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Linguistic and Ethnographic Investigations of Place Names and Narratives in Two Alaska Dene Languages: Toklat (Lower Tanana) and Middle Tanana

两种阿拉斯加丹尼语言的地名和叙述的语言学和民族志调查：托克拉特（下塔纳纳）和中塔纳纳

基本信息

批准号：
1664455
负责人：
James Kari
金额：
$ 19.17万
依托单位：
University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2017-08-15 至 2021-01-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1664455&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Linguistic Ethnographic Investigations Place Names

项目摘要

The Native American Languages Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1990, enacted into policy the recognition of the unique status and importance of Native American languages. These languages are present in everyday life for most Americans in the names for places, plants, animals and more. This project will focus on place names for two Central Alaska Native languages and their dialects. Both languages are what is known as 'sleeping' languages, when there are no remaining fluent first language speakers. Focusing on extensive collections of audio recordings and language and ethnographic notes, this project will prioritize these materials for transcription and editing. Importantly, the project will also include a focus on place names, not just the names themselves, but also cultural vocabulary and narratives where places are discussed and integrating Geographic Information System (GIS) data in a multilingual format. The interrelated methods employed for dictionary files, texts, cultural vocabulary, and geographic annotation will create a durable archival record. Broader impacts include the accessibility of place names (of importance for communities, geographers, and governmental agencies, among others), outreach to public schools, and materials available to Alaska Native communities for language and cultural revitalization. The products and digital files for the project will be available through the Alaska Native Language Center and the Alaska Native Language Archive.The project will serve as the capstone of a productive career for the PI, who has spent nearly five decades documenting the Dene languages, especially those of Alaska, including the focus of this work, the Toklat dialect of the Lower Tanana language (the lower Kantishna River & the Toklat River) and the Middle Tanana language (Tanana River between Moose Creek and Goodpaster River). The Dene (formerly Athabaskan) language family is of great significance to linguistics, with members including Navajo, Apache, and numerous Alaska languages. Both Toklat and Middle Tanana have extensive collections of narratives and ethnographic notes recorded between 1964 and 2000, including from well-known storytellers Bessie Barnabus and Eva Moffit, from Salcha and Hester Evan and Celia Peterson, from Toklat & Nenana. Incorporating women's language will further enrich the documentation and historical record. The project will also give special attention to geographic names and place annotations for the middle and lower Tanana Valley Dene language groups. Two dictionary files for Middle Tanana and Lower Tanana that were begun in the 1990s will be expanded to include shared Dene cultural vocabulary items, the common verb themes, and all grammatical morphemes. Place name records for the two languages will be combined in stages with place name inventories for adjacent Dene languages (Ahtna, Tanacross and Koyukon). These expanded materials will clarify the classification of the Dene languages of the lower Tanana Valley and the study of Alaska prehistory. The beta version of this multilingual Dene geodatabase with a digital webmap will foster editorial consistency and mapping accuracy. Eventually (and beyond the scope of this project), this extensible multilingual Alaska Dene place names geodatabase can facilitate the integration of Dene geographic information with scientific databases (in archaeology, ecology, or climatology), or language learning, or for public education, applied toponymy (official naming) and land management by both tribal and government entities.

美国国会于1990年通过了《美洲原住民语言法案》，将承认美洲原住民语言的独特地位和重要性制定为政策。对于大多数美国人来说，这些语言存在于日常生活中，比如地名、植物、动物等等。这个项目将重点关注阿拉斯加中部两种土著语言及其方言的地名。这两种语言都是所谓的“睡眠”语言，当没有剩下流利的第一语言使用者时。该项目侧重于广泛收集的录音、语言和民族志笔记，将优先考虑这些材料的转录和编辑。重要的是，该项目还将重点关注地名，而不仅仅是地名本身，还包括文化词汇和叙述，在这些词汇和叙述中讨论地点，并以多语言格式整合地理信息系统（GIS）数据。字典文件、文本、文化词汇和地理注释所采用的相互关联的方法将创建一个持久的档案记录。更广泛的影响包括地名的可访问性（对社区、地理学家和政府机构等都很重要），向公立学校的推广，以及向阿拉斯加土著社区提供语言和文化振兴的材料。该项目的产品和数字文件将通过阿拉斯加本土语言中心和阿拉斯加本土语言档案馆提供。该项目将成为PI富有成效的职业生涯的顶点，PI花了近50年的时间记录Dene语言，特别是阿拉斯加的语言，包括本工作的重点，下塔纳纳语（下坎蒂什纳河和托克拉特河）和中塔纳纳语（塔纳纳河之间的穆斯溪和古德帕斯特河）的托克拉特方言。Dene（原Athabaskan）语族对语言学有重要意义，其成员包括纳瓦霍语、阿帕奇语和许多阿拉斯加语。托克拉特和中塔纳纳都收藏了大量1964年至2000年间记录的叙事和民族志笔记，其中包括来自萨尔查的著名说书人贝西·巴纳布斯和伊娃·莫菲特，海丝特·埃文和来自托克拉特和内纳纳的西莉亚·彼得森。纳入妇女语言将进一步丰富文献和历史记录。该项目还将特别关注Tanana山谷中下游Dene语言群体的地理名称和地点注释。上世纪90年代开始的中塔纳纳语和下塔纳纳语两个字典文件将被扩展，以包括共享的迪纳文化词汇项、共同的动词主题和所有语法语素。这两种语言的地名记录将与邻近的Dene语言（Ahtna、Tanacross和Koyukon）的地名记录分阶段合并。这些扩充后的资料将有助于厘清塔纳纳河谷下游Dene语言的分类和阿拉斯加史前史的研究。这个带有数字网络地图的多语种地理数据库的测试版将促进编辑的一致性和制图的准确性。最终（也超出了这个项目的范围），这个可扩展的多语言阿拉斯加迪尼地名地理数据库可以促进迪尼地理信息与科学数据库（考古学、生态学或气候学）、语言学习、公共教育、应用地名（官方命名）和部落和政府实体的土地管理的整合。