International Postdoctoral Fellows Program: Comparative Study of Cushitic Syntax

9505658 Gensler国际青年研究员和博士后研究员计划使美国科学家和工程师能够在国外进行三到二十四个月的研究。该计划的奖励为联合研究提供了机会，并利用独特或互补的设施、专业知识和国外的实验条件。该奖项将支持Orin D. Gensler博士进行为期12个月的博士后访问，与德国科隆大学非洲裔研究所的Bernd Heine教授一起工作。这个项目的目标是学习库希特语言和语言学，特别是在亚非和东非背景下的库希特语法。在Gensler之前的工作中，他收集了来自18种非洲语言的详细信息，在一个平衡的全大陆样本中，包括几种东非语言，其中一种是库希特语，阿法尔语。这些数据在纯粹的非洲背景下作为实地工作的类型学小型数据库是有用的。现在，他将以东非联盟成员的身份接近库希蒂。埃塞俄比亚语和库希特语之间的语言联系是一个地域和遗传因素的问题，这是无可争议的底层影响的典型例子。今年将为未来在东非的库希特语（或奥姆语系）的实地工作奠定基础，那里有许多未被描述或未被描述的语言，其中一些濒临灭绝。＊＊＊

9505658 Gensler The International Junior Investigator and Postdoctoral Fellows Program enables U.S. scientists and engineers to conduct three to twenty-four months of research abroad. The program's awards provide opportunities for joint research, and the use of unique or complementary facilities, expertise and experimental conditions abroad. This award will support a twelve-month postdoctoral research visit by Dr. Orin D. Gensler to work with Professor Bernd Heine at the Institut fur Afrikanistik at the Universitat zu Koln in Cologne, Germany. The goal of this project is to learn the Cushitic languages and linguistics, specifically Cushitic syntax in an Afroasiatic and East African context. This work will build on Gensler's previous work in which he assembled detailed information from 18 African languages, in a balanced continent-wide sample, including several East African languages, among them one Cushitic language, Afar. This data has been useful in a purely African context as a typological mini-database for areal work. Now he will approach Cushitic as a member of an East African Sprachbund. The linguistic link between Ethiopic and Cushitic is a matter of areal and genetic considerations which provide a classic example of undisputed substratal influence. This year will lay the ground work for future field work on a Cushitic (or Omotic) language in East Africa, where there are many ill-described or undescribed languages, some which are on the verge of extinction. ***