Moro Language Project

摩洛语言项目

• 批准号: 0745973
• 负责人: Sharon Rose
• 金额: $ 19.99万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-05-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0745973&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Moro; Language; Project

Moro is a Kordofanian language spoken in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan in Sudan. Kordofanian languages have received little attention in the linguistics literature and constitute one of the most poorly described and threatened language families in Africa. The current project aims to fill this void by producing a descriptive grammar, analytical papers, and a dictionary focusing on Thetogovela, a previously undescribed dialect of Moro. Research to date reveals that many phenomena in Moro present intriguing challenges for linguistic analysis, and provide new data for grammatical typology and relationships between Kordofanian and other Niger-Congo languages. Several especially noteworthy phenomena are: (1) the status of tone in Moro, a previously disputed aspect of the language, which is shown to interact with word formation and sentence structure, (2) a complex verb system that displays several distinctive methods of marking grammatical subjects and objects, and (3) a striking set of properties connecting relative clauses and questions. The project involves close collaboration between speakers of the Moro community, the principal investigators and graduate students, and will make a lasting contribution to African linguistics.

摩罗语（英语：Moro）是苏丹南科尔多凡州努巴山区的一种科尔多凡语。科尔多凡语在语言学文献中很少受到关注，是非洲描述最少和最受威胁的语系之一。目前的项目旨在填补这一空白，通过制作一个描述性的语法，分析论文，和一本字典集中在Thetogovela，以前未描述的摩罗方言。迄今为止的研究表明，摩罗语中的许多现象对语言分析提出了有趣的挑战，并为语法类型学和科尔多凡语与其他刚果-刚果语言之间的关系提供了新的数据。有几个特别值得注意的现象是：（1）摩罗语中声调的地位，这是语言中一个先前有争议的方面，它被证明与构词法和句子结构相互作用;（2）一个复杂的动词系统，显示出几种标记语法主语和宾语的独特方法;（3）一组引人注目的连接关系从句和疑问句的属性。该项目涉及摩罗社区发言人、主要调查人员和研究生之间的密切合作，将对非洲语言学作出持久贡献。