Enriching knowledge of linguistic typology and language classification through linguistic and cultural documentation and analysis of an unknown language complex.

通过语言和文化记录以及对未知语言复合体的分析，丰富语言类型学和语言分类的知识。

• 批准号: 1941828
• 负责人: Jeffrey Heath
• 金额: $ 18.66万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-10-01 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1941828&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enriching; knowledge; linguistic; typology; language

Languages spoken by small populations are threatened by globalization and socioeconomic change, yet they contain undocumented linguistic and cultural knowledge that leads to a deeper understanding of language use and language structure. This project focuses on linguistic and anthropological analysis of closely related languages that have not yet received systematic attention. The research will advance scientific knowledge of linguistic properties of these under-described languages, and provide new insight into what appear to be highly unusual tone systems and word order properties. The project will further shed light on the understanding of how many languages there are in this language complex and their relationships to each other based on linguistic criteria such as mutual intelligibility and structural intelligibility, and of contact dynamics with neighboring languages. The research will produce a theoretically informed grammar as well as a dictionary, texts, and videos with a focus on practical activities, flora and fauna vocabulary and related ethnobiological information, and reminiscences about now locally extinct megafauna, representing scientific knowledge that that is disappearing with the societal changes that are rapidly occurring.The linguistic component of this project will lead to a theoretically informed corpus-based analysis of these related languages. Products will include audio/video recordings of various genres, reference grammars drawing from the collected corpora as well as elicitation, and dictionaries. The theoretical analyses that will inform important questions in typological theory, in particular in the domains of tone and word order. The collected data will illuminate both the present-day ethno-linguistic landscape of the region and address unsolved issues in language classification. The products of this project will be of value to linguists as well as other sciences.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.

少数人口使用的语言受到全球化和社会经济变化的威胁，但它们包含未记录的语言和文化知识，可以更深入地了解语言使用和语言结构。该项目侧重于对尚未得到系统关注的密切相关语言进行语言学和人类学分析。这项研究将推进对这些未被充分描述的语言的语言特性的科学认识，并为看似极不寻常的音调系统和词序特性提供新的见解。该项目将进一步阐明在这个语言综合体中有多少种语言，以及基于相互可理解性和结构可理解性等语言标准的相互关系，以及与邻近语言的接触动态。这项研究将产生一套有理论依据的语法、词典、文本和视频，重点是实践活动、动植物词汇和相关的民族生物学信息，以及对当地灭绝的巨型动物的回忆，代表着随着快速发生的社会变化而消失的科学知识。这个项目的语言组成部分将导致这些相关语言的理论知情的基于语料库的分析。产品将包括各种体裁的录音/录像，从收集的语料库中提取的参考语法和启发，以及词典。理论分析，将告知在类型学理论的重要问题，特别是在语气和语序的领域。收集的数据将阐明该地区目前的民族语言景观，并解决语言分类中未解决的问题。这个项目的成果对语言学家和其他科学都有价值。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。