Syntactic and Phonological Interactions in the Makassar Languages

望加锡语言的句法和语音交互

• 批准号: 9729108
• 负责人: Daniel Finer
• 金额: $ 12.3万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Stony Brook
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-06-01 至 2001-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9729108&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Syntactic; Phonological; Interactions; Makassar; Languages

This project will investigate the interactions between the syntax and phonology of languages of the Makassar group from South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The Makassar languages, which with the increasing influence of Bahasa Indonesia are in serious danger of becoming extinct within the next few generations, have a rich inventory of affixes and clitics that signal, among other things, subject and object agreement, definiteness, possession, and plurality, and various aspects of derivational morphology. They are a fertile ground for testing hypotheses concerning the relationships between syntactic and prosodic structure. The aims of the project are (i) to provide a detailed description of the affixal system of these languages; (ii) to ground this description in careful analysis of both the syntax and the phonology of the languages; (iii) to investigate the general principles governing the mapping between the syntactic, morphological, and prosodic structure of the languages; and (iv) to place these results in the wider context of a comparative approach to grammatical theory; and (iv) to prepare and make widely available a database which will serve as a resource for researchers interested in Indonesian languages and/or in any of the grammatical areas covered in the project. The project has the potential to contribute to the further development of our understanding of the structure of human language by providing a thorough documentation of parts of the syntax, morphology, and phonology of a little known group of uncommonly studied languages, and extensive investigation of the implications of the data for the theory of grammar.

这个项目将调查印度尼西亚南苏拉威西的马卡萨族语言的句法和音位之间的相互作用。随着印度尼西亚语的影响力越来越大，马卡萨语面临着在未来几代人内灭绝的严重危险，这些语言拥有丰富的词缀和词缀，这些词缀和词缀标志着主语和宾语的一致性、确定性、占有性和多元性，以及派生形态的各个方面。它们是检验有关句法和韵律结构之间关系的假设的肥沃土壤。该项目的目标是(I)详细描述这些语言的词缀系统；(Ii)在仔细分析这些语言的句法和音系学的基础上进行这一描述；(Iii)调查这些语言的句法、形态和韵律结构之间映射的一般原则；(Iv)将这些结果放在语法理论的比较方法的更广泛的背景下；以及(Iv)准备并广泛提供一个数据库，作为对印度尼西亚语言和/或项目所涵盖的任何语法领域感兴趣的研究人员的资源。该项目提供了一组鲜为人知的鲜为人知的语言的句法、词法和音系学的详细文件，并对这些数据对语法理论的影响进行了广泛的调查，从而有可能有助于进一步发展我们对人类语言结构的理解。