Linguistic and Documentation Training for Long Island Algonquian to Support Native American Community Language Researchers

为长岛阿尔冈昆人提供语言和文献培训，以支持美洲原住民社区语言研究人员

• 批准号: 1761657
• 负责人: Robert Hoberman
• 金额: $ 3.93万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Stony Brook
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-07-15 至 2022-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1761657&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Linguistic; Documentation; Training; Long; Island

The 1990 Native American Languages Act enacted into national policy the recognition of the unique status and importance of Native American languages. Currently, the documentary sources for the indigenous Algonquian languages of Long Island (ALI) and the nearby Southern New England mainland are fragmented and highly challenging, demanding still quite scarce in-depth linguistic expertise to make them of real practical use to scholars and teachers. Collaboratively designed by an indigenous community-member (Unkechaug) Ph.D. researcher, established community language activists, and an experienced Algonquianist linguist, this project will use workshops to make the core tools of Algonquian language analysis and documentation genuinely accessible. Algonquian linguistic structure is notoriously complex, for example, verbs that agree with both subjects and objects (as compared to English, which only displays subject-verb agreement), and further depends on a hierarchy of animacy in subjects and objects in that agreement system. Using a less technical approach, and integrating linguistic research and language revitalization, project activities will develop a richly analyzed and annotated database of ALI materials. Broader impacts include increased participation in the language sciences by Native Americans and support for community language revitalization. Moreover, this research product will be entirely public, supporting work by related Algonquian groups and an existing collaboration with the local K-12 system, even as it sets up the ALI community participants to carry this (and related) research forward as a long-term community effort.This database developed in this award will generate long-term, sustainable linguistic research infrastructure for the participating Unkechaug, Shinnecock, Montaukett, and Mohegan communities. It will also contribute substantially to the infrastructure of general (and Algonquian-specific) linguistic digital documentation and data analysis, and other fields still unable to use current-form ALI materials. Twelve monthly workshops will offer detechnicalized but rigorous training in the relevant essentials of archival and linguistic data-management, phonetics/phonology, morphosyntax/morphosemantics, historical reconstruction, and other relevant linguistic skills for annotating archival documents, all applied as hands-on work developing the preliminary ALI database. Analysis of entry, mid-project, and exit interviews with participants, and of the training presentation and content itself, provides a final set of reports and recommendations regarding the outcomes and overall effectiveness of this researcher training methodology.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.

1990年《美洲原住民语言法》将承认美洲原住民语言的独特地位和重要性纳入国家政策。目前，长岛(阿里)和附近的新英格兰南部大陆的土著阿尔冈昆语的纪录片来源是支离破碎的，极具挑战性，需要相当稀缺的深入语言专业知识才能使它们对学者和教师真正有用。该项目由一名土著社区成员(Unkechaug)博士研究员、知名社区语言活动家和一位经验丰富的阿尔冈金语言学家合作设计，将利用研讨会使阿尔冈金语言分析和文献的核心工具真正可用。阿尔冈昆的语言结构是出了名的复杂，例如，动词既与主语一致，也与宾语一致(与英语相比，英语只显示主语-动词一致)，并进一步依赖于该一致系统中主语和宾语的生命等级。项目活动将采用技术含量较低的方法，并结合语言研究和语言振兴，开发一个经过丰富分析和注释的ALI材料数据库。更广泛的影响包括美洲原住民对语言科学的更多参与和对社区语言振兴的支持。此外，这项研究成果将完全公开，支持相关阿尔冈金团体的工作和与当地K-12系统的现有合作，即使它建立了ALI社区参与者，作为社区的长期努力来推进这项(和相关的)研究。该奖项开发的数据库将为参与的Unkechaug、Shinneock、Montaukett和Mohegan社区生成长期、可持续的语言研究基础设施。它还将在很大程度上促进一般(和阿尔冈金特有的)语言数字文件和数据分析的基础设施，以及仍然无法使用当前形式的ALI材料的其他领域。每月举办12期讲习班，提供有关档案和语言数据基本要素的非技术化但严格的培训--管理、语音学/语音学、形态句法/形态管理学、历史重建和其他注释档案文件的相关语言技能，所有这些都作为开发ALI初步数据库的实际工作应用。对参与者的进入、项目中期和退出访谈，以及培训演示和内容本身的分析，提供了关于该研究人员培训方法的结果和整体有效性的最终报告和建议。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。