Bole Language Grammar, Dictionary, and Texts

9905180SCHUHBole是尼日利亚东北部的约贝、贡贝和包奇州的一种语言，总共约有25万-30万人使用。它是查迪亚语系的一员，与其占主导地位的表亲豪萨语属于同一语系的主要分支，尽管从语言上讲，伯乐和豪萨语可能并不比英语和法语更接近。除了豪萨语，博勒是尼日利亚数十种查迪语中最大的语言之一，如果不是最大的话。这个项目的目的是制作一本关于伯乐的全面参考语法，一本有数千个条目的词典，以及一本包括民族志、历史、故事和诗歌/歌曲在内的文本集合。该项目产生的辅助材料将是一本词典和博乐人自己使用的文本集，以及记录博乐语言、文化和地区的录像带。《伯乐》特殊的类型学特征是：声调变化受语音、形态和句法条件的综合制约；广泛的叠合和重叠过程，有些是词汇化的，有些是产出性的；基本的SVO句法，它把大多数疑问和焦点成分留在原地，但后置构成疑问或焦点主语。乍得语言专家特别感兴趣的是博乐的详细语法和词汇记录，填补了与豪萨语最接近的语言亲属之间的空白。

9905180SCHUHBole is a language spoken in Yobe, Gombe, and Bauchi States of northeastern Nigeria by a total of about 250,000-300,000 people. It is a member of the Chadic Language family, and belongs to the same main sub-branch of that family as its massively dominant "cousin", Hausa, though linguistically Bole and Hausa are probably no more closely related than, say, English and French. Aside from Hausa, Bole is one of the largest, if not the largest Chadic language among the several dozen Chadic languages spoken in Nigeria. There are no monograph-length works of any kind on the language.The purpose of this project will be to produce a comprehensive reference grammar of Bole, a dictionary of several thousand entries, and a collection of texts including ethnography, history, tales, and poetry/song. Collateral materials arising from the project will be a dictionary and collection of texts usable by the Bole people themselves and videotapes which document the Bole language, culture, and region. Selected features of particular typological interest in Bole are tonal alternations conditioned by a combination of phonological, morphological, and syntactic conditions; extensive processes of gemination and reduplication, some lexicalized, some productive; and basic SVO syntax which leaves most questioned and focused constituents in situ but which postposes questioned or focused subjects. Detailed grammatical and lexical documentation of Bole will be of particular interest to Chadic language specialists by filling in a gap among the closest linguistic relatives to Hausa.