CAREER: Documenting temporal contrasts in an endangered language via community linguistics

职业：通过社区语言学记录濒危语言的时间对比

• 批准号: 2142340
• 负责人: Sylvia Schreiner
• 金额: $ 56.44万
• 依托单位: George Mason University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-01 至 2027-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2142340&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Documenting; temporal; contrasts; endangered

This project documents an endangered language with fewer than 1000 speakers. The language is in a period of rapid shift, with fewer and fewer people in younger generations speaking it. This project involves two interconnected parts: documenting key structures having to do with time in the language, and training native speakers, graduate students, and undergraduate students in the fundamentals of linguistics and community-centered language documentation. The sentence structure and meaning of tense and related notions in this language, which lacks required tense marking on verbs, are under-documented and poorly understood by linguists. This is a significant gap in our knowledge since tense plays a critical role in theories of language. The training provided by this project will enable two community members to engage in and later lead the documentation of their language and future reclamation activities. The instruction and explanations will be shaped by the community linguists’ own insights, and the training will serve as the basis for a curriculum that can then be used for training other members of the community. Graduate and undergraduate students will also be trained in these methods; this prepares the next generation of academic linguists to be a part of a discipline that acts in a more responsible and collaborative fashion with respect to communities of speakers. The documentation created during the project will be made available and accessible to learners, speakers, and researchers.The first objective of the project is to thoroughly document the morphosyntax and semantics of tense- and aspect-like contrasts in the language via fieldwork with native speakers and to analyze these contrasts within a generative framework. Documentation will take the form of elicitation with culturally-specific storyboards, recording of narratives and conversations, and targeted elicitation. Topics for conversation prompts will be determined in collaboration with the community revitalization group, so that documentation of traditional knowledge can be accomplished simultaneously. The second objective of the project is the reciprocal training of two community linguists along with research team members. The research team will provide training in linguistics and language documentation, and community linguists will provide input on their ways of knowing. This training will enable the community linguists to begin to lead language documentation efforts in the community, including training other community members. The training of community linguists through hands-on documentation experience, in a reciprocal knowledge-building approach, advances knowledge about this kind of capacity-building program. The culturally-specific storyboards for documentation will constitute a new resource for those working with related languages and will be easily transformed into pedagogical materials. The documentation will also add to the corpus of data from the language, which will be of great interest to linguists and computational linguists working on languages with similar structures.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.

该项目记录了一种濒临灭绝的语言，少于1000名演讲者。该语言正处于快速变化的时期，年轻一代人说的语言越来越少。该项目涉及两个相互联系的部分：文档关键结构与语言的时间有关，并在语言学和以社区为中心的语言文档的基础上培训母语者，研究生和本科生。语言学家对这种语言的句子结构和含义和相关的说明（该语言缺乏必需的时态标记）被语言学家所含糊不清且理解不足。这在我们的知识上是一个重大差距，因为时态在语言理论中起着至关重要的作用。该项目提供的培训将使两个社区成员能够参与，然后领导其语言和未来填海活动的文档。指示和解释将由社区语言学家自己的见解来塑造，培训将作为课程的基础，然后可以将其用于培训社区的其他成员。研究生和本科生也将接受这些方法的培训；这使下一代的学术语言学家成为一门学科的一部分，该学科对演讲者社区以更负责任和协作的方式行事。该项目在项目期间创建的文档将为学习者，演讲者和研究人员访问。文档将以特定于文化的故事板，叙事和对话的记录以及有针对性的启发来采取启发的形式。对话提示的主题将与社区振兴小组合作确定，以便简单地完成传统知识的文档。该项目的第二个目标是对两位社区语言学家以及研究小组成员的相互培训。研究团队将提供语言学和语言文档的培训，社区语言学家将提供有关知识方式的意见。这项培训将使社区语言学家能够开始领导社区的语言文档工作，包括培训其他社区成员。通过动手文档经验培训社区语言学家，通过一种相互的知识建设方法，可以促进有关这种能力建设计划的知识。文档特定的故事板将构成一种新资源，用于使用相关语言的人，并将很容易地转化为教学材料。该文档还将增加该语言的数据语料库，这将引起语言学家和计算语言学家在具有相似结构相似的语言上工作的计算语言学家。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响标准来评估通过评估来诚实地支持支持。