Converbal & equivalent structures: a comparative study of Selcup and Samoyedic languages

康沃巴尔

• 批准号: 445353352
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Beáta Wagner-Nagy
• 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: 2020
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2019-12-31 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/445353352?language=en
• 关键词: Converbal; equivalent; structures; comparative; study

The project aims at gathering and deepening the knowledge of the Selkup language, a small Uralic language close to extinction. The project is a followup project of the ongoing project „Syntactic description of Southern and Central Selkup: a corpus based study“, in which a digital corpus of the Selkup language has been compiled and has been used to draw conclusions on before undescribed syntactic features of the Selkup language. While researching these syntactical structures with the help of the corpus it became obvious that the rate of occurrences of converbs in the three main dialectal groups is highly variable – an issue that needs further explanation: converb constructions in general but especially under a syntactical viewpoint are not researched and described well enough for Selkup. The project aims can be subdivided into two: Firstly a typological categorization of Selkup converb constructions into functional categories has to be established. Particularly the differences in the dialects will be a focal point: Southern Selkup uses ten times the amount of converb constructions than its Central Selkup counterpart, also the Northern Selkup dialect makes much less use of these constructions. A key aspect will be the question, which structures functionally overtake the role of converb constructions in these cases.Secondly the project aims at establishing a connection between the Selkup language and the other Samoyedic languages Enets, Nenets, Nganasan and Kamas. This comparison will specifically examining the advanced functions of converb constructions in the continuum of clause linkage strategies, like the aspectual reading in auxiliary verb constructions or as an actant of phase verbs.The project will in this manner not only close a research gap in the understanding of the Selkup syntax, but will also be useful in enabling areal typological approaches for language contact research. The already compiled corpus is an ideal basis for this research project.

该项目旨在收集和加深对Selkup语言的了解，Selkup语言是一种濒临灭绝的乌拉尔语。该项目是正在进行的“南部和中部Selkup的句法描述：基于语料库的研究”项目的后续项目，该项目已汇编了Selkup语言的数字语料库，并已用于对未描述的Selkup语言的句法特征得出结论。在语料库的帮助下研究这些句法结构时，很明显，在三个主要方言组中转换的出现率是高度可变的——这是一个需要进一步解释的问题：一般的转换结构，特别是在句法的观点下，Selkup没有研究和描述得足够好。该项目的目标可以细分为两个：首先，必须建立Selkup转换结构到功能类别的类型学分类。特别是方言之间的差异将是一个焦点：南部塞尔库普使用的转换结构是中部塞尔库普方言的十倍，北部塞尔库普方言使用这些结构的次数要少得多。一个关键的方面是，在这些情况下，哪些结构在功能上取代了转换结构的作用。第二，该项目旨在建立塞尔库普语与其他萨莫耶德语（埃涅茨语、涅涅茨语、恩加纳桑语和卡马斯语）之间的联系。这一比较将具体考察转换结构在子句连接策略连续体中的高级功能，如助动词结构中的方面阅读或作为相动词的行动者。该项目将以这种方式不仅缩小对Selkup语法理解的研究差距，而且还将有助于实现语言接触研究的区域类型学方法。已编制的语料库是本研究项目的理想基础。