Dogon Languages of Mali

马里的多贡语

• 批准号: 0853364
• 负责人: Jeffrey Heath
• 金额: $ 31.74万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 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: 2009-06-01 至 2013-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0853364&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dogon; Languages; Mali

There are about twenty Dogon languages in Mali, West Africa, along with one culturally Dogon group that speak a language isolate, Bangi Me. The researchers intend to eventually document all of them and disseminate the data in a coordinated fashion: reference grammars, texts, and especially a rich comparative lexicon disseminated in an interactive website with photographic and video-clip illustrations. During this period, the researchers intend to complete work on Bangi Me and six Dogon languages in addition to the six covered in the expiring grant period. The main typological interest of Dogon languages is a system of word- ('A') and phrase-level ('B') tone-contour overlays. All stems (nouns, verbs, etc.) have at least one high-tone element with or without low tones. In various positions, these lexical tone contours are overridden by superimposed contours. For example, the noun is tone-dropped in the sequence [noun adjective], but not in the sequence [noun numeral]. In combinations like [possessor noun adjective], as in 'Seydou's big house', there is a conflict between the adjective, which tries to impose contour 'A' on the preceding noun, and the possessor, which seeks to impose a different tone contour,'B' on the following noun-adjective sequence. In this case, the possessor wins, and the [noun adjective] portion ends up with phrase-wide 'B' tone contour.The researchers have begun writing a number of separate publications on lexical matters, beginning with action verbs (which profile manner/process rather than, as in English, result/function) and adjectives (which show many "deep" syncretisms, as opposed to figurative extensions). The project also supports bringing a phonetician into the field to undertake several focused studies of phonetic issues that have arisen, including the phonetics of liquids {r ,l}, tones, and vowel features.

在西非的马里，大约有20种多贡语言，沿着一个多贡文化群体，他们说一种孤立的语言，邦吉我。研究人员打算最终记录所有这些语言，并以一种协调的方式传播数据：参考语法，文本，特别是在一个互动网站上传播的丰富的比较词汇，并配有图片和视频剪辑插图。在此期间，研究人员打算完成邦吉我和六个多贡语言的工作，除了六个涵盖在到期的赠款期。多贡语言的主要类型学兴趣是一个词（“A”）和短语（“B”）级别的色调轮廓覆盖系统。所有词干（名词、动词等）具有至少一个带有或不带有低音的高音元件。 在不同的位置，这些词汇音调轮廓被叠加的轮廓覆盖。 例如，在[noun adjective]序列中，名词是降音的，但在[noun numeral]序列中则不是。在像[所有格名词形容词]这样的组合中，比如在“塞杜的大房子”中，形容词和所有格之间存在冲突，前者试图将轮廓“A”强加于前一个名词，后者试图将不同的音调轮廓“B”强加于后一个名词-形容词序列。在这种情况下，物主获胜，[名词形容词]部分最终以短语范围的“B”语调轮廓结束。研究人员已经开始撰写一些关于词汇问题的独立出版物，从动作动词（描述方式/过程，而不是英语中的结果/功能）和形容词（显示许多“深度”融合，而不是比喻性扩展）开始。 该项目还支持将语音学家带入该领域，对出现的语音问题进行几项重点研究，包括液体的语音学{r，l}，音调和元音特征。