Doctoral Dissertation Research on Ho Morphophonology and Morphosyntax with Documentation

该项目是对印度中东部使用的北蒙达语Ho的言语系统的全面分析。该项目的主要目的是记录流畅连接的文本的真实例子，并提供引出的动词形式以及简单和复杂从句的分析正文，并从类型学和理论上对Ho动词形式进行分析。作为对Ho动词的第一次详细的语言学分析，本项目对蒙达语言学以及更广泛的南亚和南亚研究做出了特别的贡献。何氏动词形态具有高度的复杂性和粘性。到目前为止，还没有关于动词中出现的语素的完整描述。除了单独描述语素外，该项目还研究了Ho中语音和语法单词之间明显不匹配的本质；Ho动词中的及物性，包括配价变化的词缀和小句级别的及物性；Ho中的串联动词和复合动词，以了解助词在这种高度粘合的语言中是如何起作用的。这项研究是与印度恰尔肯德邦以Ho为母语的人合作进行的。该项目的总部设在兰奇，与讲Ho语的大学生合作，但也包括前往柴巴萨周围的村庄为年长的说话者，特别是女性说话者录音。这一项目唯一最重要的长期利益是由瑶族人自己记录和保存瑶语。霍语目前为其使用者日常使用；然而，几乎所有的使用者都使用印地语和其他区域语言，如奥里亚语(印度语-雅利安语)。该项目有助于提高以英语为母语的人意识到，现在是记录这种语言的时候，而这种语言仍然在日常使用中。

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.