The Yurok Language: Description and Revitalization

尤洛克语言：描述与复兴

• 批准号: 0004081
• 负责人: Andrew Garrett
• 金额: $ 31.4万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-02-15 至 2004-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0004081&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Yurok; Language; Description; Revitalization

Yurok is an endangered language of northwestern California with no more than a dozen fluent speakers, and possibly as few as five or six, all of them elders. The language is known to linguists via the 1951 grammar by R. H. Robins and a dozen or so other publications, but the majority of past work on Yurok remains unpublished, in the form of fieldnotes and recordings of linguists from the early 20th century (mostly archived at Berkeley). The goal of this project is to provide a comprehensive grammatical description of Yurok while at the same time contributing to the Yurok Tribe's language revitalization project. Data collection and consolidation will involve two primary components over the duration of the grant: fieldwork with the remaining speakers of the language to record as much grammatical, lexical, and text material as possible; and archival work on the unpublished fieldnotes and accompanying recordings of Kroeber and Haas, as well as the fieldnotes of Sapir and others. From this enriched and consolidated database three main publications are envisaged: a teaching grammar of Yurok for use by language teachers and learners in the schools; a Yurok-English/English-Yurok dictionary for use by Yurok speakers and language learners; and a more complete reference grammar which includes information on the sound structure, word structure, sentence structure, dialect differences, speech styles, and the history of the language.

尤罗克语是加州西北部的一种濒危语言，能流利使用的人不超过12人，可能只有五六人，而且都是老年人。 语言学家通过1951年R. H.罗宾斯和其他十几种出版物，但过去关于尤罗克的大部分工作仍然没有出版，以田野笔记和世纪早期语言学家的录音的形式（大部分存档在伯克利）。 这个项目的目标是提供一个全面的语法描述，而在同一时间的Yurok部落的语言振兴项目作出贡献。 数据收集和整合将涉及两个主要组成部分在赠款期间：与语言的其余扬声器现场工作，以记录尽可能多的语法，词汇和文本材料;和档案工作的未发表的田野笔记和附带的录音Kroeber和哈斯，以及萨皮尔和其他人的田野笔记。 根据这一丰富和统一的数据库，预计将有三种主要出版物：供学校语言教师和学习者使用的尤罗克语教学语法;供说尤罗克语的人和语言学习者使用的尤罗克语-英语/英语-尤罗克语词典;以及更完整的参考语法，其包括关于声音结构、词结构、句子结构、方言差异、讲话风格和语言的历史。