Doctoral Dissertation Research: Grammar of Kurripako-Ehe Dialect

在Jane Hill博士的指导下，Tania Granadillo女士将为她的博士论文收集和分析语言学数据。她的研究涉及Kurripako的Ehe方言，这是一种濒临灭绝的阿拉瓦克语，在委内瑞拉大约有2000人使用。收集数据的方法主要有两种：一种是通过与母语人士的访谈直接引出单词和句子，另一种是对自然发生的语言进行录音。所收集的文本将被选择来代表当前使用Ehe的各种社会和文化背景。在这些材料的基础上，Granadillo将描述和分析语言的词汇、语音和语法特征。最终的语法描述将针对科学读者，包括社会语言学家和人类学家。但是，编写教学材料的教师可以使用它们。这些录音将构成一个声音档案，提供关于埃赫语及其使用的书面记录。语法和档案的副本将留在Ehe社区，并有望为社区领导人制定的计划做出贡献，以开发修订的实用方言正字法，并制作材料，向后代教授他们的语言。

Under the direction of Dr. Jane Hill, Ms. Tania Granadillo will collect and analyze linguistic data for her doctoral dissertation. Her research concerns the Ehe dialect of Kurripako, an endangered Arawakan language spoken in Venezuela with approximately 2,000 speakers. Two main methods will be used to collect data: direct elicitation of words and sentences through interviews with native speakers, and audio-recording of naturally occurring speech. The texts collected will be chosen to represent a variety of the social and cultural contexts in which Ehe is currently being used. On the basis of this material, Granadillo will describe and analyze the lexical, phonological and grammatical features of the language.The resulting grammatical descriptions will be aimed at a scientific audience, including sociolinguists and anthropologists. But they will be accessible to teachers developing pedagogical materials. The recordings will constitute a sound archive that will provide a documentary record of the Ehe language and its use. Copies of both the grammar and the archive will be left with the Ehe community and are expected to contribute to plans by community leaders to develop a revised practical orthography of the dialect, and produce materials to teach their language to future generations.