Doctoral Dissertation Research: Investigating complex word reanalysis through endangered language data

记录濒危语言计划试图发现独特的语言现象，这些现象正面临消失的危险，因为社区不再使用他们的传统语言，而是支持世界多样性。在濒危语言中发现的不同寻常的类型学特征有助于准确理解人类语言的局限性和可能性，因此记录这些数据所在的语言是最重要的。在世界上大多数语言中，前缀或后缀不可能从它们的本体词中分离出来形成独立的词。在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的Patience Epps的指导下，Adam Tallman将对一种濒危语言进行田野调查，以进一步调查这种独特类型的单词重新分析的例子。Tallman将记录查科博语，这是一种濒危的帕诺亚语，在玻利维亚亚马逊北部有数千人使用。他的发现将构成他的博士论文的基础，这是一篇对Chacobo的语法描述，并附有音频和视频记录。Chacobo对语言学理论特别感兴趣，因为它的形态句法过程的不同寻常的行为，如时态和体语素的分离以及其他功能形态从一个原本是多合成的动词词干中分离出来。此外，Chacobo的数据将为亚马逊地区的比较工作以及关于语言变化和词法与句法之间关系的理论提供事实。这是因为Chacobo的一些语法特征被认为是在帕诺亚语的母语中出现的，而不是在语言相关的变体中出现的。因此，Chacobo语法将有助于研究语言早期形式的性质，并有助于语言向现代变体的发展。Adam Tallman还将通过培训社区成员学习语言文献方法来扩大对语言实地工作的参与。这篇论文研究的所有成果都将在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的拉丁美洲土著语言档案馆存档和使用。

The Documenting Endangered Languages Program seeks to discover unique linguistic phenomena that are in danger of being lost as communities cease to speak their traditional languages in favor of world varieties. Unusual typological features found in endangered languages contribute to an accurate understanding of the limits and possibilities of human language, thus documenting the languages where this data is evidenced is of prime importance. In the large majority of the world's languages it is impossible for prefixes or suffixes to be separated from their host words to form independent words. Working under the direction of Patience Epps at the University of Texas at Austin, Adam Tallman will conduct fieldwork on an endangered language to further investigate instances of this unique type of word reanalysis.Tallman will document Chacobo, an endangered Panoan language spoken by a few thousand people in the northern Bolivian Amazon. His findings will form the basis of his doctoral dissertation, a grammatical description of Chacobo with accompanying audio and video recordings. Chacobo is especially interesting for linguistic theory because of the unusual behavior of its morpho-syntactic processes such as the 'split-off' of tense and aspect morphemes and other functional morphology from an otherwise polysynthetic verb stem. Additionally, the Chacobo data will provide facts for comparative work in Amazonia and for theories about language change and the relationship between morphology and syntax. This is because Chacobo exhibits some grammatical features thought to occur in the Panoan parent language and not in linguistically related varieties. Therefore, Chacobo grammar will contribute to the investigation of the nature of earlier forms of the language and its development into modern varieties. Adam Tallman will also broaden participation in linguistic fieldwork by training community members in language documentation methodology. All products from this dissertation research will be archived and accessible at the Archive of Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the University of Texas at Austin.