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

在美国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·哈林顿数据库项目的工作，对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进行转录和编码。他采访的男人和女人往往是他们语言的最后使用者。在20世纪80年代，哈林顿的原始手写现场笔记被缩微拍摄，目前保存在史密森学会的国家人类学档案馆，由此产生了477卷，J. P.哈林顿数据库正在创建中。这个项目首先关注加利福尼亚的纸币，包括俄勒冈州、内华达州和华盛顿部分地区的一些语言。哈林顿的笔记正在被转录和编码成几种语言和人种学类别。注释可以从数据库中打印出来，生成词法列表和其他有用数据的可能性实际上是无穷无尽的。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，增加对这一巨大资源的访问是有价值的。也许它最大的价值在于，对于美洲原住民社区的学者来说，它可以用于文化和语言的复兴，也可以用于部落历史和家谱的记录。对于那些研究加州的多种语言以及它们之间复杂的历史关系的人来说，这是无价的。该项目预计，也确实依赖于学术界和当地学者的共同努力，这些学者目前正在研究哈林顿所记录的语言和文化。

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.