Word order variations and information structure in Ket: A corpus-based study

Ket 中的词序变化和信息结构：基于语料库的研究

• 批准号: 390565735
• 负责人: Dr. Andrey Nefedov, Ph.D.
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Finnougristik und Uralistik (IFUU)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/390565735?language=en
• 关键词: Word; order; variations; information; structure

Ket is a highly endangered language spoken in Central Siberia, the last surviving member of the Yeniseian language family. It is known to be rather radically different from all the other Siberian languages as well as hard to pigeonhole within a single typological account. The main goal of the proposed project is to provide a detailed analysis and description of word order variations and information structure in Ket, based on an electronic corpus of the language. As of yet, this particular area of grammar has received little attention in the existing literature on Ket. Moreover, despite a considerable number of available Ket text materials accommodated over the last 50 years, the absolute majority of them lack any glossing and are not available in any electronic form, let alone in the form of an electronic, machine-searchable corpus that could help perform this kind of research. This project seeks to change the situation by creating the first electronic corpus of Ket, richly annotated with various kinds of information (morphological, syntactic, sociolinguistic, etc.). The corpus will integrate both published and unpublished Ket text data spanning the period from the late 30s of the 20th century to the present day. Coupled with fieldwork, it will help to provide a comprehensive description and analysis of word order and information structure in the language. It is, however, urgent to carry out these activities as soon as possible, while there are still competent speakers of Ket who can help to complete these tasks.Therefore, the proposed project is meant not only to fill the existing gaps in the description of Ket grammar, but also to benefit both the language and academic communities with an important asset in the form of an open-access corpus. It is sure to help encourage and greatly facilitate future studies of Ket, before this unique language disappears completely.

Ket是一种高度濒危的语言，分布在西伯利亚中部，是叶尼塞语系最后一个幸存的成员。众所周知，它与所有其他西伯利亚语言有着根本的不同，很难归类于一个单一的类型学账户。拟议项目的主要目标是提供一个详细的分析和描述的词序变化和信息结构的Ket，基于语言的电子语料库。到目前为止，这一特定的语法领域在现有的关于Ket的文献中很少受到关注。此外，尽管在过去的50年里有相当数量的可用的Ket文本材料，但其中绝大多数缺乏任何注释，并且没有任何电子形式，更不用说以电子形式，机器搜索语料库可以帮助进行这种研究。该项目试图通过创建第一个Ket电子语料库来改变这种情况，该语料库用各种信息（形态，句法，社会语言学等）进行了丰富的注释。该语料库将整合从20世纪世纪末到现在的已出版和未出版的Ket文本数据。结合田野调查，将有助于对语言中的语序和信息结构进行全面的描述和分析。然而，在目前仍有一些有能力的Ket语使用者能够帮助完成这些任务的情况下，尽快开展这些活动是非常紧迫的。因此，拟议的项目不仅旨在填补Ket语语法描述方面的现有空白，而且还将以开放获取语料库的形式使语言和学术界受益。它肯定有助于鼓励和极大地促进未来的研究Ket，在这种独特的语言完全消失之前。