Corpus building and corpus-based grammatical studies on Nganasan

Nganasan 语料库构建和基于语料库的语法研究

• 批准号: 246706378
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Beáta Wagner-Nagy
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Finnougristik und Uralistik (IFUU)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2012-12-31 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/246706378?language=en
• 关键词: Corpus; building; corpus; based; grammatical

The scheduled project aims at compiling a corpus based reference grammar of the Nganasan language. The main task in the project will consist in building a digitized annotated corpus to be published online and made accessible to the scientific community, thus allowing for further scientific investigations on Nganasan. Such a corpus of considerable size that would allow for various search options is not available for Nganasan yet and is, even compared to other relevant projects on small Uralic languages, an innovative output. Nganasan is a highly endangered language numbering as few as ca. 125 speakers living on the Taimyr Peninsula in Northern Siberia. Despite the considerable efforts that have been made to collect, systematize and publish Nganasan language data so far, the nature and quality of these data make further steps in the documentation of the language necessary. Most of the published texts represent folklore genres; spontaneous speech and conversation are especially rare among the available data. Part of the texts is glossed, but not comprehensively annotated. Several grammars of Nganasan have been compiled to date. However, they do not present up-to-date accounts of the language, as they mainly take a semasiological approach and, thus, facilitate typological analysis to a limited extent only.One output of the project will consist in an annotated corpus containing language data collected so far and, a smaller share to be collected during the project. The corpus will be interlinked and published online, which will allow a free use of the corpora for the purposes of linguistic research. A second output of the project will be a grammar based on evidence derived from the corpus as well as on newly elicited data. The planned grammatical research will concentrate on syntactic studies of Nganasan, which represent a scarcely investigated research domain in Uralic studies. With the aim of supplementing the existing text corpus with texts of certain types and of eliciting data for the reference grammar, two field trips, in the first and second year of the project, will be carried out. It has to be emphasized that, given the actual sociolinguistic situation, the project will very probably involve the last speakers of Nganasan, which lends special importance and urgency to the project.

计划中的项目旨在编制一份基于语料库的Nganasan语参考语法。该项目的主要任务将是建立一个数字化的带注释的语料库，在网上发表，供科学界查阅，从而能够对Nganasan进行进一步的科学调查。这样一个相当大的语料库可以提供各种搜索选择，但Nganasan目前还没有这样的语料库，即使与其他有关小型乌拉尔语的项目相比，这也是一个创新的成果。Nganasan是一种高度濒危的语言，生活在北西伯利亚的泰米尔半岛上，有大约125名讲Nganasan的人。尽管迄今已作出相当大的努力来收集、整理和出版恩加纳桑语数据，但由于这些数据的性质和质量，有必要采取进一步步骤编制该语言的文件。出版的文本大多代表民俗流派；在可获得的数据中，自发的演讲和对话尤其罕见。部分文本有注解，但没有全面注解。到目前为止，已经汇编了几个Nganasan语法。然而，它们并不提供这种语言的最新描述，因为它们主要采取语义学的方法，因此在有限的程度上促进了类型学分析。该项目的一个产出将是一个包含迄今收集的语言数据的带注释的语料库，在项目期间收集的份额较小。语料库将相互链接并在网上公布，这将使语料库能够免费用于语言研究目的。该项目的第二个产出将是基于语料库的证据以及新获得的数据的语法。计划中的语法研究将集中在Nganasan的句法研究上，这在乌拉尔语研究中是一个鲜有调查的研究领域。为了用某些类型的文本补充现有的文本语料库，并为参考语法收集数据，将在该项目的第一年和第二年进行两次实地考察。必须强调的是，鉴于实际的社会语言情况，该项目很可能涉及恩加纳桑语的最后一名发言者，这使该项目具有特殊的重要性和紧迫性。