A corpus-based contrastive study tense, aspect, modality and polarity (TAMP) in Austronesian languages of Melanesia (MelaTAMP)

对世界语言的TAMP系统（时态、体、情态和极性）的研究主要集中在时态和体的作用上，而不是情态的作用，特别是关于情态意义的真实性维度。此外，我们对这种系统的最详细的了解往往来自时态突出的语言（在Bhat 1999年的术语中）;而那些进入大规模调查的语气突出语言的数据可能是有偏见的，因为引出和描述通常是基于作者自己的，通常是时态突出的母语。只有在最近几年才有大量的原始数据，从情绪突出的语言成为可通过语言文件。我们建议探索语料库数据从七大洋语言的美拉尼西亚，这已被称为情绪突出，面积类型学研究他们的TAMP系统。额外的启发将专门设计，以填补语料库数据留下的空白。第二，美拉尼西亚的语言通常只有几百到几千人使用，而且没有书面记录的传统，这使得研究人员除了个别的语法描述外，基本上无法接触到它们。通过探索现有的，注释语料库，我们将增加他们的可访问性都对TAMP相关方面的研究，并为其他类型学研究问题。

Studies on the TAMP systems (tense, aspect, modality and polarity) of the world's languages have focused on the roles of tense and aspect rather than of modality - especially concerning the veridicality dimension of modal meanings. Moreover, our most detailed knowledge about such systems tends to come from tense-prominent languages (in the terminology of Bhat 1999); and those data from mood-prominent languages that have made their way into large-scale surveys may be biased because elicitations and descriptions were often based on the authors' own, usually tense-prominent, mothertongue. Only in recent years have large amounts of primary data from mood-prominent languages become available through language documentation. We propose to explore corpus data from seven Oceanic languages of Melanesia, which have been known to be mood-prominent, for an areal typological study of their TAMP systems. Additional elicitations will be designed specifically to fill the gaps left by the corpus data. Second, the languages of Melanesia are typically spoken by only several hundred to several thousand speakers, and do not have a tradition of written records, which has made them largely inaccessible to researchers, except for individual grammatical descriptions. By exploring existing, annotated corpora, we will increase their accessibility both for studies on TAMP-related aspects, and for other typological research questions.