Expanding Potawatomi Language Description with Documentation of Natural Speech (POT)

该项目的目标是增加关于阿尔冈昆语波塔瓦托米语的相对稀少的文献。这个为期三年的项目以一项核心活动为基础，即记录和处理讲流利母语的Potawatomi长老54小时的自然语言。这一活动将导致并得到一系列相关项目的补充，包括完善我们的词典数据库，创建一套协调的语言分析工具，以及扩展由合作者Pi Welcher于1998年创建的语言的部分语法草图。Potawatomi(或bodéwAdimwen)是一种严重濒危的语言，主要在美国中西部(威斯康星州、密歇根州、堪萨斯州和俄克拉何马州)使用。这里记载的方言是威斯康星州的森林县波塔瓦托米。在波塔瓦托米剩下的10-15名流利的老年人中，有9人住在威斯康星州，所以这里是这样一个项目的理想地点。现有的关于这种语言的文献在数量和范围上都是有限的，这使得进一步的文献记录变得更加紧迫。现存的无脚本连接演讲的记录包括查尔斯·霍基特收集的少量手写的、部分翻译的叙事、自发性差异很大的零散教学材料，以及社区语言活动家的零散录音。对话、口述历史和其他类型的语篇类型的加入将使我们对波塔瓦托米语言的使用记录更加完整。波塔瓦托米叙事文本在语法结构上与日常语篇有很大的不同，因此建立这样的文本记录将拓宽语言分析的经验基础。与流利的说话者协商，对收集的录音进行系统的转录、分析和存档，将产生一个对研究人员以及语言教师和学习者都有极大好处的主要语言资源。该项目是母语说话者、社区语言活动家、语言学家和软件应用专家之间合作的继续，所有这些人目前都在编写一本波塔瓦托米词典，它将产生对所有这些用户都有用的额外材料。由于社区在整个过程中的参与程度，我们有一个明确的重点，即生产一种将立即受益于社区驱动的语言振兴的产品。此外，我们将与一个新的森林县波塔瓦托米社区语言文件项目并行工作，该项目受到我们词典项目的启发，并将继续下去。

The goal of this project is to add to the relatively sparse documentation on the Algonquian language Potawatomi. This three-year project is based on a core activity, the recording (audio and video) and processing of a target of 54 hours of natural speech by fluent native speaker Potawatomi elders. This activity will both lead to and be complemented by a set of related projects, including the elaboration of our dictionary database, creation of a coordinated set of tools for language analysis, and the expansion of a partial grammatical sketch of the language created by co-PI Welcher in 1998.Potawatomi (or Bodéwadmimwen) is a critically endangered language spoken primarily in the Midwestern United States (Wisconsin, Michigan, Kansas, and Oklahoma). The dialect being documented here is Forest County Potawatomi, spoken in Wisconsin. Of the total 10-15 remaining fluent elder speakers of Potawatomi, nine live in Wisconsin, so this is the ideal place for such a project. Documentation which exists on the language is limited in quantity and scope, making further documentation all the more urgent.Existing records of unscripted connected speech include a small number of handwritten, partially translated narratives collected by Charles Hockett, scattered pedagogical materials whose spontaneity varies widely, and scattered recordings by community language activists. The addition of genres such as conversations, oral histories, and other types of discourse will round out our record of Potawatomi language use. Potawatomi narrative texts are significantly different from everyday discourse, even in terms of grammatical structure, and thus creation of a record of such texts will broaden the empirical basis upon which linguistic analyses can be performed. Systematic transcription, analysis, and archiving of collected recordings in consultation with fluent speakers will result in a primary language resource that will be of immense benefit to researchers, as well as to language teachers and learners.The project is the continuation of a collaboration between native speakers, community language activists, linguists, and a software applications expert, all currently working on a dictionary of Potawatomi, and it will result in additional materials useful to all of these constituencies. Because of the level of community involvement in the entire process we have a clear focus on producing a product that will be of immediate benefit to community-driven language revitalization. In addition, we will be working in parallel with a new Forest County Potawatomi community-based language documentation project inspired by and continuing our dictionary project.