Doctoral Dissertation Research: Pronominal Clitics in Tajik Wakhi

瓦希语是一种伊朗语，在中亚的兴都库什山脉地区使用，包括巴基斯坦、塔吉克斯坦、阿富汗和中国。瓦基语有3万人使用，被联合国教科文组织列为濒危语言。Wakhi表示与主语的一致取决于因果时态。在现在时中，“一致”似乎和罗曼语中的用法很相似，动词后面加了人称和数语素的后缀。过去时的一致语素就不那么直白了。它们是很少（如果有的话）附在动词上的限定词，可以附在句子中的各种成分上，包括主语和宾语。过去对这些元素的分析将它们简单地标记为“移动代词限定词”，从理论角度来看，它们的性质是模糊的。在Brent Henderson博士的指导下，Todd Hughes先生将在塔吉克斯坦东部的Wakhi社区进行初步实地工作。他将从句法和语篇的角度探讨这些批判的功能。休斯先生将引出叙述，并收集译文和对构造示例的语法判断。这些将用于对所研究的政治进行扩展分析，因为它们与整个系统有关，使其性质更加清楚。这个项目建立在大量的研究基础上，这些研究主要集中在罗曼语和其他欧洲语言，并增加了来自地理和基因不同的语言的数据和见解。这些结果，结合正在进行的对阿富汗Wakhi的研究，将允许对辩证变异进行研究。所有数据将由休斯先生进行数字记录、转录和注释。在获得参与者许可的情况下，这些数据将被提交到在线濒危语言档案，建立第一个永久的瓦基语视听记录，供研究人员和瓦基社区使用。Wakhi社区成员将能够扩大新生的振兴工作。资助这个项目也有助于培养研究生。

Wakhi is an Iranian language spoken in the Hindu Kush region of Central Asia, including Pakistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and China. Spoken by 30,000 people, Wakhi is classified as endangered by UNESCO. Wakhi indicates agreement with the subject differently depending on causal tense. In the present tense, agreement seems to operate much as in Romance languages, with person and number morphemes suffixed to the verb. Agreement morphemes in the past tense are less straightforward. They are clitics which rarely, if ever, attach to the verbs, and may attach to various constituents in the sentence, including subject and object. Past analyses of these elements have labeled them simply as "mobile pronominal clitics," leaving their nature ambiguous from a theoretical perspective.Under the direction of Dr. Brent Henderson, Mr. Todd Hughes will conduct primary fieldwork in Wakhi communities of eastern Tajikistan. He will investigate the function of these clitics from the perspective of syntax and discourse. Mr. Hughes will elicit narratives as well as collect translations and grammatical judgements on constructed examples. These will be used to develop an expanded analysis of the clitics under study as they relate to the system as a whole, making their nature more clear. This project builds upon a large body of research focusing on clitics, mostly in Romance and other European languages, adding data and insights from a geographically and genetically different language. These outcomes, combined with ongoing research on the Wakhi in Afghanistan, will allow for studies on dialectical variation.All data will be digitally recorded, transcribed and annotated by Mr. Hughes. With participant permission, the data will be submitted to the online Endangered Languages Archive, establishing the first permanent audio-visual record of Wakhi available to researchers and the Wakhi community. Wakhi community members will be able to expand nascent revitalization efforts. Funding this project also contributes to the training of a graduate student.