Meroitic Analytic Dictionary

梅洛伊分析词典

• 批准号: 392412163
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Horst Beinlich
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrstuhl für Ägyptologie
• 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/392412163?language=en
• 关键词: Meroitic; Analytic; Dictionary

Meroitic is the most ancient recorded language of Black Africa and therefore of the greatest importance in the search for their identity among Africans. Meroitic language documents date from the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE and come from find spots along the Nile from Philae south to Meroe. In the year 2000 about 1000 documents were known, most of which pertain to formulaic funerary inscriptions. Supported by the DFG, the large collections of Meroitic inscriptions from Qasr Ibrim, Gebel Adda and the Batn el-Hagar region, all of them excavated in the framework of the UNESCO campaign for the salvage of the Nubian monuments during the 1960?s, have been published by the applicant in the last fifteen years. As a result of this work, the number of known Meroitic documents has increased by half. More important than the quantitative enlargement, however, is the change in the nature of the newly enlarged text corpus because the proportion of the stereotypical written funerary texts, once 50 percent of known texts, was reduced to only 25 percent. With the addition of these new, non-formulaic types of texts, the number of previously unknown words has dramatically increased. This newly expanded corpus of documents now offers the materials needed for the creation of a dictionary of the Meroitic language presenting the current state of understanding the richness of this language. Such a dictionary does not exist. The MEROITIC ANALYTIC DICTIONARY being applied for in this application evaluates all published and most of the unpublished inscriptions, a total of about 2000 documents. It includes all Meroitic words as defined by a word divider in the original inscriptions and all incomplete words of at least three joined signs. The dictionary is organized by four different kinds of entries: words that can be grammatically analysed and reduced to their lexemes, words that cannot be analysed due to their state of preservation, names (which form their own semantic category), and finally the lexemes themselves. The time consuming analysis of the words and the identification of their lexemes is of the highest importance for further comparative linguistic studies of the Meroitic language. The lexemes, the names and the words that cannot be fully analysed are included along with full citations to their references. In addition to the analysis mentioned above, a detailed and therefore time consuming classification of each word?s use forms the second focus of the dictionary. THE MEROITIC ANALYTIC DICTIONARY includes about 23000 entries. It will be published bilingually (German and English) and will be about 1600 pages in length.

梅罗伊特语是黑非洲最古老的有记录的语言，因此对于在非洲人中寻找自己的身份至关重要。梅罗伊语的文献可以追溯到公元前世纪到公元世纪，来自尼罗河沿着从菲莱向南到梅罗伊的发现点。在2000年，大约有1000份文件是已知的，其中大部分涉及公式化的葬礼铭文。在DFG的支持下，来自Qasr Ibrim，Gebel Adda和Batn el-Hagar地区的大量Meroitic铭文，所有这些都是在1960年教科文组织抢救努比亚古迹运动的框架内挖掘出来的。申请人在过去15年内发表的。由于这项工作，已知的梅罗伊特文献数量增加了一半。然而，比数量上的扩大更重要的是，新扩大的文本语料库的性质发生了变化，因为刻板的书面丧葬文本的比例曾经占已知文本的50%，现在只占25%。随着这些新的、非公式化的文本类型的增加，以前未知的单词数量急剧增加。这个新扩展的文档语料库现在提供了创建Meroitic语言词典所需的材料，展示了对这种语言丰富性的理解的现状。这样的字典是不存在的。 在这个应用程序中应用的MEROITIC ANALYTIC DICTIONARY评估了所有已出版和大部分未出版的铭文，总共约2000份文件。它包括所有Meroitic词定义的一个词分隔符在原来的铭文和所有不完整的话至少有三个加入的迹象。词典由四种不同的条目组成：可以从语法上分析并归纳为词素的词，由于保存状态而无法分析的词，名称（形成自己的语义类别），最后是词素本身。耗时的词的分析和确定其词素是最重要的，为进一步的比较语言学研究的Meroitic语言。词素，名称和单词，不能充分分析包括沿着与充分引用他们的参考。除了上面提到的分析，每个词的详细分类，因此费时？的用法是本词典的第二个重点。该MEROITIC分析词典包括约23000个条目。这份报告将以双语（德语和英语）出版，篇幅约为1600页。