Collaborative Research: Comprehensive Itelmen [itl] Dictionary

在这一国际合作项目下，Jonathan Bobaljik、大卫·科斯特、迈克尔·克劳斯和小野千香子（日本千叶大学）将致力于完成和出版一部包含所有已知词汇资源的伊特尔门语综合词典，这项工作是在2012年RAPID奖（ARC-1155973）的支持下开始的。该项目的核心是由A. P. Volodin（彼得堡）从1962年到20世纪80年代。该项目与出版“白令海”（白令海地区）语言综合词典的更大努力相协调，并在该语言历史的关键时刻到来。Itelmen是严重濒危：在这个时候，母语的人数已经减少到不到10。与此同时，在Itelmen社区内对Itelmen语言的兴趣越来越大，在白令海峡两岸语言接触的背景下，对该地区语言的学术关注也越来越多。

Under this international collaborative project, Jonathan Bobaljik, David Koester, Michael Krauss and Chikako Ono (Chiba University, Japan) will work towards the completion and publication of a comprehensive dictionary of the Itelmen language, comprising all known lexical resources, work that was begun under the aegis of a 2012 RAPID award (ARC-1155973). The centerpiece of the project is the large lexical card file (12,000 + cards) assembled by A. P. Volodin (St. Petersburg) from 1962 into the 1980s. The project is coordinated with a larger effort to publish comprehensive dictionaries of the languages of "Beringia" (the Bering Sea region), and comes at a key juncture in the language's history. Itelmen is critically endangered: at this time, the number of native speakers has dwindled to fewer than 10. At the same time, there is growing interest in the Itelmen language within the Itelmen community, as well as growing scholarly attention to the languages of this region in the context of language contact across the Bering Strait.