Continuing Support for Aleu t Linguistics and Language Learning Materiials

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。阿拉斯加大学的Anna Berge的这个项目是为了继续她早期的阿留申语项目的研究，该项目获得了美国国家科学基金会职业奖的资助。最初的CAREER项目的目标是记录濒临灭绝的阿留申语的语法和话语方面，并为成年人创建语言学习材料。在CAREER项目下的研究产生了意想不到的大量录音，这些录音被转录、分析并纳入大学水平课程的语言学习材料。该项目将在学生助理的支持下继续转录和分析许多剩余的录音。此外，新的研究目标已经设定，包括话语，隐喻和变异的东阿留申语表达的调查。这项研究非常重要，因为许多说流利英语的人都很老，而且这里支持的语言学研究以前没有在学术文献中描述过。通过收集以前未记录的文本类型，以及专注于分析研究较少的语言使用水平，该项目将对理解当代阿留申人做出重大贡献，并对爱斯基摩-阿留申语言学和一般语言学领域做出独特贡献。预计语文文献和材料的发展将导致阿留申语文教师和新发言者的培训，有助于阿留申社区的语文振兴和维持努力。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This project by Anna Berge at the University of Alaska is to continue the research that was encompassed in her earlier project on the Aleut language that was funded as an NSF CAREER award. The goals of the original CAREER project were to document aspects of the syntax and discourse of the endangered Aleut language and to create language learning materials for adults. The research under the CAREER project generated an unanticipated amount of sound recordings, which were transcribed, analyzed, and incorporated into language learning materials for college-level coursework. This project will continue the transcription and analysis of many of the remaining recordings with the support of a student assistant. In addition, new research goals have been set to include the investigation of discourse, metaphor and variability in expression of the Eastern Aleut language. This research is critically important as many of the fluent speaker are very elderly and the linguistic research supported here has not previously been described in the academic literature. By collecting previously undocumented types of texts as well as focusing on analyses of less-well studied levels of language use, this project will result in major contributions to the understanding of contemporary Aleut, as well as in unique contributions in to the fields of Eskimo-Aleut Linguistics and General Linguistics. It is anticipated that language documentation and materials development will result in the training of Aleut language teachers and in new speakers, contributing to language revitalization and maintenance efforts in the Aleut communities.