Doctoral Dissertation Research: Pronominal Clitics in Tajik Wakhi

瓦希语是中亚兴都库什地区使用的一种伊朗语言，包括巴基斯坦、塔吉克斯坦、阿富汗和中国。Wakhi有3万人说，被联合国教科文组织列为濒危物种。根据因果时态的不同，Wakhi表示同意主语的方式也不同。在现在时态中，约定的作用似乎和在罗曼斯语中很相似，动词后面有人称和数字语素。过去时的协议语素就不那么直截了当了。它们很少附着在动词上，也可能附着在句子中的各种成分上，包括主语和宾语。过去对这些因素的分析将它们简单地贴上了“移动代词悬崖”的标签，从理论角度来看，它们的性质是模棱两可的。在布伦特·亨德森博士的指导下，托德·休斯先生将在塔吉克斯坦东部的瓦吉社区进行主要的田野调查。他将从句法和语篇的角度来考察这些偏离语的功能。休斯先生将引出叙事，并收集翻译和对构建的例子的语法判断。这些将被用来对所研究的派系进行扩展分析，因为它们与整个系统有关，从而使其性质更加清楚。这个项目建立在大量研究的基础上，主要以罗曼斯语和其他欧洲语言为重点，增加了来自地理和基因上不同语言的数据和见解。这些结果，再加上对阿富汗Wakhi的正在进行的研究，将使对辩证变异的研究成为可能。所有数据都将由休斯先生进行数字记录、转录和注释。在参与者的许可下，这些数据将被提交到在线濒危语言档案馆，建立研究人员和Wakhi社区可以使用的第一个Wakhi永久视听记录。Wakhi社区成员将能够扩大新生的振兴努力。资助该项目还有助于培养一名研究生。

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.