Doctoral Dissertation Research: Using Ethnographic Methods to Document the Garifuna Language

博士论文研究：使用民族志方法记录加里富纳语言

• 批准号: 1500811
• 负责人: Eve Danziger
• 金额: $ 1.51万
• 依托单位: University of Virginia Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-06-01 至 2016-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1500811&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Using; Ethnographic

Speaker responses about language use in interview settings are often skewed towards formal and prescriptively sanctioned norms. By collecting and analyzing video and audio recordings of everyday conversations, narratives, and routinized speech events including ancestor rituals, Alison Broach under the direction of Eve Danziger of the University of Virginia will create a corpus naturalistic Garifuna [cab] speech. The data samples in the resulting corpus will have been only minimally affected by the data collection process. Garifuna is an Arawakan language spoken in several Central American countries and on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent. Broach will document the Guatemalan variety about which little has been written. Garifuna is of interest because of its unique historical origins through which it has acquired both Carib and West African features. Documenting Garifuna using both state-of-the-art ethnographic and language documentation methods, Broach will study in depth the morphological and lexical borrowings into Garifuna from Spanish and French, languages with which Garifuna is in close contact. This data will then lead to an analysis of how Garifuna has changed over time, especially as Spanish and English replace Garifuna as the language of choice for member of the speech community. Results will also inform ongoing Garifuna language revitalization efforts. Garifuna data will be archived at the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America and at LIBRA, an online open access repository for University of Virginia scholars.

说话者对面试中语言使用的回答往往倾向于正式的、规范性的规范。在弗吉尼亚大学的Eve Danziger的指导下，Alison Broach将通过收集和分析日常对话、叙述和包括祖先仪式在内的常规演讲事件的视频和音频记录，创建一个自然主义的加里富纳（cab）演讲语库。结果语料库中的数据样本只会受到数据收集过程的最小影响。加里福纳语是一种阿拉瓦克语，在中美洲的几个国家和加勒比海的圣文森特岛上使用。布拉赫将记录危地马拉的各种变化，而这些变化很少有人写过。加里富纳因其独特的历史起源而引起人们的兴趣，通过它获得了加勒比和西非的特征。使用最先进的民族志和语言文献方法记录加里富纳，布拉赫将深入研究从西班牙语和法语中借用到加里富纳的形态学和词汇，这些语言与加里富纳有密切的联系。这些数据将导致对加里福纳语如何随时间变化的分析，特别是当西班牙语和英语取代加里福纳语成为语言社区成员选择的语言时。结果也将为正在进行的加利富纳语言振兴工作提供信息。Garifuna数据将被存档在拉丁美洲土著语言档案馆和LIBRA， LIBRA是弗吉尼亚大学学者的在线开放访问库。