Documenting a severely endangered language variety

该项目从语言学和教学学的角度探索克里奥尔语研究，通过提供一种有凝聚力的方法，为语言接触、语言记录和语言复兴提供新的理论和应用见解，从而增进我们对该学科的了解。特别是，它通过对母语人士的采访来记录乡村中各种方言的语法。这种传统品种受到严重威胁，因为只有几百人能够熟练掌握它。该项目的目标之一是创建传统语言的语法。对语言的详细分析可以更好地理解目前尚未充分理解的语法现象。从理论角度来看，这项工作为跨语言界面和语言领域的接触驱动重组的本质提供了新的见解。此外，这项研究为正在进行的有关克里奥尔语言起源的争论提供了新的线索。该奖项是美国国家科学基金会和国家人文基金会之间针对 NSF 动态语言基础设施 - NEH 记录濒危语言计划的资助伙伴关系的一部分。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Exploring creole studies from a linguistic and a pedagogical perspective, this project advances our knowledge of the subject by offering a cohesive approach to provide new theoretical and applied insights into language contact, language documentation and language revitalization. In particular, it uses interviews with native speakers to document the grammar of a vernacular variety spoken in rural villages. The traditional variety is severely endangered, since only a few hundred people possess a good degree of fluency in it. Among the goals of this project is the creation of a grammar of the traditional language.A detailed analysis of the language provides a better understanding of grammatical phenomena that are not currently well understood. From a theoretical perspective, this work provides new insights into the nature of contact-driven restructuring across linguistic interfaces and language domains. In addition, this study casts new light on the ongoing debate regarding the origin of creole languages. This award is made as part of a funding partnership between the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities for the NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure – NEH Documenting Endangered Languages Program.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.