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的口头系统的综合分析。主要目的是记录连接流畅文本的真实例子，并提供引出动词形式的分析体，以及简单和复杂的分句，并对动词形式进行类型学和理论分析。作为对Ho动词的第一次详细的语言分析，该项目特别有助于Munda语言学，以及更广泛的南亚和南亚研究。何词形是高度复杂和粘连的。到目前为止，还没有对动词中出现的语素的完整描述。除了单独描述语素外，该项目还解决了Ho中语音和语法单词之间明显不匹配的本质；Ho动词的及物性包括变价词缀和子句级及物性；以及Ho中的连动动词和复合动词，以便了解这种高度粘连的语言中助动词是如何起作用的。这项研究是与印度贾坎德邦以何语为母语的人合作进行的。该项目以兰契为基地，与说荷语的大学生合作，但也包括前往查巴萨周围的村庄，录制老年人，特别是女性的录音。这个项目唯一最重要的长期利益是由何族人自己记录和保存何语。霍语目前在日常生活中使用；然而，几乎所有的人都会说印地语和其他地区语言，如奥里亚语（印度-雅利安语）。这个项目有助于提高以英语为母语的人的意识，让他们意识到，在英语仍在日常使用的时候，是时候记录下它了。

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.