Conference on Minority Language Documentation for Community Language Practitioners

语言学家的主要培训中心是美国、欧洲、澳大利亚和拉丁美洲的大学。这给印度尼西亚这样的国家带来了挑战，这些国家培养的训练有素的语言学家要少得多，但世界上估计有7000种语言，其中至少有700种是在其边境地区使用的。要解决记录濒危语言方面的培训瓶颈，一种创新的合作方法是使用相对较短的培训讲习班，将具有不同专业知识的团队聚集在一起。该讲习班将举办一次为期一周的语文文件会议，会议的另一个好处是制作有关语文的文件。重点将放在Nusa Tenggara Timur的濒危语言上，因为说这些语言的人很少或根本没有纪录片方面的专业知识。东印度尼西亚语言的科学价值包括它们与该地区语言史的相关性，对这些语言的进一步记录和分析将对研究亚洲和澳大利亚大陆之间这一生物地理过渡区的两个完全不同的语系产生广泛的影响。美国研究生将获得国际实地研究和培训经验，说少数族裔语言的人将接受语言文件和归档方面的最佳实践培训。将有更多的国际合作机会。项目产品包括支持社区语言工作的材料，以及将文件存放在备受推崇的PARADISEC档案中将增加目标语言的可获得性数据。本次会议侧重于培训以英语为母语的文件工作者，因为他们往往处于更好的地位来执行文件任务，从获得适当的许可到安排录音会议，再到转录和注释文本。研讨会期间将记录来自两个完全不同语系的语言，即南岛语、中马-波利尼西亚语系和非南岛语--东帝汶-阿洛尔潘塔尔语--长期以来一直被认为是新几内亚大陆的跨新几内亚语言。这两个家族都有一些共同的类型学特征，这些特征似乎已经在各个家族中传播开来，最明显的是在语法上的占有系统，无论是在组成顺序上，还是在公开区分可剥夺的和不可剥夺的占有方面，这些特征在南岛家庭中都是罕见的。另一方面，这些语言经常区分包含性代词和独占性代词，这一特征在南岛语中很常见，但在新几内亚的非南岛语中很少见。对说濒危语言的人进行培训，以产生、在语言上注释和归档高质量的数据，将为进一步对这些和其他主题进行科学调查奠定基础。由此产生的文件将增加东印度尼西亚语言的科学知识，同时也为该地区未来的项目奠定基础，包括两组参与者、研究生和以英语为母语的文件之间可能的合作。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The major centers of training for linguists are universities in the United States, Europe, Australia and Latin America. This creates a challenge for countries like Indonesia, which produce significantly fewer trained linguists, yet at least 700 of the estimated 7,000 languages of the world are spoken with its borders. One innovative, collaborative approach to addressing the training bottleneck in documenting endangered languages is the use of relatively short training workshops that bring together teams with different expertise. This workshop will use conduct a one-week language documentation conference that has the additional benefit of producing documentation on the languages. The focus will be on the endangered languages of Nusa Tenggara Timur, since speakers of these languages have little or no documentary expertise. The scientific interest of East Indonesian languages includes their relevance to the linguistic history of the region and further documentation and analysis of these languages will have broad implications for the study of two entirely different language families in this biogeographical transition zone between the Asian and Australian continents. U.S. graduate students will gain international field research and training experience, and minority language speakers will be trained in best practices in language documentation and archiving. There will be increased international collaboration opportunities. Project products include materials supporting language efforts in the communities and the deposit of documentation in the highly regarded PARADISEC archive will increase accessible data on the targeted languages.This conference focuses on training native speaker documenters, because they are often in a better position to conduct the tasks of documentation, from securing appropriate permissions to arranging recording sessions to transcribing and annotating texts. Languages from two entirely different language families, the Austronesian Central Malayo-Polynesian family, and the non-Austronesian Timor-Alor-Pantar, long assumed to be Trans-New Guinea languages of mainland New Guinea, will be documented during the workshop. Both families share a number of typological features which appear to have diffused across the families, most notably in the system of grammatical possession, both in constituent order and in overtly distinguishing between alienable and inalienable possession, features which are rare in the Austronesian family. On the other hand, the languages often distinguish inclusive vs. exclusive pronouns, a feature common among Austronesian language but rare in the non-Austronesian languages of New Guinea. The training of endangered language speakers to produce, linguistically annotate, and archive quality data will lay the groundwork for further scientific investigation of these and other topics. The resulting documentation will increase scientific knowledge of Eastern Indonesian languages, while also laying the groundwork for future projects in this region, including possible collaborations between the two groups of participants, graduate students and native speaker documenters.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.