Doctoral Dissertation Research: A description of the Patwin language

这篇论文的目标是利用全国各地的档案材料，创建帕特温语言的描述性参考语法。帕特温是一种美洲原住民语言，以前在加利福尼亚州萨克拉门托河的西南部排水系统使用。它是规模较小、濒临死亡和文献记载不足的温图亚语家族中最南端的成员，也是拟议中的佩努蒂亚语的成员。以前大约有8000-12000人说帕特温语，现在语言研究界只有一两个活着的人说帕特温语作为第一语言。全国各地的各种档案馆收集了足够多的语言材料，应该有可能对这种语言进行相当完整的描述。然而，现有的语言没有足够的语法描述，自从肯尼斯·惠斯勒在1970年的《S》和1980年初的《S》中的重要工作以来，还没有语言学家发表过关于帕特温的文章，无论是描述性的还是理论上的。因此，这篇论文将是一篇学术的、描述性的语言语法，每个领域都传统上用语法描述：语音学(语音)、音系学(发音模式)、词法(词结构)和句法(句法结构)。此外，重要的是在这个时候作出这样的描述，因为目前各传统帕特温社区对帕特温语言的振兴有相当大的兴趣。该项目还将支持一位有前途的学者的科学培训。

The goal of this dissertation is to create a descriptive reference grammar of the Patwin language, using materials available in archives around the country. Patwin is a Native American language formerly spoken in the southwestern drainage of the Sacramento River in California. It is the southernmost member of the small, moribund, and under-documented Wintuan language family, a member of the proposed Penutian stock. Formerly spoken by a population of about 8,000-12,000, Patwin is now spoken as a first language by only one or two living people known to the linguistic research community. Enough language materials have been collected in various archives throughout the country that it should be possible to arrive at a reasonably complete description of the language. Yet there is no adequate grammatical description of the language available and since the important work of Kenneth Whistler in the 1970's and early 1980's no linguist has published on Patwin, whether descriptively or theoretically. This dissertation will therefore be an academic, descriptive grammar of the language with each of the areas traditionally described in grammars: phonetics (speech sounds), phonology (sound patterns), morphology (word structure), and syntax (sentence structure). It is moreover important that such a description be made at this time as there is currently considerable interest in Patwin language revitalization among various heritage Patwin communities. This project will also support the scientific training of a promising scholar.