Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Grammar of Huambisa

该项目将编写一本全面的Huambisa语语法书，Huambisa语是秘鲁一种濒临灭绝的Jivaroan语，位于一个自然资源丰富的地区。尽管过去和现在都有外部压力，试图利用其资源丰富的领土，但作为具有强烈自由意识的凶猛战士，万比萨人及其语言和文化迄今仍设法生存下来。尽管事实上，Jivaroan人民位于一个重要的地理和生态位之间的安第斯山脉和亚马逊地区，Huambisa语言已收到很少的事先document.The研究是基于语言分析的采访和真实的互动之间的Huambisa扬声器。语法所依据的资料将编入数据库，专业存档，并提供给一般公众和进行实地工作的社区。文件材料包括一个三语的万比萨-西班牙语-英语词汇，分析文本和引出的数据，音频和视频记录，以及静态照片。语法是由当前的语言学理论，考虑到类型学，历时和语言接触的观点。在语法描述的基础上提出的一个主要问题是，Huambisa是否更像安第斯或亚马逊语言，以及与其他语言的接触如何影响其历史发展。作为Huambisa的第一个详细语法，该项目有助于对Jivaroan语言的研究以及安第斯和亚马逊研究。由于语法揭示了万比萨人的语言和文化习俗，（演讲策略，问候和不寻常的正式问候仪式，以及其他传统类型），以及他们对河流和森林的详细传统知识，以及他们与其他群体互动的历史，它对人类学，生物学，生态学，民族语言学和历史学具有科学意义，该项目将对母语人士进行录音和转录方面的培训。该项目将与万比萨村博卡Chinganaza的成员合作开展，并将帮助满足他们发展和推广自己语言的明确需求。特别是，这些课本和词典材料将为今后为当地不同文化间学校编写教学和扫盲材料提供基础。

This project will produce a comprehensive grammar of Huambisa, an endangered Jivaroan language of Peru, located in a region rich in natural resources. Known as fierce warriors with a strong sense of freedom, the Huambisa, their language and culture have so far managed to survive despite past and current external pressures that seek to exploit their resource-rich territory. Despite the fact that the Jivaroan peoples are located in an important geographical and ecological niche between the Andes and the Amazonian regions, the Huambisa language has received little prior documentation.The research is based on linguistic analysis of interviews and authentic interactions among Huambisa speakers. The information on which the grammar is based will be organized into databases, professionally archived and made available to the general public and the communities where the fieldwork takes place. The documentary material includes a trilingual Huambisa-Spanish-English vocabulary, analyzed texts and elicited data, audio and video recordings, and still photographs. The grammar is informed by current linguistic theory, taking into account typological, diachronic and language contact perspectives. A primary question addressed on the basis of the grammatical description is whether Huambisa is more like Andean or Amazonian languages, and how contact with other languages has affected its historical development. As the first detailed grammar of Huambisa, this project contributes both to research on Jivaroan languages and to Andean and Amazonian studies. As the grammar sheds light on linguistic and cultural practices of the Huambisa (oratory strategies, greeting and unusual formal salutation rituals, and other traditional genres), as well as on their detailed traditional knowledge of the rivers and forest, and their history of interactions with other groups, it is of scientific interest to anthropology, biology, ecology, ethnolinguistics and history, among other fields.The project will train native speakers in recording and transcribing. It will be carried out collaboratively with members of Boca Chinganaza, a Huambisa village, and it will help meet their expressed needs to develop and promote their language. In particular, the text and lexicographic materials will provide a basis for developing teaching and literacy materials for local intercultural schools in the future.