Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Reference Grammar of Wanano

这项研究得到了美国国家科学基金会国际科学与工程办公室的部分支持。在芭芭拉·福克斯博士和朱勒·戈麦斯·德·加西亚博士的指导下，克里斯汀·斯坦泽尔将为她的博士论文收集数据。她将对瓦纳诺语进行语言学研究，这是图卡诺语家族的一种语言，居住在亚马逊雨林西北部地区的大约1600人使用这种语言。瓦纳诺语是一种尚未完全描述的濒危语言。Stenzel女士与Wanano的实地考察工作将包括直接获取语言数据，转录口述历史和民间故事，以及记录日常对话。她将编写一份Wanano的参考语法，其中包括Wanano的音位、词法和句法特征。语法将考虑到每个领域的最新研究，并将Wanano置于跨语言的背景下。它还将概述瓦纳诺人目前的社会语言状况。语法将在基本语言理论的框架内编写，总体目标是提供有关该语言的准确信息，以便在各种理论框架内工作的研究人员可以找到它。这项研究对语言学的三个相互关联的领域具有重要意义：语言描述、语言理论和语言保存。首先，斯坦泽尔的研究将对一种濒临灭绝、描述不足的语言进行详细描述。由于Wanano所属的语言家族也没有得到充分的描述，本研究将揭示该家族中一些鲜为人知的结构，包括语调、证据标记和语序。其次，斯坦泽尔对文本和会话数据的分析将对从事跨语言比较的语言学家有用。尤其重要的是，大多数分析将基于会话数据，因为一些当前的语法理论表明，会话句法为语法的组织提供了一个新的窗口。最后，该项目将为说瓦纳诺语的社区提供一个被翻译成葡萄牙语并为非语言学家修改的语法版本。这种语法将加强瓦纳诺人保护其语言和文化遗产的努力。

This research is partially supported by the Office of International Science and Engineering of NSF. Under the direction of Dr. Barbara Fox and Dr. Jule Gomez de Garcia, Ms. Kristine Stenzel will collect data for her doctoral dissertation. She will conduct linguistic research on Wanano, a language of the Tucano language family spoken by approximately 1600 people living in the northwest region of the Amazon rainforest. Wanano is an endangered language that has yet to be fully described. Ms. Stenzel's fieldwork with the Wanano will involve direct elicitation of linguistic data, transcriptions of oral histories and folktales, as well as the recording of everyday conversations. She will produce a reference grammar of Wanano including features of Wanano phonology, morphology, and syntax. The grammar will take into account recent research in each of these areas and place Wanano in a cross-linguistic context. It will also overview the current sociolinguistic situation of the Wanano people. The grammar will be written within the framework of Basic Linguistic Theory with the overall goal of providing accurate information about the language so that researchers working within a variety of theoretical frameworks may find it accessible. This research is significant to three inter-related areas of linguistics: language description, linguistic theory, and language preservation. First, Ms. Stenzel's research will provide a detailed description of an endangered and underdescribed language. As the language family to which Wanano belongs is also underdescribed, this research will shed light on some of the poorly understood structures of the family, including tone, evidential marking, and word order. Second, Ms. Stenzel's analyses of textual and conversational data will be of use to linguists working on cross-linguistic comparisons. It is especially significant that most of the analyses will be based on conversational data, since some current grammatical theory suggests that conversational syntax provides a new window on the organization of grammar. Finally, this project will provide the community of Wanano speakers with a version of the grammar translated into Portuguese and modified for non-linguists. This grammar will enhance the Wananos' efforts to preserve their language and cultural heritage.