Strengthening Capacity in Dynamic Language Infrastructure for Tribal Nations

进行科学调查的一个重要方面是拥有开展这些活动所需的资源(如人员、建筑物或设备)，即基础设施。科学研究人员的多样性是另一个重要的调查。随着科学家将女性或有色人种包括在内，不同的研究问题、假设或认识论框架增加了从生物学到医学再到工程学等一系列领域的基础知识。这一奖项将使会议和相关会议能够提供培训机会，并在美洲原住民团体成员和具有赠款经验的语言学家之间建立伙伴关系，以帮助增加美洲原住民主要研究人员领导的项目在语言科学方面的提交和成功奖项，特别是那些设在美洲原住民机构的项目。通过这样做，它将加强部落国家语言基础设施的能力，并使调查人员(以及研究问题和认识论)多样化，以促进语言科学的基础知识。项目活动将扩大美洲原住民对语言学的参与，并为美洲原住民创造经济和科学机会。美国原住民的语言在我们对语言是什么、它的系统性以及人类语言的多样性的所有语言理论领域的理解方面做出了重大的智力贡献。除此之外，它们还为其他科学提供了关键信息，如考古学，在考古学中，语言数据与其他类型的数据放在一起，以重建人类史前史，以及文化人类学。该项目的性质是，它将导致创建专注于主要由美洲原住民决定的问题的提案。这些私人投资机构对他们的语言和文化的洞察力可能会导致他们专注于被外部学者忽视的主题的重要研究，从而扩大可以通过对美洲土著语言的研究来支持的科学进步的范围。这将允许美国原住民语言理论以与来自美国原住民语言的数据大致相同的方式为语言理论提供信息，这对语言研究具有变革的潜力。这一奖项反映了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。

One important dimension of carrying out scientific investigation is having the resources (such as personnel, buildings, or equipment) needed to carry out these activities, that is, infrastructure. Diversity of scientific investigators is another important investigation. As scientists have included women or people of color, different research questions, assumptions or epistemological frameworks increased fundamental knowledge about a host of fields, ranging from biology to medicine to engineering. This award will enable a conference, and associated meetings, to provide training opportunities and establish partnerships between members of Native American groups and linguists with grant experience in order to help increase submissions and successful awards in the language sciences for projects led by Native American principal investigators, especially those based at Native American institutions. In doing so, it will strengthen capacity in language infrastructure for tribal nations, as well as diversify the pool of investigators (and the research questions and epistemologies) to advance fundamental knowledge in the language sciences. Project activities will broaden participation of Native Americans in linguistics, as well as build economic and scientific opportunities for Native Americans.Native American languages have led to significant intellectual contributions in our understanding of what language is, its systematicity, and the diversity of human language in all areas of linguistic theory. Beyond that, they have provided crucial information to other sciences, such as archaeology, where language data is placed alongside other kinds of data in order to reconstruct human prehistory, and cultural anthropology. The nature of the project is such that it will lead to the creation of proposals focused on questions largely shaped by Native Americans. The insights of such PIs about their languages and cultures are likely to lead them to focus on important research on topics that have been neglected by outside scholars and, thereby, expand the range of scientific advances that can be supported by research on Native American languages. This will allow Native American theories of language to inform linguistic theory in much the same way that data from Native American languages has, which has transformative potential for the study of language.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.