Doctoral Dissertation Research: Language Contact and Change in J & K Burushaski

博士论文研究：J中的语言接触与变化

• 批准号: 0418333
• 负责人: Anthony Woodbury
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-08-01 至 2006-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0418333&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Language; Contact

Under the supervision of Dr. Anthony Woodbury, Ms. Sadaf Munshi will conduct fieldwork in India on Burushaski for her doctoral dissertation. This research project studies the influence of neighboring languages, Kashmiri and Urdu, on the variety of Burushaski (JKB) spoken in Jammu and Kashmir in India. The study will produce a linguistic description of this undocumented dialect; a sociolinguistic description of the JKB speech community; and a historical linguistic analysis identifying the borrowings and other historical innovations that distinguish JKB from the Burushaski dialects of Pakistan. It will also explore the ways in which JKB retains features from earlier forms of Burushaski that were lost elsewhere. The study will be done primarily from a text-and-discourse-centered approach which aims to deepen the understanding of the language-culture-society relationship.The data will be digitally recorded on audio- and videotapes for analysis and archiving. By providing an archived corpus of data, the project will provide linguists and anthropologists with a significant corpus for analysis both during and after the project term. It is part of a broader effort to document the world's endangered linguistic diversity, for which Burushaski holds special importance since it is a language isolate, that is, it is not provably related to any other known language or language family. The project will also study social factors that affect both the maintenance of JKB up to now in India, as well as its future prospects. This helps sociolinguists understand the general processes at work in language change, as well as the specific situations that lead to the loss of linguistic diversity. Finally, the documentation and analysis produced by this study will contribute to community efforts at language preservation and maintenance.

在Anthony Woodbury博士的指导下，Sadaf Munshi女士将在印度对Burushaski进行实地考察，以完成她的博士论文。本研究项目研究邻近语言克什米尔语和乌尔都语对印度查谟和克什米尔地区布鲁哈斯基语（JKB）多样性的影响。这项研究将产生对这种未被记录的方言的语言描述；JKB言语社区的社会语言学描述；以及历史语言学分析，确定JKB与巴基斯坦布鲁哈斯基方言之间的借用和其他历史创新。它还将探索JKB保留Burushaski早期形式中在其他地方丢失的功能的方式。本研究将主要以文本和话语为中心，旨在加深对语言-文化-社会关系的理解。这些数据将以数字方式记录在录音带和录像带上，以供分析和存档。通过提供存档的数据语料库，该项目将为语言学家和人类学家在项目期间和项目结束后提供重要的语料库进行分析。这是记录世界濒危语言多样性的更广泛努力的一部分，布鲁哈斯基语特别重要，因为它是一种孤立的语言，也就是说，它与任何其他已知语言或语族没有可证明的联系。该项目还将研究到目前为止影响JKB在印度的维护以及其未来前景的社会因素。这有助于社会语言学家理解语言变化的一般过程，以及导致语言多样性丧失的具体情况。最后，本研究产生的文件和分析将有助于社区保护和维护语言。