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

合作研究：Kawapanan 项目：为 Shiwilu (jeb) 和 Shawi (cbt) 的记录构建灵活的数据

• 批准号: 0853285
• 负责人: Pilar Valenzuela
• 金额: $ 8.98万
• 依托单位: Chapman University
• 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: 2009-09-15 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0853285&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Kawapanan; Project; Building

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.

该奖项支持来自秘鲁亚马逊河流域的Kawapanan部落仅存的两名成员的文献：Shiwilu （JEB）和Shawi （CBT）。对于石威录来说，记录工作尤其紧迫，因为石威录正面临完全消失的危险，只剩下少数几个能说一口流利语言的老年人。该奖项还支持可重复使用软件的开发，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和数字化现有的词表和语法资料，以及通过顾问的数字音频/视频记录收集该领域的原始数据。材料包括：自发文本、问卷、启发和单词表。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。正在为社区成员举办四个讲习班，以提高对社会语言学的认识，鼓励社区参与文献工作，并促进土著语文的读写能力。该项目将记录下卡瓦帕南和亚马逊文化知识的永久记录，这些文化知识可能会在短短一代人的时间内消失。由于对Kawapanan整体的系统描述工作很少，因此对Shiwilu和Shawi的研究可能对该领域具有很高的科学影响。它通过对特定特征的描述，如一组亚马逊河流域不常见的辅音、分类系统、高度复杂的动词和语用否定标记，为语言类型化做出了贡献。此外，该项目有助于Kawapanan的重建，这将有助于阐明其可能被纳入更大的家庭或种群。此外，该项目还包括使用最先进的数字音频/视频记录，以及开发开放的、可重用的Unicode/XML注释数据。所有数据都将保存在一个永久的档案中，以供子孙后代使用。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，为描述、计算或理论语言学家以及人类学家、语言学习者或教育家服务。该项目回应了Kawapanan社区的要求，他们正在努力保护自己的语言。由此产生的语言描述、工作坊和以学习者为导向的资源将对振兴工作至关重要。最后，该项目有助于培养两名语言学学生。