Plains Indian Sign Language DEL Project: Summer 2010 Meeting and Workshops

平原印度手语 DEL 项目：2010 年夏季会议和研讨会

• 批准号: 1027735
• 负责人: Jeffrey Davis
• 金额: $ 4.97万
• 依托单位: University of Tennessee Knoxville
• 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: 2010-07-01 至 2011-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1027735&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Plains; Indian; Sign; Language; DEL

Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL) Documentation Workshop, Summer 2010With support of the NSF DEL program, co-PIs and sign language linguists Dr. Jeffrey Davis (University of Tennessee) and Melanie McKay-Cody (Chickamauga Cherokee/Choctaw, William Woods University) are conducting the first fieldwork in over 50 years to focus on the linguistic structure of Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL). Based on recent fieldwork in 2009, the co-PIs have identified more than two-dozen PISL signers, including women and deaf tribal members, from among the Northern Cheyenne, Crow, Blackfeet, Assiniboine, and Mandan-Hidatsa. This demonstrates that PISL continues to be used within Plains tribal groups and still functions as an intertribal signed lingua franca. Formal linguistic documentation and description of PISL has been long overdue, and this workshop will present the latest findings and insights about the linguistic nature and structure of PISL, the outcomes of signed language-spoken language contact, and the conveyance of human language in signed and spoken modalities. The workshop will be held on the Northern Cheyenne reservation, August 2010; and, will involve participants from several tribal groups and colleges. In collaboration with personnel from Montana State University, Billings, Little Bighorn National Monument, and Dull Knife Memorial College, it will be widely publicized and it is anticipated that more PISL signers will be identified. The workshop will showcase and disseminate recent findings about PISL usage, lexicon, and grammar. For the first time, it will bring together sign language linguists and Deaf and American Indian individuals to train them in linguistics, field methods, and language documentation technologies (e.g. ELAN). Working with Native signers, the co-PIs are transcribing/glossing and translating PISL using ELAN; identifying lexical-grammatical categories; and, conducting comparative syntactic analyses. These findings will be submitted to peer-reviewed linguistic research journals, contribute to the compilation of a PISL dictionary with grammatical descriptions, and integrated into the project website/online digital archive of American Indian sign language documentary materials, so that the broadest possible audiences will have access to them.

平原印第安人手语（PISL）文献研讨会，2010年夏季在NSF DEL计划的支持下，共同PI和手语语言学家杰弗里·戴维斯博士（田纳西大学）和梅勒妮·麦凯-科迪（奇卡莫加切罗基/乔托，威廉伍兹大学）正在进行50多年来的首次实地考察，重点关注平原印第安人手语（PISL）的语言结构。根据2009年最近的实地调查，联合PI已经确定了20多名PISL签名者，包括来自北方夏延、克罗、黑脚、阿西尼博因和曼丹希达察的妇女和聋人部落成员。这表明，PISL继续在平原部落群体中使用，仍然是部落间的签名弗兰卡。 正式的语言文件和PISL的描述已经姗姗来迟，本次研讨会将提出有关PISL的语言性质和结构，签署语言口语接触的结果，以及人类语言在签署和口语模式的传输的最新发现和见解。 讲习班将于2010年8月在北方夏延保留地举行，将有来自若干部落群体和学院的与会者参加。 与蒙大拿州立大学、比林斯、小大角羊国家纪念碑和钝刀纪念学院的工作人员合作，将广泛宣传这一倡议，预计将确定更多的PISL签名者。研讨会将展示和传播有关PISL用法，词汇和语法的最新研究结果。 这是第一次，它将汇集手语语言学家和聋人和美洲印第安人，对他们进行语言学，实地方法和语言文献技术（例如ELAN）的培训。与本地签名者合作，co-PI使用ELAN转录/注释和翻译PISL;识别词汇语法类别;并进行比较句法分析。 这些研究结果将提交给同行评审的语言学研究期刊，有助于编纂一本附有语法说明的PISL词典，并纳入项目网站/美洲印第安人手语文献资料在线数字档案，以便尽可能多的受众能够获得这些资料。