Ergativity and Information Structure: Comparing Chibchan languages

作格性和信息结构：比较 Chibchan 语言

• 批准号: 430277854
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Stavros Skopeteas
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Sprachwissenschaftliches Seminar
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/430277854?language=en
• 关键词: Ergativity; Information; Structure; Comparing; Chibchan

Linguistic research in the last decades has established substantial knowledge about complex grammatical phenomena at several layers of the grammar. A challenge for the current linguistic research is to understand the linking between these layers of linguistic structure. This project investigates two layers of clause structure: alignment and information structure as well as the interaction between these layers. The project targets are motivated by the current research and collaboration of a network of French and German linguists sharing a common interest in the creation of empirical and analytical tools for the description of endangered languages. It will provide deeply annotated corpora and empirical studies on a language family that is understudied and underrepresented in linguistic research, namely Chibchan (the members being dispersed in the geographical area from Honduras in Central America to Colombia and Venezuela in South America). The core team of the project will examine three languages in detail (Pesh, Cabécar, Ika) and the project partners will conduct comparative studies in further languages, in order to obtain a detailed picture of the micro-variation within this language family. The methodological approach combines exploratory research based on corpora and confirmatory research through field experiments. This combined approach will provide insights into the different types of field data and will yield a sustainable resource for future study of the Chibchan languages. The research goals include (a) a detailed structural investigation of the syntactic and semantic properties of ergativity, (b) a study on information structure focusing on the role of microvariation in word order possibilities, and (c) a precise examination of the role of information structure in languages with optional ergative marking, which is a phenomenon that has been observed for several languages but is not yet studied or understood in detail. The project teams integrate a large group of linguists in France and Germany and will enhance their existing collaborations with cooperative measures in research and in the qualification of PhD students that will lead to collaborative products and will create a scientific network.

在过去的几十年里，语言学研究已经在语法的几个层面上建立了关于复杂语法现象的大量知识。当前语言学研究的一个挑战是理解语言结构的这些层次之间的联系。本课题研究小句结构的两个层次：对齐结构和信息结构以及这两个层次之间的相互作用。该项目的目标是由一个法国和德国语言学家网络的当前研究和合作的动机，他们在创建描述濒危语言的经验和分析工具方面有着共同的兴趣。它将提供深入注释的语料库和经验研究的一个语系，是研究不足和代表性不足的语言研究，即Chibchan（成员被分散在地理区域从洪都拉斯在中美洲哥伦比亚和委内瑞拉在南美洲）。该项目的核心团队将详细研究三种语言（Pesh，Cabécar，Ika），项目合作伙伴将对其他语言进行比较研究，以详细了解该语言家族中的微观变化。研究方法采用基于语料库的探索性研究和通过实地实验的验证性研究相结合的方法。这种结合的方法将提供不同类型的现场数据的见解，并将产生一个可持续的资源，为未来的研究Chibchan语言。研究目标包括：（a）对作格的句法和语义特征进行详细的结构调查;（B）对信息结构进行研究，重点关注语序可能性中微观变化的作用;（c）对具有可选作格标记的语言中信息结构的作用进行精确的检查，这是一种已经在几种语言中观察到的现象，但尚未被详细研究或理解。该项目团队整合了法国和德国的一大群语言学家，并将加强他们在研究和博士生资格方面的合作措施，这将导致合作产品，并将创建一个科学网络。