A corpus-based reference grammar of Hocank, a Siouan language of Native North America.

该项目的目标是开发一个基于Hocank语法的语料库，Hocank是北美一种高度濒危的语言。这将是这种语言的第一个综合语法，否则只有很差的文档和描述。语料库语言搜索程序将应用于Hocank文本语料库，该语料库是在由大众汽车基金会（2003-2008）资助的文档项目（DOBES倡议）中建立的。在第一步中，Hocank DOBES文本语料库将扩展作者的现场注释和在Hocank词典工作期间得出的材料。在第二步，语料库语言学搜索程序为每个语法主题将被开发和应用到整个语料库。这些搜索过程代表了符号学和象形学的研究问题。将用于语料库搜索的软件是PoioAnalyzer， Elan和Toolbox。搜索结果将以两种不同版本的语法进行分析和总结。第一个版本将是印刷版，包含丰富的主题索引。这个印刷版将类似于传统的参考语法。第二个版本是一个将在网上提供的超文本文档。本文档的链接结构使用户可以轻松地从符号学或象形学的角度查找语法问题的信息。霍坎克计划的语法将成为语言类型学以及描述和文献语言学的科学资产。它将展示这门语言的类型学特征——在整个语言系统中，有相当多的类型学特征。待开发的经验方法将提出描述语言学和文献语言学，因为搜索程序将普遍化，也可以应用于其他类似的濒危语言语料库。文献语言学将从这个项目中受益于两个方面：首先，它将被证明，它确实有可能从一个文献项目收集的数据中开发一个描述性语法。其次，它将是一种语言的语法，可能会在未来15到20年内完全消失。

The goal of the project is the development of a corpus based grammar of Hocank, a highly endangered language of North America. This will be the first comprehensive grammar of this language which is otherwise only poorly documented and described. Corpus linguistic search procedures will be applied to the Hocank text corpus that was established during a documentation project (DOBES initiative) funded by the Volkswagen Foundation (2003-2008). In a first step, the Hocank DOBES text corpus will be expanded with fieldnotes of the author and material which was elicited during the work on the Hocank lexicon. In a second step, the corpus linguistics search procedures for each grammatical topic will be developed and applied to the full corpus. These search procedures represent semasiological and onomasiological research questions. The software that will be applied for the corpus searches are PoioAnalyzer, Elan, and Toolbox.The hits will be analyzed and summarized in a grammar which will appear in two different versions. The first version will be a print version that cointains a rich index of topics. This print version will resemble traditional reference grammars. The second version is a hypertext document that will be made available online. The linking structure of this document allows users to find information on grammatical questions - from a semasiological or onomasiological perspective - easily. The planned grammar of Hocank will be a scientific asset for language typology as well as for descriptive and documentary linguistics. It will show the typological peculiarities of this language - and there are quite a few - within the system of the whole language. The empirical methods to be developed will bring forward descriptive linguistics and documentary linguistics, since the search procedures will be generalized and may be applied to other similar corpora of endangered languages too. Documentary linguistics will profit from this project in two respects: first, it will be demonstrated that it is in deed possible to develope a descriptive grammar from the data collected by a documentation project. And secondly, it will be a grammar of a language that will disappear probably within the next 15 or 20 years completely.