Doctoral Dissertation Research: Descriptive and Comparative Study of Akuntsu

该项目支持卡罗莱纳阿拉贡的博士论文的实地考察和研究，以产生一个全面的阿肯楚语法，一个图皮安语言的单语者在朗，巴西。直到最近，Akuntsú人还是一个孤立的土著群体，但现在，由于种族灭绝大屠杀，只剩下五个人说这种话。 这使得阿肯楚语成为一种极度濒危的语言。这个项目的主要目标是提供一个全面的语法语言，这将是由语言类型学和当前的语言理论通知。 对Akuntsú的语法描述将有助于我们理解图帕林语亚科的类型学特征，并有助于语言类型学的整体研究。最终，它也将有助于重建原始图帕林，并对原始图皮安产生影响。还将制作其他文件材料;例如，将记录和存档阿昆图文化和历史的重要方面，尽管过去遭受了创伤，但这些文化和历史仍然存在。语言学、人种学和词典学材料的记录和制作不仅对表现语言结构很重要，而且对揭示阿昆图人看待和理解世界的方式也很重要。作为长期目标的一部分，将编写教学材料，并将扩大词典的范围，最终制作一本有声词典，通过研究一个仍然像其祖先那样生活的群体，该项目将为对研究亚马逊土著居民及其文化多样性感兴趣的科学领域作出贡献。公众也将受益于获得数据和材料，这些数据和材料不仅与语言学有关，而且还与有兴趣了解更多巴西土著语言，社会和文化的学者有关。

This project supports the fieldwork and research for Carolina Aragon's doctoral dissertation to produce a comprehensive grammar of Akuntsú, a Tupían language spoken by monolinguals in Rondônia, Brazil. Until recently the Akuntsú people were an isolated indigenous group, but now, because of a genocidal massacre, there are only five remaining speakers. This has left Akuntsú a critically endangered language. This project's main goal is to provide a comprehensive grammar of the language which will be informed by language typology and current linguistic theory. The grammatical description of Akuntsú will contribute to our understanding of the typological traits of the Tuparían subfamily and to linguistic typology in general. Ultimately it will also contribute to the reconstruction of Proto-Tuparían, with implications for Proto-Tupían. Other documentary materials will also be produced; for example, important aspects of Akuntsú culture and history that have survived despite of the traumatic past will be recorded and archived. Documentation and production of linguistic, ethnographic, and lexicographic materials will be important not only to represent the structure of the language, but also to reveal the way that Akuntsú people see and understand their world. As part of a long-term goal, pedagogical materials will be created and the dictionary will be expanded ultimately to produce a talking dictionary.By studying a group that still lives as its ancestors did, this project will provide contributions for scientific fields interested in the study of Amazonian native inhabitants and their cultural diversity. The general public will also benefit from having access to data and materials which will not only be relevant for linguistics, but also to scholars interested in learning more about Brazilian indigenous languages, society, and culture.