Investigating the interaction of tone and syntax in the Bagime and the Dogon languages of Mali and Burkina Faso

研究马里和布基纳法索的巴吉姆语和多贡语中声调和句法的相互作用

• 批准号: 1263150
• 负责人: Jeffrey Heath
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-06-15 至 2018-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1263150&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Investigating; interaction; tone; syntax; Bagime

The proposed field research in Mali and Burkina Faso will complete a multi-year project documenting all languages of the Dogon family (Mali). These languages are especially interesting for their tonosyntactic systems, where certain words control tone overlays on adjacent words. A second feature of interest is that action verbs such as 'eat' and 'carry' are consistently expressed to include indication of manner or process of acting rather than, as in English, the function or result of acting. The project will also complete work on Bangime (Mali), a language isolate. Having established a second base in neighboring Burkina Faso, the project will also carry out primary documentation of two more endangered language, Jalkunan (Mande family) and Tiefo (Gur family), and will begin documentation of a third, Seeku (Mande). In addition to reference grammars (and spin-off journal articles), lexicons, and texts, the project is producing simple documentary videos of many practical activities and cultural events, is mapping the 1000 or so villages of the Dogon/Bangime and adjoining areas in Mali, and is developing guides to local flora-fauna including scientific identifications, native names in several languages, and ethnozoological information. Select grammars are being published through traditional venues and most of the materials collected will be disseminated on a project website.This award is co-funded by NSF's International Science and Engineering Office and the Documenting Endangered Langauges Program.

拟议在马里和布基纳法索进行的实地研究将完成一个记录多贡族（马里）所有语言的多年项目。这些语言的音调句法系统特别有趣，其中某些单词控制相邻单词的音调覆盖。第二个有趣的特征是，像“eat”和“carry”这样的动作动词总是被用来表示行为的方式或过程，而不是像英语中那样表示行为的功能或结果。该项目还将完成Bangime（马里）的工作，这是一种孤立的语言。在邻国布吉纳法索建立第二个基地后，该计划也将对另外两种濒危语言贾库南语（曼德族）和提福语（古尔族）进行初步记录，并将开始对第三种语言塞库语（曼德族）进行记录。除了参考语法（以及衍生的期刊文章）、词汇和文本外，该项目还制作了许多实际活动和文化活动的简单纪录片，绘制了马里多贡/邦吉梅及邻近地区约1000个村庄的地图，并编写了当地动植物指南，包括科学鉴定、几种语言的土著名称和民族动物学信息。精选的语法将通过传统渠道出版，收集到的大部分材料将在项目网站上发布。该奖项由美国国家科学基金会国际科学与工程办公室和濒危语言记录项目共同资助。