问。Gensler与Bernd海涅教授在科隆，德国的大学的非洲白人研究所工作。 该项目的目标是学习库希特语言和语言学，特别是在亚非和东非背景下的库希特语法。 这项工作将建立在Gensler以前的工作基础上，他在一个平衡的大陆范围样本中收集了18种非洲语言的详细信息，包括几种东非语言，其中包括一种库希特语言，阿法尔。 这一数据在纯粹的非洲范围内作为地区工作的类型学小型数据库是有用的。 现在他将作为东非Sprachbund的一员接近库希奇。 古罗马语和库希特语之间的语言联系是一个地域和遗传因素的问题，这提供了一个无可争议的底层影响的经典例子。 今年将为东非的库希特语（或Omotic）语言的未来实地工作奠定基础，那里有许多描述不清或未描述的语言，其中一些濒临灭绝。***

9505658 Gensler The International Junior Investigator and Postdoctoral Fellows Program enables U.S. scientists and engineers to conduct three to twenty-four months of research abroad. The program's awards provide opportunities for joint research, and the use of unique or complementary facilities, expertise and experimental conditions abroad. This award will support a twelve-month postdoctoral research visit by Dr. Orin D. Gensler to work with Professor Bernd Heine at the Institut fur Afrikanistik at the Universitat zu Koln in Cologne, Germany. The goal of this project is to learn the Cushitic languages and linguistics, specifically Cushitic syntax in an Afroasiatic and East African context. This work will build on Gensler's previous work in which he assembled detailed information from 18 African languages, in a balanced continent-wide sample, including several East African languages, among them one Cushitic language, Afar. This data has been useful in a purely African context as a typological mini-database for areal work. Now he will approach Cushitic as a member of an East African Sprachbund. The linguistic link between Ethiopic and Cushitic is a matter of areal and genetic considerations which provide a classic example of undisputed substratal influence. This year will lay the ground work for future field work on a Cushitic (or Omotic) language in East Africa, where there are many ill-described or undescribed languages, some which are on the verge of extinction. ***