Continuing Support for Aleu t Linguistics and Language Learning Materiials

持续支持阿鲁语语言学和语言学习材料

• 批准号: 0807245
• 负责人: Anna Berge
• 金额: $ 18.46万
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0807245&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Continuing; Support; Aleu; Linguistics; Language

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.

这个奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。这个项目由阿拉斯加大学的安娜伯格是继续研究，这是包括在她的早期项目阿留申语，这是作为NSF职业奖资助。 最初的CAREER项目的目标是记录濒危的阿留申语的句法和话语方面，并为成年人制作语言学习材料。CAREER项目下的研究产生了意想不到的录音数量，这些录音被转录，分析并纳入大学课程的语言学习材料。 这个项目将继续转录和分析的许多剩余的录音与学生助理的支持。 此外，新的研究目标已经确定，包括话语，隐喻和东部阿留申语表达的变化的调查。 这项研究是至关重要的，因为许多流利的发言者都是非常年长的，这里支持的语言学研究以前没有在学术文献中描述过。 通过收集以前没有记录的文本类型，以及专注于分析较少研究的语言使用水平，该项目将导致对当代阿留申语的理解做出重大贡献，以及对爱斯基摩-阿留申语语言学和普通语言学领域的独特贡献。 预计语言文件和材料的编制将导致阿留申语教师和新的使用者的培训，从而有助于阿留申语社区的语言振兴和维护工作。