Doctoral Dissertation Research: Patterns of variable grammatical marking in Palenquero creole

博士论文研究：帕伦克罗克里奥尔语中可变语法标记的模式

• 批准号: 1226655
• 负责人: Rena Torres Cacoullos
• 金额: $ 1.1万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-15 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1226655&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Patterns; variable

Creole studies have advanced competing hypotheses about the structure and origins of creoles--languages based on two or more prior languages--most prominently contact with a colonial language, substrate influence, and universal linguistic processes. The Spanish-based creole Palenquero is spoken in the Afro-Hispanic community of San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia. This project examines variably occurring forms in Palenquero in order to test hypotheses about their functions and provenance. In the domain of the noun phrase, the focus of study is the demonstrative-article 'e' as the result of contact with Spanish, a reflex from the substrate Kikongo, or the product of language-internal demonstrative-to-article grammaticalization. In parallel, in the domain of verbal categories, this research investigates whether tense-aspect expressions function as grammatical markers and their possible sources. Since creole forms may share surface similarity to those of presumed donor languages, adjudicating between hypotheses about their functions and origins requires comparison of their distribution patterns. The Variationist Comparative Method will be employed. The data will be naturalistic speech gathered in sociolinguistic interviews with 50 Palenquero speakers, which will be recorded and transcribed. 1,500 tokens for each functional domain will be extracted, coded for factors operationalizing hypotheses, and submitted to multivariate analysis. The constraints on variant forms will be compared with constraints on apparently similar forms in Spanish and Kikongo and in light of predictions from grammaticalization theory.At the level of the community, this study will offer linguistic descriptions which can serve in the development of educational materials for the local schools. Moreover, innovative in this project is the training of community members to revise transcriptions, which provides an opportunity for involving community members in the scientific study of their language. More generally, this study contributes to the documentation of Afro-Hispanic language varieties, which have been socially stigmatized, and to demonstrating their systematicity in the structure of linguistic variation.

克里奥尔语的研究提出了关于克里奥尔语的结构和起源的相互竞争的假设-基于两种或两种以上先前语言的语言-最突出的是与殖民语言的接触，基底影响和普遍的语言过程。哥伦比亚圣巴西利奥德帕伦克的非裔西班牙裔社区使用以西班牙语为基础的克里奥尔语帕伦克罗。该项目研究了帕伦克罗的非对称发生形式，以测试有关其功能和起源的假设。在名词短语领域，研究的重点是指示冠词“e”，它是与西班牙语接触的结果，是基孔戈语的反射，或者是语言内部指示词到冠词语法化的产物。同时，在动词范畴中，本研究考察了时体表达是否具有语法标记的功能及其可能的来源。由于克里奥尔语的形式可能与假定的捐赠语言有表面相似性，因此要在关于其功能和起源的假设之间做出裁决，就需要比较它们的分布模式。将采用变分比较法。数据将是在对50名帕伦克罗人的社会语言学采访中收集的自然主义言论，这些言论将被记录和转录。每个功能域的1,500个标记将被提取，编码为可操作假设的因素，并提交给多变量分析。对变体形式的限制将与西班牙语和Kikongo语中明显相似的形式的限制进行比较，并根据语法化理论的预测，在社区一级，这项研究将提供语言描述，可用于为当地学校编写教材。此外，该项目的创新之处在于培训社区成员修改transmittance，这为社区成员参与对其语言的科学研究提供了机会。更一般地说，这项研究有助于非洲裔西班牙语的品种，这已被社会污名化的文件，并展示其系统性的语言变异的结构。