Doctoral Dissertation Research on Ho Morphophonology and Morphosyntax with Documentation

该项目是对Ho语言系统的全面分析，Ho是印度中东部使用的北蒙达语。主要目的是记录连接流畅的文本的真实例子，并提供一个分析的身体，引发动词形式，以及简单和复杂的条款，并制定一个类型学和理论上知情的Ho动词形式的分析。作为第一个详细的语言学分析Ho动词，这个项目有助于蒙达语言学，特别是，以及更广泛的南亚和南亚研究。动词形态学是一个高度复杂和粘着的系统。到目前为止，还没有对动词中出现的语素进行完整的描述。除了单独描述语素外，该项目还讨论了Ho中语音和语法单词之间明显不匹配的性质; Ho动词的及物性，包括价变化词缀和小句级别的及物性;以及Ho中的串行和复合动词，以了解这种高度粘合的语言中的辅助作用。这项研究是与印度贾坎德的母语为Ho语的人合作进行的。该项目以兰契为基地，与说荷语的大学生合作，但也涉及到前往柴巴萨周围的村庄，为年长的，特别是女性说话者录音。这个项目最重要的长期利益是由Ho人自己记录和保存Ho语言。Ho语言目前在日常使用的发言者;然而，几乎所有的发言者都与印地语和其他地区语言，如Oriya（印度雅利安语）双语。这个项目有助于提高母语者的意识，即现在是记录语言的时候了，而它仍然在日常使用中。

The project is a comprehensive analysis of the verbal system of Ho, a North Munda language spoken in Central Eastern India. The primary aims are to document authentic examples of connected fluent text and to provide an analyzed body of elicited verb forms, as well as simple and complex clauses, and to develop a typologically and theoretically-informed analysis of Ho verb forms.As the first detailed linguistic analysis of Ho verbs, this project contributes to Munda linguistics particularly, as well as to Austro-Asiatic and South Asian studies more generally. Ho verbal morphology is highly complex and agglutinating. Thus far, there is no complete description of the morphemes that appear in the verb. As well as describing the morphemes individually, the project addresses the nature of the apparent mismatch between phonological and grammatical words in Ho; transitivity in Ho verbs including valence-changing affixes and clause-level transitivity; and serial and compound verbs in Ho in order to understand how auxiliation works in this highly agglutinating language. The research is conducted collaboratively with native Ho speakers in Jharkhand, India. The project is based in Ranchi, working with Ho-speaking university students, but also involves travel to villages around Chaibasa to make recordings of older, specifically female, speakers. The single most important long-term benefit of this project is the documentation and preservation of the Ho language by the Ho people themselves. The Ho language is currently in daily use by its speakers; however, nearly all speakers are bilingual with Hindi and other regional languages, such as Oriya (Indo-Aryan). This project helps raise awareness among native speakers that the time to document the language is now, while it is still in daily use.