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

该奖项支持民族植物学和民族语言学的论文研究，以探索格陵兰语已知方言之间的跨方言相似性和差异。 CoPI，学生研究员，将研究植物知识和希腊人的使用，以及这些知识可以告诉我们该国的语言变化。 研究人员认为，由于北极地区的植物分布范围是环极的，这表明北极地区的人们很可能有类似的用途，而且由于阿拉斯加、加拿大和格陵兰的因纽特人有着共同的祖先和语言，她应该能够对因纽特人对植物使用的知识和语言变化之间的关系做出一些推断。 格陵兰岛是16种因纽特方言中的3种方言的所在地，这使其成为记录植物名称和用途的理想地点，以保存这种知识，并确定不同方言之间的使用情况如何，作为所有因纽特方言知识的代理。 此外，这些数据将被用来检验语言学家迈克尔·福蒂斯丘（Michael Fortescue，1986）提出的一个解释性模型，该模型认为格陵兰岛的方言分布是相对较新的移民首先到达该岛，随后沿沿着迁移的结果。

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.