J. P. Harrington Database Project: Languages of California and the West

在国家科学基金会的支持下，玛莎·马克里博士将继续进行J·P·哈林顿数据库项目的工作，转录和编码J·P·哈林顿在20世纪上半叶收集的关于美国印第安人语言的语言和人种学笔记。他采访的男男女女往往是最后会说自己语言的人。20世纪80年代，哈林顿的原始手写田野笔记被缩微拍摄下来，产生了477个卷轴，J·P·哈林顿数据库就是从这些卷轴上创建的。哈灵顿笔记目前保存在史密森学会的国家人类学档案馆中。这个项目首先关注加州笔记，包括俄勒冈州、内华达州和华盛顿州部分地区的一些语言。哈林顿的笔记正在转录和编码，用于几个语言和民族志类别。笔记可以从数据库打印出来，生成词汇表和其他有用数据的可能性几乎是无限的。对语言学家、生物学家、人类学家、历史学家、地理学家和考古学家来说，更多地获得这一巨大资源是有价值的。也许它最大的价值是对美洲原住民社区的学者来说，用于文化和语言复兴，以及记录部落历史和谱系。对于那些研究加州的多种语言及其复杂的历史关系的人来说，它是无价的。该项目期待并依赖于学术界和目前从事哈林顿记录的语言和文化研究的土著学者的共同努力。

With National Science Foundation support, Dr. Martha Macri will continue work on the J. P. Harrington Database Project, transcribing and coding the linguistic and ethnographic notes on American Indian languages collected by J. P. Harrington during the first half of the twentieth century. The men and women he interviewed were often among the last speakers of their languages. During the 1980s, Harrington's original handwritten field notes, currently housed in the National Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian Institution, were microfilmed, resulting in 477 reels from which the J. P. Harrington Database is being created. This project focuses first on the California notes and includes some languages of Oregon, Nevada, and parts of Washington.Harrington's notes are being transcribed and coded for several linguistic and ethnographic categories. The notes can be printed from the database, and the possibilities for generating lexical lists and other useful data are virtually endless. Increased access to this enormous resource is of value to linguists, biologists, anthropologists, historians, geographers, and archaeologists. Perhaps its greatest value is to Native American community scholars for use in cultural and language revitalization, as well as for documentation of tribal histories and genealogies. It is invaluable to those studying the many languages of California, and their complex historical relationships. The project anticipates, and indeed depends on, the combined efforts of the academic community and native scholars currently engaged in the study of the languages and cultures recorded by Harrington.