Documentation of the Washo Language (WAS)

和商语言 (WAS) 的文档

• 批准号: 0553675
• 负责人: Alan Yu
• 金额: $ 15.94万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-07-01 至 2010-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0553675&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Documentation; Washo; Language; WAS

With support from the National Science Foundation, Dr. Alan Yu will undertake a three-year comprehensive multimedia documentation of Washo, one of the most critically endangered and least documented of Native American languages. The Washo language, which belongs to the Hokan family, is currently spoken by about 13-20 elderly speakers who live in several townships near the California-Nevada border southeast of Lake Tahoe. A full documentation of Washo as it is spoken today will be undertaken. The main objective during the proposed tenure of this project is a detailed study of the phonetics and phonology of the Washo language since a solid understanding of the phonetics and phonology of the language is paramount to understanding the other components of the language (e.g., the morpho-syntax, syntax, and discourse). Another priority for this project is the creation of a web-accessible digital archive to make Washo data accessible to scholars and, of equal or greater importance, to the native community itself. The concrete goal of this digital archive is to produce a bilingual lexicon (including textual references, etymology, audio material and usage notes) of 3000 entries, and less complete documentation (perhaps only morphological information and gloss) for an additional 2000 entries, for a total of 5000 lexical entries.

在美国国家科学基金会的支持下，Alan Yu博士将对Washo进行为期三年的全面多媒体记录，Washo是最濒危和记录最少的美洲土著语言之一。属于Hokan家族的Washo语言目前有大约13-20名老年人使用，他们居住在太浩湖东南部加利福尼亚州和内华达州边境附近的几个乡镇。将对今天发言的Washo进行全面记录。该项目拟议任期内的主要目标是详细研究Washo语言的语音学和音韵学，因为对该语言的语音学和音韵学的深入理解对于理解该语言的其他组成部分至关重要（例如，语法、句法和话语）。该项目的另一个优先事项是创建一个可通过网络访问的数字档案，使学者以及同等或更重要的原住民社区本身能够访问Washo数据。这个数字档案馆的具体目标是制作一个3000个词条的双语词典（包括文本参考、词源、音频材料和用法注释），以及另外2000个词条的不太完整的文档（可能只有形态信息和注释），总共5000个词条。