Reconstruction of the middle-marking morphology and its functions in Southern Chin

在大阪大学任职后，Zakaria博士于2021年2月与David Peterson博士（美国达特茅斯学院）一起发表了关于Kuki-Chin语言中间的演讲。根据他们的谈话，他们正在准备一篇将发表在期刊上的论文。他们希望在2022年6月之前完成论文。他还能够在Hyow上完成一篇关于中间评分的论文，该论文正在出版中。由于冲突和全球大流行，他只能在2021年8月开始在洛克图的远程实地工作。2021年5月至2021年7月，对middle进行文献综述。此外，他还撰写了两篇关于Hyow接触引起的变化的论文草稿。他在第二届“东北-缅甸-中国西南地区语言和文化多样性研讨会”上发表了受邀演讲。这篇论文将发表在2023年的《亚洲语言与语言学杂志》特刊上。他已将另一篇初稿提交给一家学术期刊，目前正在接受审稿。从2021年8月到2022年3月，他记录了18段洛克图语文本。他已经能够抄写和翻译其中的七篇文章。由于找不到顾问，工作进展缓慢。到这个时候，他还能够引出一个包含洛克图语中可能的中间动词的单词列表。此外，他还在洛克图语和苏姆图语中引出了人称标记的前缀和后缀范式。他还起草了一份关于东南语言中音和动词词干变化的草案。他希望在今年完成初稿，并将其提交给《语言与语言学》杂志。

After starting his position at Osaka University, Dr. Zakaria presented a talk on middles in Kuki-Chin languages with Dr David Peterson (Dartmouth College, USA) in February 2021. Based on their talk, they have been preparing a paper to be published in a journal. They hope to finish the paper by June 2022. He was also able to work on a paper on middle marking in Hyow, which is in press.Due to the conflict and global pandemic, he could start the remote fieldwork in Loktu only in August 2021. From May 2021 to July 2021, he did literature review on middles. In addition, he was able to write two draft papers on contact-induced changes in Hyow. He presented an invited talk based on one of the draft papers to the 2nd Workshop on Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in the Northeast India-Myanmar-Southwest China region. This paper will appear in a special edition of Journal of Asian Languages and Linguistics in 2023. He has submitted the other draft paper to an academic journal and it is currently undergoing review.From August 2021 to March 2022, he was able to record 18 Loktu texts. He has been able to transcribe and translate seven of the texts. Due to unavailability of consultants, the work progressed slowly. By this time, he was also able to elicit a word list containing possible middle verbs in Loktu. In addition, he also elicited person-marking prefixal and suffixal paradigm in Loktu and Sumtu. he has also made a draft on middles and verb-stem alternations in Southeastern languages. He expects to finish the draft by this year and submit it to the journal Language and Linguistics.