A Basic Grammar of Croatian Sign Language

克罗地亚手语基本语法

• 批准号: 0345314
• 负责人: Ronnie Wilbur
• 金额: $ 39.99万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-05-15 至 2011-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0345314&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Basic; Grammar; Croatian; Sign; Language

With National Science Foundation support, Dr. Ronnie Wilbur will lead an international team of American and Croatian researchers in a five year investigation of the linguistic structure of Croatian Sign Language (HZJ). With Dr. Ljubica Pribanic at the University of Zagreb, our goal is to construct a basic grammatical description of HZJ. Many deaf children in Croatia and in the U.S. will benefit from this collaborative research because it will have immediate application to the development of curricular materials for teaching sign language, training sign language interpreters, speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and educating teachers of the deaf about how early sign language usage can foster improved literacy and academic achievement with deaf children. Two scientific questions motivate this project. First, how divergent are sign language structures? This question reflects the interest in determining the effects that modality of perception and production has on the nature of signed and spoken languages. We will be able to compare HZJ with ASL, Austrian Sign Language (OGS), and other signed languages. We focus on five general areas of inquiry: transitive declarative sentences, yes/no-questions, wh-questions, negation and verbal morphology. These results speak to the core issues of human conceptual structure and its mapping onto natural languages. Second, what is the influence of spoken languages on indigenous sign languages? This grammar will be the first on a sign language used in a Slavic speaking country. The proposed comparison with other signed languages, and with their local spoken languages, is novel to the field of sign language research and should yield new insights into our understanding of the notion "natural human language".

在国家科学基金会的支持下，Ronnie Wilbur博士将领导一个由美国和克罗地亚研究人员组成的国际团队，对克罗地亚手语(HZJ)的语言结构进行为期五年的调查。与萨格勒布大学的Ljubica Pribanic博士合作，我们的目标是构建HZJ的基本语法描述。克罗地亚和美国的许多聋儿将从这项合作研究中受益，因为它将立即应用于手语教学课程材料的开发，培训手语翻译员、言语病理学家、听力学家，并教育聋人教师早期使用手语如何提高聋童的识字能力和学业成就。有两个科学问题推动了这个项目。首先，手语结构的差异有多大？这个问题反映了人们对确定感知和生产方式对手语和口语性质的影响的兴趣。我们将能够将HZJ与美国手语、奥地利手语(OGS)和其他手语进行比较。我们主要研究五个方面：及物性陈述句、是/否疑问句、wh疑问句、否定句和动词词法。这些结果说明了人类概念结构及其到自然语言的映射的核心问题。第二，口语对土著手语的影响是什么？该语法将是第一个关于斯拉夫语国家使用的手语的语法。所提出的与其他手语及其当地口语的比较，对于手语研究领域来说是新的，应该会为我们对“自然人类语言”这一概念的理解提供新的见解。