Narpa Grammar, Dictionary, and Texts

该项目的目的是收集关于Narpa语言的数据，这些数据将被首席研究员用于准备出版语法、词典和文本集。纳尔巴是藏缅语系波底支塔曼支的一员。这种语言在尼泊尔的马南区大约有800人使用。虽然这种语言仍然是两个村庄的主要交流媒介，但人口少，人民相对贫穷，以及他们使用国家语言尼泊尔语的双语，所有这些都表明，这种语言可能很快就会停止使用。除了几个简短的单词列表外，目前还没有关于Narpa语言的公开文档。语法将在一个相对非理论的、描述性的框架中产生，以便对汉藏学家、人类学家和各种理论派别的一般语言学家最大限度地有用。语法和字典将包含丰富的插图，从引出和文本材料。这些文本将被选择来举例说明几种话语类型和各种文化情境，并将伴随着语素逐语素的注释以及翻译成地道的英语。这三个组成部分语法，字典，文本都是相互关联的。

The aim of this project is to collect data on the Narpa language, data that will be used by the Principal Investigator to prepare for publication a grammar, dictionary, and a collection of texts. Narpa is a member of the Tamangic group within the Bodic branch of Tibeto-Burman. It is spoken in the Manang District of Nepal by about 800 people. While the language is still the principal medium of communication in two villages, the small size of the population, the relative poverty of the people, and their bilingualism in Nepali, the national language, all point to the fact that the language could cease to be spoken rather quickly. A couple of short word lists apart, there currently is no published documentation on the Narpa language. The grammar will be produced in a relatively non-theoretical, descriptive framework so as to be of maximum utility to Sino-Tibetanists, anthropologists, and general linguists of various theoretical persuasions. The grammar and dictionary will contain copious illustrations from both elicited and textual material. The texts will be chosen to exemplify several discourse types and a variety of cultural situations, and will be accompanied by morpheme-by-morpheme glosses as well as translations into idiomatic English. All three components grammar, dictionary, texts will be keyed to each other.