Conference on Minority Language Documentation for Community Language Practitioners

培训语言学家的主要中心是美国、欧洲、澳大利亚和拉丁美洲的大学。 这给印度尼西亚等国家带来了挑战，这些国家训练有素的语言学家明显较少，但世界上估计有7,000种语言中至少有700种是在其边界上使用的。 解决濒危语言记录培训瓶颈的一个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。该讲习班将利用联合国教科文组织提供的信息，举办为期一周的语文文件会议，其额外好处是编制有关语文的文件。重点将放在努沙登加拉帖木儿的濒危语言上，因为讲这些语言的人很少或根本没有文献方面的专门知识。 东印度尼西亚语言的科学兴趣包括它们与该地区语言历史的相关性，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的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，少数民族语言使用者将接受语言文档和归档方面的最佳实践培训。国际合作的机会将会增加。 项目产品包括支持社区语言工作的材料，并将文件存款在备受推崇的PARADISEC档案馆，以增加目标语言的可访问数据。本次会议的重点是培训母语文档工作者，因为他们通常能够更好地执行文档工作，从获得适当的许可到安排录音会议，再到转录和注释文本。来自两个完全不同语系的语言，南岛语系的中马来-波利尼西亚语系和非南岛语系的帝汶-阿洛-潘塔尔语，长期以来被认为是新几内亚大陆的跨新几内亚语言，将在研讨会期间记录在案。这两个科都有一些类型学上的特征，这些特征似乎在各个科中都有所扩散，最明显的是语法占有系统，包括成分顺序和明显区分不可剥夺和不可剥夺的占有，这些特征在南岛语族中是罕见的。另一方面，这些语言经常区分包容性和排他性代词，这在南岛语中很常见，但在新几内亚的非南岛语中很少见。对濒危语言使用者进行培训，以制作、语言注释和存档高质量数据，将为进一步科学调查这些和其他主题奠定基础。由此产生的文献将增加印尼东部语言的科学知识，同时也为该地区未来的项目奠定基础，包括两组参与者，研究生和母语文献工作者之间可能的合作。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

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.