Collaborative Research: Comprehensive Itelmen [itl] Dictionary

根据这一国际合作项目，Jonathan Bobaljik、David Koester、Michael Krauss和Chikako Ono(日本千叶大学)将努力完成并出版一本全面的伊特尔曼语词典，其中包括所有已知的词汇资源，这项工作是在2012年快速奖(ARC-1155973)的支持下开始的。该项目的中心是由A.P.Volodin(圣彼得堡)从1962年到20世纪80年代汇编的大型词汇卡片文件(12,000多张卡片)。该项目与出版“Beringia”(白令海地区)语言的综合词典的更大努力相协调，并且正值该语言历史上的关键时刻。意大利语濒临灭绝：目前，以意大利语为母语的人数已经减少到不到10人。与此同时，意大利语社区对意大利语的兴趣与日俱增，同时在白令海峡两岸语言接触的背景下，学术界对该地区语言的关注也越来越多。

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.