Strengthening Capacity in Dynamic Language Infrastructure for Tribal Nations

开展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项重要的研究。 由于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。该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者领导的项目的提交和成功奖励，特别是那些设在美洲原住民机构的项目。在此过程中，它将加强部落民族的语言基础设施能力，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。美洲原住民语言在我们理解语言是什么、语言的系统性以及人类语言在语言学理论各个领域的多样性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重要信息，例如考古学，语言数据与其他类型的数据放在一起，以重建人类史前史和文化人类学。 该项目的性质是这样的，它将导致创建的建议，重点是问题，主要是由美洲原住民塑造。这些PI对他们的语言和文化的见解可能会使他们专注于被外部学者忽视的主题的重要研究，从而扩大对美洲原住民语言研究所支持的科学进步的范围。这将使美洲原住民语言理论以与美洲原住民语言数据相同的方式为语言理论提供信息，这对语言研究具有变革潜力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。

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.