Doctoral Dissertation Research: Grammar of Kurripako-Ehe Dialect

在简·希尔博士的指导下，Tania Granadillo女士将为她的博士论文收集和分析语言学数据。她的研究涉及库里帕科的EHE方言，库里帕科是委内瑞拉一种濒危的阿拉瓦坎语，大约有2000人说这种语言。将使用两种主要方法收集数据：通过与母语人士的访谈直接引出单词和句子，以及对自然产生的语音进行录音。所收集的文本将被选为代表目前使用EHE的各种社会和文化背景。在这些材料的基础上，格拉纳迪罗将描述和分析语言的词汇、语音和语法特征。由此产生的语法描述将针对包括社会语言学家和人类学家在内的科学受众。但开发教学材料的教师将可以访问它们。这些录音将构成一个声音档案，提供EHE语言及其使用的文件记录。语法和档案的副本将留给EHE社区，预计将有助于社区领导人制定修订后的实用方言拼写法的计划，并制作材料向子孙后代教授他们的语言。

Under the direction of Dr. Jane Hill, Ms. Tania Granadillo will collect and analyze linguistic data for her doctoral dissertation. Her research concerns the Ehe dialect of Kurripako, an endangered Arawakan language spoken in Venezuela with approximately 2,000 speakers. Two main methods will be used to collect data: direct elicitation of words and sentences through interviews with native speakers, and audio-recording of naturally occurring speech. The texts collected will be chosen to represent a variety of the social and cultural contexts in which Ehe is currently being used. On the basis of this material, Granadillo will describe and analyze the lexical, phonological and grammatical features of the language.The resulting grammatical descriptions will be aimed at a scientific audience, including sociolinguists and anthropologists. But they will be accessible to teachers developing pedagogical materials. The recordings will constitute a sound archive that will provide a documentary record of the Ehe language and its use. Copies of both the grammar and the archive will be left with the Ehe community and are expected to contribute to plans by community leaders to develop a revised practical orthography of the dialect, and produce materials to teach their language to future generations.