Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Descriptive Grammar of Karbi

博士论文研究：Karbi 的描述语法

• 批准号: 0951749
• 负责人: Scott DeLancey
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: University of Oregon Eugene
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-02-15 至 2013-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0951749&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Descriptive; Grammar

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.

Karbi是一种藏缅语（TB），约有50万人使用，位于印度东北部阿萨姆邦的Karbi Anglong区。其在结核病家族中的遗传联系仍不清楚。以前的治疗提供了关于语言的信息;然而，需要详细的文档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言家族之间的共性和差异。迄今为止，数百种结核病语言中的大多数仍然没有被描述或描述不足。该项目支持在Karbi Anglong的实地考察，并关注自然数据的收集和分析，这些数据反映了该语言在社区日常生活中的实际使用情况。该项目的执行是基于来自俄勒冈州大学和Karbi Lammet Amei（Karbi文学协会）的语言学家之间的密切合作。共同主要研究者将培训社区成员，以帮助收集和分析数据。该项目将产生一个现代的，详细的描述性语法，也将有助于了解Karbi文化和文化知识，并通过与其他结核病语言的遗传关系来了解印度东北部的历史。该项目的合作基础将创建一个创新的语言学家-社区互动模式，这不仅从伦理角度来看是可取的，而且具有重要的优势，通过培训社区成员帮助记录和分析口头文本，帮助积累更多的数据和更多的自然数据。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，并可能加强该地区其他少数民族语言的地位。