Creek Grammar and Expanded Textbase

Creek 语法和扩展文本库

• 批准号: 9809819
• 负责人: Jack Martin
• 金额: $ 12.3万
• 依托单位: College of William and Mary
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-07-01 至 2002-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9809819&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Creek; Grammar; Expanded; Textbase

Creek is a member of the Muskogean language family with some 4,000, mostly elderly speakers residing in three communities: the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of eastcentral Oklahoma, the Seminole Nation of central Oklahoma, and the Brighton Reservation within the Seminole Tribe of Florida. This project seeks to document these three dialects by expanding an existing corpus of Creek texts and by using the corpus to create the first modern reference grammar of the language. The resulting textbase will allow researchers to perform linguistic analysis and read transcriptions or translations of documents. The reference grammar will provide information on the phonetics, phonology, morphology, and syntax of the language while paying special attention to matters of theoretical interest to linguists, including the description of stress, tone, syllable structure, 'active' agreement, switch reference, grammatical relations, voice, directionals, and external possession. The resulting materials will contribute to comparative and historical studies of Muskogean languages, to theoretical work in linguistics, and to community efforts to learn and maintain the language.

克里克语是马斯科吉语系的一员，约有4,000人，大多数是老年人，居住在三个社区：俄克拉荷马州中东部的马斯科吉（克里克）民族，俄克拉荷马州中部的塞米诺尔民族和佛罗里达塞米诺尔部落内的布莱顿保留地。该项目旨在通过扩展现有的克里克文本语料库并使用语料库创建该语言的第一个现代参考语法来记录这三种方言。由此产生的文本库将允许研究人员进行语言分析和阅读文件的译文或翻译。参考语法将提供有关语音学、音韵学、形态学和语法的信息，同时特别关注语言学家感兴趣的理论问题，包括重音、音调、音节结构、“主动”一致、转换参考、语法关系、语态、指向和外部占有。由此产生的材料将有助于Muskogean语言的比较和历史研究，语言学的理论工作，以及社区学习和维护语言的努力。