Documentation of Gutob, An Endangered Munda Language of India

印度濒临灭绝的蒙达语古托布语的文献

• 批准号: 1500092
• 负责人: Gregory Anderson
• 金额: $ 19.71万
• 依托单位: Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1500092&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Documentation; Gutob; Endangered; Munda; Language

Gutob is a seriously endangered and poorly described language of Odisha State in eastern-central India. There are many unusual constructions found in Gutob, some traceable to archaic South Munda. Noun incorporation, for example, allows a range of semantic roles to be incorporated into the verb. For example, 'I wash my hand' is expressed in Gutob as 'I wash-hand' where 'hand' is incorporated into the verb to create a new verb 'wash-hand'. Moreover, the same noun may occur within the verb and also occur as an independent noun; for example, 'I my hand wash-hand'.Gregory Anderson of the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages and K. David Harrison of Swarthmore College will work with Indian scholars over the course of this two-year grant to create a comprehensive scientific description (a reference grammar, corpus of analyzed oral language samples, and analytic dictionary) of Gutob. They will analyze in depth noun incorporation and other typologically unique Gutob constructions. Since Gutob has through its history been in contact with genetically unrelated languages, Anderson and Harrison will also investigate the extent and nature of Gutob language change through contact. Through their interaction with and mentoring of local scholars, the researchers will build infrastructure for further language documentation in Odisha State.All Gutob audio and video data, along with transcriptions and translations, collected during the project will be freely accessible from the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures. An online Gutob Talking Dictionary will be freely available at the talkingdictionary.org website.This project is supported by co-funds from the National Science Foundation's International Science and Engineering Office.

古托布语是印度中东部奥迪萨邦的一种严重濒危且描述不佳的语言。在古托布发现了许多不寻常的建筑，其中一些可以追溯到古老的南蒙达。例如，名词合并允许将一系列语义角色合并到动词中。例如，‘我洗手’在古托布语中被表达为‘我洗手’，其中‘手’被合并到动词中以创建一个新的动词‘洗手’。此外，同样的名词也可以出现在动词中，也可以作为一个独立的名词出现；例如，我洗手。濒危语言活语言研究所的格雷戈里·安德森和斯沃斯莫尔学院的K·大卫·哈里森将在这项为期两年的拨款过程中与印度学者合作，创建一份关于古托布的全面科学描述(参考语法、分析的口语样本语料库和分析词典)。他们将深入分析名词并入和其他类型独特的Gutob结构。由于古托布在其历史上一直与遗传上无关的语言接触，安德森和哈里森还将调查通过接触古托布语言变化的程度和性质。通过与当地学者的互动和指导，研究人员将为奥迪沙州的进一步语言文件建立基础设施。在该项目期间收集的所有古托布音频和视频数据，以及抄本和翻译，将从太平洋地区濒危文化数字来源档案馆免费获取。Talkingdictionary.org网站上将免费提供一本在线Gutob Talking词典。该项目由美国国家科学基金会国际科学与工程办公室共同资助。