Athabascan Languages Conference 2003 to be held in Arcata, California

2003 年阿萨巴斯卡语言会议将在加利福尼亚州阿克塔举行

• 批准号: 0317319
• 负责人: Victor Golla
• 金额: $ 1.23万
• 依托单位: Humboldt State University Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-06-01 至 2004-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0317319&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Athabascan; Languages; Conference; 2003; held

The National Science Foundation will support the Athabascan Languages Conference. The conference will be held at Humboldt State University, in Arcata, CA, on June 5-7, 2003. It will combine invited papers, workshops, a general session, and cultural activities hosted by local Native American communities. Participants will report on recent and ongoing research, and will discuss emerging trends and paradigms of linguistic work on Athabascan languages. The focus of the invited papers and many of the presentations will be on the identification and analysis of the linguistic changes that have taken place, or are in process, as these unwritten indigenous languages undergo a shift in function from being the primary mode of communication and social solidarity in their communities to being a consciously used marker of ethnic identity in special social contexts. One workshop will consider the changes in function and structure that take place when an Athabascan language is formally taught in college classrooms and codified in pedagogical materials and reference books. Another will consider historical and contemporary changes that have taken place in the complex morphology of the Athabaskan verb as the result of functional shifts in language use.Adaptation and change in language structure and use are important topics not only to linguists but also to the thousands of members of Athabascan-speaking communities in the United States and Canada. These communities are struggling to retain their cultural and linguistic heritage in a society that is overwhelmingly English-speaking. Language education and other retention or revitalization efforts can be improved by understanding of the changes that are taking place in Athabascan languages - even in such widely spoken examples as Navajo - as they move from mainly being acquired as first languages in childhood to mainly being learned as second languages in school and adult life. Conference participants will return to their language revitalization efforts with a clearer sense of what "preservation" entails.

国家科学基金会将支持阿萨巴斯卡语言会议。该会议将于 2003 年 6 月 5 日至 7 日在加利福尼亚州阿卡塔的洪堡州立大学举行。会议将结合特邀论文、研讨会、全体会议以及由当地美洲原住民社区主办的文化活动。参与者将报告最近和正在进行的研究，并将讨论阿萨巴斯卡语语言工作的新兴趋势和范式。受邀论文和许多演讲的重点将是对已经发生或正在发生的语言变化的识别和分析，因为这些不成文的土著语言经历了功能转变，从社区中沟通和社会团结的主要模式转变为特殊社会背景下有意识地使用的民族身份标记。一个研讨会将考虑当阿萨巴斯卡语在大学课堂上正式教授并编入教学材料和参考书中时所发生的功能和结构的变化。另一种方法将考虑由于语言使用的功能转变而导致阿萨巴斯卡语动词的复杂形态发生的历史和当代变化。语言结构和使用的适应和变化不仅对语言学家而且对美国和加拿大阿萨巴斯卡语社区的数千名成员来说都是重要的话题。这些社区正在努力在一个以英语为主的社会中保留其文化和语言遗产。通过了解阿萨巴斯卡语（甚至是纳瓦霍语等广泛使用的语言）正在发生的变化，可以改善语言教育和其他保留或振兴工作，因为它们从主要在儿童时期作为第一语言习得，转变为主要在学校和成人生活中作为第二语言学习。会议参与者将重新致力于语言振兴工作，并更清楚地认识到“保护”的含义。