The language of the Cherangany - living language, culture and contact in a colonial construct

Cherangany 的语言 - 殖民建筑中的活语言、文化和接触

• 批准号: 192037699
• 负责人: Privatdozentin Dr. Angelika Mietzner
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Abteilung Afrikanistik
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2010-12-31 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/192037699?language=en
• 关键词: language; Cherangany; living; culture; contact

The aim of the project is to specify the Grammar of Cherangany in various fields with particular consideration of culture, perception and communication. In the ongoing project the description of Cherangany is combined with a synchronic and diachronic study of the other Marakwet languages, Endo, Kiptani and Almoo.In the last two years, the applicant gained new insights into the wide range of polysemies in the morphology, as well as into the fascinating culture-specific lexicon. Moreover, the investigations provide evidence of the political construct Marakwet which cannot be sufficiently described without considering the language ideology and areal aspects.Belonging to the Kalenjin languages which are part of Southern Nilotic, the Marakwet language group is a colonial ethnolinguistic construct. It does not display a homogenous language group but rather consists of at least two divergent groups (Rottland 1982, Kipkorir 1985, Mietzner 2009).Therefore in the course of this project the colonial construct Marakwet is linguistically deconstructed in a comparative approach to grammar, lexicon, semantics and typology.Provided that the project is extended, certain fields of the language will be described that have only marginally been considered before. In this respect it is of great advantage that the applicant has a good knowledge of sociology and that an assistant is integrated into the project who is doing his PhD in social studies.Lüpke und Storch (2013) point out that speakers of a language act and react due to the contact they have and due to the environment they live in. The comparative study of the Marakwet languages raise the question of language contact and contact areas. As a result of these studies that were undertaken on the various Marakwet languages, Endo, Cherangany, Almoo and Kiptani, further comparative studies in the field of language ideology and areality will be conducted. These new aspects require that new methodological and theoretical perspectives will be taken into account, although the comparison of the languages will continue to represent the focus of the project.If this application is approved, the description of the Cherangany language will develop into a description of the Cherangany language embedded in its sociolinguistic context.

该项目的目的是具体说明Cherangany语在各个领域的语法，特别考虑到文化、感知和交流。在正在进行的项目中，对Cherangany的描述与对其他马拉克韦语（Endo， Kiptani和Almoo）的共时和历时研究相结合。在过去的两年里，申请人对广泛的词法多义词有了新的认识，对迷人的文化特定词汇也有了新的认识。此外，这些调查提供了证据，证明了马拉克维特的政治结构，如果不考虑语言、意识形态和地域方面，就无法充分描述它。马拉克维特语属于南尼罗河的一部分卡伦津语，是一种殖民民族语言结构。它并没有显示出一个同质的语言群体，而是由至少两个不同的群体组成（Rottland 1982, Kipkorir 1985, Mietzner 2009）。因此，在这个项目的过程中，殖民建筑Marakwet在语法、词汇、语义和类型学的比较方法中被解构。如果项目得到扩展，语言的某些领域将被描述，而这些领域以前只被略微考虑过。在这方面，申请人具有良好的社会学知识，并且在项目中有一名正在攻读社会学博士学位的助理是非常有利的。l<e:1> pke和Storch（2013）指出，一种语言的使用者的行为和反应取决于他们所拥有的接触和他们所处的环境。对马拉克维特语的比较研究提出了语言接触和接触区域的问题。由于对各种马拉克韦语、远多语、切兰加尼语、阿尔穆语和基普塔尼语进行了这些研究，将在语言意识形态和现实领域进行进一步的比较研究。这些新的方面要求考虑到新的方法和理论观点，尽管语文的比较将继续是该项目的重点。如果这一申请获得批准，对Cherangany语言的描述将发展成为嵌入其社会语言学背景的Cherangany语言描述。