Doctoral Dissertation Research: Plant knowledge and its relation to dialect distribution in Greenland

博士论文研究：植物知识及其与格陵兰方言分布的关系

• 批准号: 1313305
• 负责人: Mark McPeek
• 金额: $ 3.82万
• 依托单位: Dartmouth College
• 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: 2013-08-15 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1313305&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Plant; knowledge

This award supports dissertation research in ethno-botany and ethno-linguistics to explore the cross-dialectical similarities and differences among the known dialects of the Greenlandic language. The CoPI, student researcher, will be examining plant knowledge and usage by Greelandic people and what this knowledge can tell us about linguistic change in the country. The researcher argues that because plants in the Arctic are circumpolar in range, suggesting a high likelihood of similar uses among arctic peoples, and because the Inuit of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland share ancestry and language, she should be able to make some inferences about the relationship between Inuit knowledge of plant usage and linguistic change. Greenland is home to three of the 16 Inuit language dialects making it an ideal location for documenting plant names and uses to preserve this knowledge and to determine how usage varies across dialects as a proxy for knowledge across all Inuit dialects. Additionally, these data will be used to test an explanatory model put forth by linguist Michael Fortescue (1986) that suggests dialect distribution in Greenland is the result of relatively recent migrations first to the island and subsequent migrations along the coast.

该奖项支持民族植物学和民族语言学中的论文研究，以探讨格陵兰语的已知方言之间的交叉拨号相似性和差异。 COPI，学生研究人员将研究Greelandic人的植物知识和用途，这些知识可以告诉我们有关该国语言变化的信息。 研究人员认为，由于北极的植物在范围内是圆形的，这表明北极人民之间具有类似用途的可能性，并且由于阿拉斯加，加拿大和格陵兰岛的因纽特人共享祖先和语言，因此她应该能够对植物用途的因纽特知识与语言变化之间的关系做出一些推论。 格陵兰是16种因纽特语言方言中的三个的所在地，这是记录植物名称和保留此知识并确定用法在方言中的使用方式的理想位置，作为在所有因纽特方言中知识的代理。 此外，这些数据将用于测试语言学家Michael Fortescue（1986）提出的解释模型，该模型表明，格陵兰的方言分布是相对较新的迁移到该岛的结果，并随后迁移了沿海地区。