Collaborative Research: The Kawapanan Project: Building Flexible Data for the Documentation of Shiwilu (JEB) and Shawi (CBT)

该奖项支持了来自秘鲁亚马逊河流域的卡瓦帕南组仅存的两名成员的文献：Shiwilu（JEB）和Shawi（CBT）。 对Shiwilu来说，纪录片的工作尤为紧迫，因为它正面临着完全消失的危险，只剩下几个上了年纪的流利的人。 该奖项还支持开发可重复使用的软件，以帮助为语言学家制作科学材料和为社区成员制作教学材料。 该项目的目标包括汇编现有的词汇表和语法信息并使之数字化，以及通过顾问的数字音频/视频记录收集实地的原始数据。材料包括：自发文本、问卷调查、启发和词汇表。 由此产生的语料库将被转录，翻译成西班牙语和英语，分析和处理，以产生数据库，字典，语法和文本集合。 目前正在为社区成员举办四次讲习班，以提高社会语言意识，鼓励社区参与文献工作，并促进土著语言的扫盲，该项目将永久记录可能在短短一代人的时间内消失的卡瓦帕南和亚马逊文化知识。 对Shiwilu和Shawi的研究可能会对该领域产生很大的科学影响，因为对Kawapanan的系统描述工作很少。 它有助于语言类型学通过描述特定的功能，如一套不寻常的亚马逊辅音，分类系统，高度复杂的动词，和语用作格标记。此外，该项目还有助于卡瓦帕南的重建，这将有助于揭示其可能被纳入更大的家族或种群。此外，该项目还包括使用最先进的数字音频/视频记录，以及以Unicode/XML开发开放、可重复使用的注释数据。 所有数据都将保存在永久档案中，供子孙后代使用。 [On在技术方面，主要的智力价值是数据的再利用：生产灵活的数据，以服务于描述，计算或理论语言学家以及人类学家，语言学习者或教育家。该项目响应了卡瓦帕南社区的要求，他们正在努力保护自己的语言。由此产生的语言说明、讲习班和面向学习者的资源将对振兴工作至关重要。 最后，该项目有助于培训两名语言学生。

This award supports the documentation of the only two extant members of the Kawapanan group from Peruvian Amazonia: Shiwilu (JEB) and Shawi (CBT). Documentary work is especially urgent for Shiwilu, since it is in immediate danger of complete disappearance with only a few elderly fluent speakers remaining. The award also supports the development of reusable software to aid in the production of scientific materials for the linguists and pedagogical materials for community members. The goals of the project include compiling and digitizing existing wordlists and grammar information, as well as the collection of primary data in the field through digital audio/video recording of consultants. The materials include: spontaneous texts, questionnaires, elicitation, and wordlists. The resulting corpus will be transcribed, translated into Spanish and English, analyzed and processed in order to produce databases, dictionaries, grammars, and text collections. Four workshops for community members are being held to raise sociolinguistic awareness, to encourage community involvement in the documentation, and to promote literacy in the native languages.The project will capture a permanent record of Kawapanan and Amazonian cultural knowledge that will likely disappear in as little as one generation. A study of Shiwilu and Shawi may have a high scientific impact on the field as there is little systematic descriptive work on Kawapanan as a whole. It contributes to linguistic typology through the description of specific features such as a set of consonants unusual for the Amazon, classifier systems, highly complex verbs, and pragmatic ergative marking. Also, the project contributes to the reconstruction of Kawapanan, which will help to shed light on its possible inclusion in a larger family or stock. Furthermore, the project includes the use of state-of-the-art digital audio/video recording, and the development of open, reusable annotated data in Unicode/XML. All data will be preserved in a lasting archive for posterity. [On the technical side, the main intellectual merit is data re-purposing: the production of flexible data to serve the descriptive, computational, or theoretical linguist as well as the anthropologist, the language learner or educator.] The project responds to the demands of the Kawapanan communities, who are striving to preserve their languages. The resulting linguistic descriptions, workshops, and learner-oriented resources will be crucial to revitalization efforts. Finally, the project contributes to the training of two linguistic students.