Doctoral Dissertation Research: Documentation and Description of Khinalug Language

这笔赠款支持Tamrika Khvtisiashvili关于Khinalug语法的博士论文的实地考察和研究，Khinalug是一种濒临灭绝的东北高加索语言，主要在阿塞拜疆山区的一个村庄使用。对这种濒危语言的记录将提供来自一种语言和一个语族的新数据，这些语言和语族在地理上是多样化的，位于一个孤立的地区，这些数据有助于语言理论的科学进步。希纳卢格的描述语法将在几个方面对语言学学术做出贡献，其中包括对尚未研究的不寻常结构特征的分析，以及历史语言学分析的材料，这些材料需要用于语言变化的研究，语言接触，以及对有争议的遗传关系建议的调查。这项研究将通过对母语者进行录音和转录培训以及编写教学和扫盲材料得到加强，并与这些培训相结合，这反过来又将确保Khinalug语言和文化的长期可持续性。语法将基于语言分析，这是由当前的语言理论和语言类型学通知。语音学，形态学和句法将被分析，并以全球语言学家，当地社区成员以及其他学者和感兴趣的非科学家可以访问的格式呈现。社区的一些成员将参与实际的研究和制定语言维护/振兴材料，用于教授和学习语言。语言学家将受益于获得对语言学许多领域的进一步研究有价值的数据和分析;非专业人士和公众通常可以受益于获得关于一个鲜为人知的群体的历史和人类学信息，这些群体具有悠久而迷人的历史和语言。

This grant supports the fieldwork and research for Tamrika Khvtisiashvili's doctoral dissertation on the grammar of Khinalug, an endangered Northeast Caucasian language which is spoken primarily in a single village in the mountains of Azerbaijan. Documentation of this endangered language will provide new data from a language and a language family that are very poorly known, situated in a geographically diverse and isolated area, data which contribute to the scientific advancement of linguistic theory. The descriptive grammar of Khinalug will contribute to linguistic scholarship in several ways, among them an analysis of unusual structural traits that have not been studied and materials for historical linguistics analysis, needed for the study of language change, language contact, and investigation of controversial proposals of genetic relationships. The research will be enhanced by and integrated with training of native speakers in recording and transcription and in development of teaching and literacy materials, which will in turn insure the long-range sustainability of Khinalug language and culture. The grammar will be based on linguistic analysis that is informed by current linguistic theory and language typology. The phonology, morphology, and syntax will be analyzed and presented in formats that are accessible to linguists worldwide, to members of the local community, and to other scholars and interested non-scientists. A number of members of the community will be involved in actual research and in developing language maintenance/revitalization materials for teaching and learning the language. Linguists will benefit by having access to data and analysis valuable for further research in a number of areas of linguistics; non-specialists and the public generally can benefit from having access to historical and anthropological information about a little known group with a long and fascinating history and their language.