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

J. P. Harrington 数据库项目：加州和西部的语言

• 批准号: 0418584
• 负责人: Martha Macri
• 金额: $ 37.5万
• 依托单位: University of California-Davis
• 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: 2004-09-01 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0418584&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: J.; P.; Harrington; Database; Project

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.

在国家科学基金会的支持下，玛莎·马克里博士将继续从事J. P.哈灵顿数据库项目的工作，转录和编码J. P.哈灵顿在二十世纪上半叶收集的关于美洲印第安语言的语言学和人种学笔记。他采访的男人和女人往往是最后一批使用他们语言的人。在20世纪80年代，哈灵顿的原始手写现场记录，目前存放在史密森学会的国家人类学档案馆，被微缩拍摄，产生了477卷，其中J. P.哈灵顿数据库正在创建。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。哈灵顿的笔记正在被转录和编码为几个语言和人种学类别。笔记可以从数据库中打印出来，生成词汇表和其他有用数据的可能性几乎是无限的。增加对这一巨大资源的访问对语言学家、生物学家、人类学家、历史学家、地理学家和考古学家都有价值。也许它最大的价值是美洲原住民社区学者用于文化和语言振兴，以及部落历史和家谱的文件。它对那些研究加州多种语言及其复杂的历史关系的人来说是无价的。该项目预计，实际上取决于学术界和当地学者的共同努力，目前正在从事哈灵顿记录的语言和文化的研究。