Documentation of Haida morphosyntax

该项目旨在全面了解海达语，这是加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省西北海岸外的海达瓜伊（或夏洛特女王群岛）使用的第一民族语言之一。本项目以海达语的形态语法为研究重点，梳理了一些与及物性相关的动词素，如工具前缀、致使词缀等。它还重新审视了“多合成”一词是否适用于海达语，并得出结论，认为每个词的语素数量受到语义因素的限制，同时也受到当今说话者对分析表达的偏好而不是合成表达的限制，因此不应将海达语定性为“多合成”。

This project aims to gain a comprehensive understanding of the Haida language, one of the First Nations languages spoken in Haida Gwaii (or the Queen Charlotte Islands) off the northwest coast of British Columbia in Canada. The project, mainly focusing on the morphosyntax of Haida, clarifies some of the verbal elements which are relevant to transitivity such as instrumental prefixes and causative affixes. It also reexamines if the term “polysynthesis” can be applicable to Haida, and concludes that the language should not be characterized as polysynthetic in the proper sense of the term, based on the fact that the number of morphemes per word is constrained by semantic factors as well as by the present-day speakers’ preference for analytic expression to synthetic one.