Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Descriptive Grammar of Karbi

卡尔比语是一种藏缅(TB)语言，印度东北部阿萨姆邦Karbi Anglong区约有50万人说卡尔比语。它在结核病家族中的遗传关系尚不清楚。以前的治疗提供了关于这种语言的信息；然而，需要详细的文件和语法分析，作为类型学家的比较资源，他们试图了解世界语言和语系之间的共性和差异。直到今天，数百种结核病语言中的大多数仍未被描述或描述不足。该项目支持Karbi Anglong的实地工作，并致力于收集和分析反映该语言在社区日常生活中实际使用情况的自然数据。该项目的实施是基于俄勒冈大学的语言学家和卡尔比·拉梅特·阿梅(卡尔比文学协会)之间的密切合作。联合PI将对社区成员进行培训，以帮助收集和分析数据。该项目将制作一种现代的、详细的描述性语法，通过计算出与其他结核病语言的遗传关系，也将有助于理解卡尔比文化和文化知识，以及印度东北部的历史。该项目的合作基础将创建一种语言学家-社区互动的创新模式，这不仅从伦理角度来看是可取的，而且通过培训社区成员帮助记录和分析口头文本，有助于积累更多的数据和更自然的数据，具有重要的优势。技术语言语法将是教学语法的先决条件，这将有助于加强卡尔比语的地位，并有可能加强该地区其他少数民族语言的地位。

Karbi is a Tibeto-Burman (TB) language spoken by about half a million speakers located in the Karbi Anglong District of Assam, Northeast India. Its genetic affiliation within the TB family has remained unclear. Previous treatments provide information on the language; however, a detailed documentation and grammatical analysis is needed as a comparative resource for typologists, who seek to understand commonalities and differences between languages and language families of the world. Most of the several hundreds of TB languages have remained un- or under-described to the present day. This project supports fieldwork in Karbi Anglong, and is concerned with the collection and analysis of naturalistic data reflecting how the language is actually spoken in the everyday life of the community. The execution of the project is based on strong collaboration between linguists from the University of Oregon and the Karbi Lammet Amei (Karbi Literary Association). The co-PI will train community members to help with data collection and analysis. This project will produce a modern, detailed descriptive grammar that will also contribute to the understanding of Karbi culture and cultural knowledge, and of the history of Northeast India by working out genetic relationships to other TB languages. The collaborative foundation of the project will create an innovative model of linguist-community interaction, which is not only preferable from an ethical standpoint but also has the important advantage to help accumulate more data and more naturalistic data by training community members to help with recording and analysis of oral texts. A technical linguistic grammar will be the prerequisite for a pedagogical grammar that will help strengthen the status of Karbi, and potentially other minority languages in the area.