Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Reference Grammar of Kove

博士论文研究：Kove的参考语法

• 批准号: 1053199
• 负责人: Robert Blust
• 金额: $ 0.42万
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-06-01 至 2013-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1053199&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Reference; Grammar

Kove is an endangered Austronesian language spoken in the West New Britain province of Papua New Guinea. About 8,000 people live in the area, but many are not fluent speakers of Kove. Community members are rapidly losing language competence and switching to the use of Tok Pisin and English as lingua francas for communication. This change has several causes: modernization in general (e.g., use of lingua franca mass media); the fact that more Kove now go to school, where English is the language of instruction; and increasing social interaction with non-Kove speakers (e.g., due to the mobility brought by modern transportation). Knowledge of the Kove language and traditional culture is no longer being transmitted orally from one generation to the next.The goal of this dissertation project is to produce a reference grammar and a small dictionary, based on elicitation and texts in a corpus collected during fieldtrips. The corpus will include narratives, public events, and conversations recorded in both audio and video formats. Texts will be transcribed and annotated with IPA transcriptions, interlinear glosses, and translations into both Tok Pisin and English. Since very little documentation of Kove and related languages currently exists, the grammar and accompanying vocabulary will be of value not only to linguistics, but also fields such as anthropology, history, theology, and musicology, among others. The grammar and vocabulary will also serve as the basis for the Kove community's educational materials and will help promote literacy efforts.

科韦语是一种濒临灭绝的南岛语系语言，在巴布亚新几内亚西新不列颠省使用。该地区约有 8,000 人居住，但许多人都不会说流利的 Kove 语。社区成员正在迅速丧失语言能力，转而使用托克皮辛语和英语作为交流通用语言。这种变化有几个原因：总体现代化（例如大众媒体通用语的使用）；事实上，现在越来越多的科维去上学，那里的教学语言是英语；增加与非科维语使用者的社交互动（例如，由于现代交通带来的流动性）。 关于科夫语言和传统文化的知识不再以口头方式从一代人传给下一代。本论文项目的目标是根据在实地考察期间收集的语料库中的启发和文本，制作一本参考语法和一本小词典。该语料库将包括以音频和视频格式记录的叙述、公共事件和对话。文本将使用 IPA 转录、行间注释以及托克皮辛语和英语翻译进行转录和注释。由于目前关于 Kove 和相关语言的文献很少，因此语法和随附词汇不仅对语言学有价值，而且对人类学、历史学、神学和音乐学等领域也有价值。语法和词汇也将作为 Kove 社区教育材料的基础，并将有助于促进扫盲工作。