DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Grammar of Laguna Keresan

博士论文研究：Laguna Keresan 语法

• 批准号: 0079190
• 负责人: Melissa Axelrod
• 金额: $ 0.88万
• 依托单位: University of New Mexico
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-07-01 至 2001-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0079190&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DOCTORAL; DISSERTATION; RESEARCH; Grammar; Laguna

The goal of this dissertation project is to produce a thorough and accessible reference grammar of Laguna Keresan. Laguna is one of seven members of the Keresan language family, which is an isolate, not known to be related to any other language family. Despite this special status, Keresan remains one of the least well-documented families in North America, with no published dictionaries or analyzed text collections, and no full-scale grammatical description since Miller (1965).This project will produce a reference grammar, in two versions, which will address this gap in the literature. The first version is primarily intended for linguists, and will provide coverage of the phonology, morphology, syntax and discourse structures of Laguna Keresan, as well the current sociolinguistic setting of the language in the Laguna community. It will take into account recent work in typology and grammaticization, and will place the grammatical phenomena of Laguna in a cross-linguistic context. This first version will be written in the framework of what has recently come to be called Basic Linguistic Theory, similar to the work of other researchers such as Dixon on Fijian and Foley on Yimas. The goal is to provide information on the language in a way which is accessible to researchers working in a wide variety of different theoretical frameworks.The second version of the reference grammar will be written specifically for the speakers, teachers and learners of Laguna Keresan. It will do away with much of the technical jargon and cross-linguistic perspective of the first version, and instead focus on describing the strictures of the language for the lay audience, using terminology and points of reference which are understandable and meaningful to them. By producing these two versions, the results of the research are made available both to the academic community, as well as to the members of the Laguna tribe, who have afforded the researchers the privilege of working on their language.

本论文的目标是产生一个全面的和可访问的参考语法的拉古纳凯雷桑。拉古纳语是凯雷桑语系的七个成员之一，这是一个孤立的，不知道与任何其他语系有关。尽管有这种特殊的地位，Keresan仍然是北美文献记载最少的家族之一，自米勒（1965）以来，没有出版的词典或分析过的文本集，也没有全面的语法描述。第一个版本主要是为语言学家，并将提供覆盖的音韵，形态，句法和话语结构的拉古纳凯雷桑，以及目前的社会语言学设置的语言在拉古纳社区。它将考虑到最近的工作在类型学和语法化，并将放置在一个跨语言的背景下的拉古纳的语法现象。第一个版本将在最近被称为基本语言学理论的框架内编写，类似于其他研究人员的工作，如狄克逊对斐济语和福利对伊马斯的研究。目标是提供语言的信息，以便于研究人员在各种不同的理论框架工作。参考语法的第二个版本将专门为拉古纳Keresan的发言者，教师和学习者编写。它将消除第一版中的许多技术术语和跨语言视角，而是专注于为外行观众描述语言的局限性，使用术语和参考点，这些术语和参考点对他们来说是可以理解和有意义的。通过制作这两个版本，学术界和拉古纳部落的成员都可以获得研究结果，他们为研究人员提供了研究他们语言的特权。