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A Study of indigenous languages in and around New Caledonia -descriptive grammar of Neku and Tinrin

新喀里多尼亚及周边地区土著语言研究——Neku和Tinrin的描述性语法

基本信息

批准号：
16520261
负责人：
OSUMI Midori
金额：
$ 2.18万
依托单位：
Tokyo Woman's Christian University
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
财政年份：
2004
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
2004 至 2006
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

In this research project, we have investigated indigenous languages in New Caledonia and the surrounding area, with the purpose of recording sounds, texts and stories, describing grammars, and compiling dictionaries. Specifically, we have looked at Neku and Tinrin, the two Oceanic languages spoken in the southern part of the main island of New Caledonia, Apart from the official language French, twenty-eight indigenous languages belonging to the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family are spoken in the main island of New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands. These indigenous languages are greatly endangered, the majority of them having less than 1000 speakers.Neku and Tinrin, spoken only by around 200 speakers, have been little investigated until recently, with Tinrin Grammar (Osumi 1995) as the only publication to date on the grammar of Tinrin. The research done in this project is a significant contribution to Oceanic linguistics in providing several new linguistic discoveries and filling gaps in comparative linguistics, in addition to shedding light on, and describing the least-investigated languages of New Caledonia.Osumi carried out fieldwork in Ouaoue and Noumea in 2004,2005 and 2007, collecting linguistic data and recording vocabulary and texts while living with a Neku family. Some descriptive and socio-linguistic research was also carried out in Vanuatu, Bougainville Island, and West New Britain, PNG, by fellow-investigators. Translating a Tinrin dictionary and grammar from English into French is also in progress.Articles and books published, and papers presented at conferences during this project are listed in 11.

在这个研究项目中，我们调查了新喀里多尼亚及其周边地区的土著语言，目的是记录声音、文本和故事，描述语法，并编纂词典。具体地说，我们研究了新喀里多尼亚主岛南部使用的两种海洋语言Neku和Tinrin，除了官方语言法语外，在新喀里多尼亚主岛和洛亚尔群岛使用属于南岛语系海洋分支的28种土著语言。这些土著语言非常濒危，其中大多数只有不到1000名说话者。Neku和Tinrin只有大约200名说话者，直到最近才被研究得很少，Tinrin Grammar(OSumi 1995)是迄今为止唯一关于Tinrin语法的出版物。该项目所做的研究是对海洋语言学的重大贡献，除了揭示和描述新喀里多尼亚调查最少的语言之外，还提供了几个新的语言学发现，填补了比较语言学的空白。OSumi于2004年、2005年和2007年在瓦乌埃和努美岛进行了田野调查，收集了语言数据，并记录了词汇和文本，同时与Neku家庭生活在一起。调查人员还在瓦努阿图、布干维尔岛和巴布亚新几内亚新不列颠西部进行了一些描述性和社会语言研究。将Tinrin词典和语法从英语翻译成法语也在进行中。在该项目期间出版的文章和书籍以及在会议上提交的论文列于11。