Alaskan Athabascan Grammar Database Development: Koyukon (koy), Lower Tanana (taa), and Upper Tanana (tau)

研究人员打算开发一个数据库，将三种高度濒危的阿拉斯加阿萨巴斯坎语言（Koyukon、Lower Tanana和Upper Tanana）的句子数据组织起来。许多数据已经在出版的词典和手稿中，或在文本和语言学习材料中，但研究人员和语言教师目前还无法以易于比较的形式获得这些数据。作为该项目的一部分，将收集更多的数据，以填补空白，丰富和澄清以前存档的内容。数据库将从两个角度组织数据：从表单到功能和从功能到表单。在选择要包含的结构/形式时，我们将参考其他阿萨巴斯坎语言的一些语法，如Rice（1989）和de Reuse and Goode（2006）。在选择要包含的函数时，我们将使用现有的工具，如世界语言结构地图集（Dryer & & Haspelmath 2011）和GOLD本体（Farrar & & Langedoen 2003）来构建我们的类别。形式方面的搜索词的例子有独立代词、分类词、疑问句或超高频（仅举几例）；在功能方面，命令（积极的和消极的）、问题、话题化等等。按形式搜索对熟悉阿萨巴斯坎语言的研究人员很有用；对类型学问题感兴趣的研究人员按功能搜索。此外，该工具将成为阿萨巴斯卡语学习者和教育工作者的有用资源，他们需要参考课程开发。

The researchers intend to develop a database organizing sentence data from three highly endangered Alaskan Athabascan languages: Koyukon, Lower Tanana, and Upper Tanana. Much of the data is already available in published and manuscript dictionaries, or in texts and language learning materials, but it is not currently accessible to researchers and language teachers in readily comparable form. Additional data will be collected as part of this project to fill gaps and to enrich and clarify what has been previously archived. The database will organize the data from two perspectives: form-to-function and function-to-form. In selecting the constructions/forms to be included, we will consult a number of grammars of other Athabascan languages such as Rice (1989) and de Reuse and Goode (2006). In the selection of functions to be included, we will use extant tools such as the World Atlas on Language Structures (Dryer & Haspelmath 2011) and the GOLD ontology (Farrar & Langedoen 2003) to build our categories. Examples of search terms on the formal side are independent pronouns, classifiers, interrogative particles, or extra-high tone (to name but a few); on the functional side commands (both positive and negative), questions, topicalization, and many more. Searching by form will be useful to researchers familiar with Athabascan languages; searching by function to researchers interested in typological questions. Additionally, this tool will be a helpful resource for Athabascan language learners and educators, who need references for curriculum development.