Documenting a severely endangered language variety

从语言学和教学学的角度探索克里奥尔语研究，该项目通过提供一种有凝聚力的方法，为语言接触，语言文献和语言振兴提供新的理论和应用见解，从而提高了我们对该主题的认识。特别是，它使用与母语者的访谈记录在农村地区的方言语法。传统的语言种类正受到严重威胁，因为只有几百人能流利地使用它。这个项目的目标之一是建立一个传统语言的语法。对语言的详细分析提供了一个更好的理解语法现象，目前还没有很好地理解。从理论的角度来看，这项工作提供了新的见解接触驱动的重组跨语言界面和语言域的性质。此外，这项研究为正在进行的关于克里奥尔语起源的辩论提供了新的视角。该奖项是国家科学基金会和国家人文基金会为NSF动态语言基础设施- NEH记录濒危语言计划建立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。

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.