Morphologically Complex Data Collection and Analysis for Improving Lexicographic Models

分析性词典提供了有关个别语言中可能的和不可能的声音组合以及单词和从句结构的信息。语言学家和认知科学家挖掘分析性词典，以揭示关于地点、事物和动作的词义和文化意义的知识，以及说话者如何引用这些内容。这些词典还有助于发现普遍可预测的或新发现的语法模式。该项目收集数据，以创建一种具有异常复杂的动词词法的语言的分析词典。为这个项目与年长出生的人一起进行的原始田野调查增加了关于语言结构的关键信息，这些信息反过来又为语言学的各个子领域提供信息，如历史语言学、比较语言学、词法和句法。该项目支持教育和多样性，让美洲原住民长老、教师和学习者参与创建高质量、全面和持久的语言资源。该项目扩展了当前的词典模型，以处理复杂的动词词法。该项目审查了现有的词汇数据库，以找出词条中的差距，并通过采访说濒危语言的老年人收集的信息来分析和填补差距。这些长辈掌握着其他地方没有记载的关键词汇和语法知识。调查人员将这些新收集的信息以一种数据格式添加到现有的数据格式中，随着新数据的出现，该格式可以很容易地修改和扩充。在该项目下开展的研究采用了一种语言记录方法，确保当前和未来的学习者和研究人员有机会查阅新记录的词汇项目，这些词汇项目为编写科学语言材料提供了必要的数据。这些材料可以被非学术社区用于语言和文化复兴。这一奖项反映了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。

Analytic dictionaries provide information on the possible and impossible sound combinations and words and clause structures found in individual languages. Linguists and cognitive scientists mine analytic dictionaries to uncover knowledge about word meaning and cultural significance of places, things, and actions and how these are referred to by speakers. These dictionaries are also useful for discovery of universally predictable or newly discovered grammatical patterns. This project collects data to create an analytic dictionary of a language with unusually complex verb morphology. The original fieldwork conducted with elder birth speakers for this project adds crucial information on the structure of the language, which in turn informs various subfields of linguistics such as historical linguistics, comparative linguistics, morphology, and syntax. This project supports education and diversity, engaging the Native American elders, teachers, and learners in creating a high-quality, comprehensive, and enduring language resource. The project expands current lexicographic models to deal with complex verb morphology. The project reviews existing lexical databases to locate gaps in entries and analyzes and fills gaps through information collected via interviews of elder speakers of endangered languages. These elders hold key pieces of lexical and grammatical knowledge that have not been documented elsewhere. The investigator adds this newly collected information to the existing in a data format that is easily revised and augmented as new data becomes available. Research conducted under this project implements a language documentation method that ensures that current and future learners and researchers have the opportunity to access newly documented lexical items, which provide the necessary data for the development of scientific language materials. These materials can be used by the nonacademic community for language and culture revitalization.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.