Doctoral Dissertation Research: Language Contact and Change in J & K Burushaski

在安东尼伍德伯里博士的监督下，Sadaf Munshi女士将为她的博士论文在印度进行关于Burushaski的实地考察。本研究项目研究邻近语言克什米尔语和乌尔都语对印度查谟和克什米尔地区所讲的各种布鲁沙斯基语（JKB）的影响。这项研究将产生这种无证方言的语言描述; JKB语言社区的社会语言学描述;以及历史语言学分析，确定将JKB与巴基斯坦的Burushaski方言区分开来的借款和其他历史创新。它还将探索JKB保留其他地方丢失的早期Burushaski形式的特征的方式。本研究将以文本和语篇为中心，旨在加深对语言-文化-社会关系的理解。数据将以数字方式记录在录音和录像带上，以供分析和存档。通过提供一个存档的数据库，该项目将为语言学家和人类学家提供一个重要的语料库，供项目期间和之后进行分析。这是记录世界濒危语言多样性的更广泛努力的一部分，因为它是一种孤立的语言，也就是说，它与任何其他已知的语言或语系没有关系。该项目还将研究影响印度JKB至今的维护及其未来前景的社会因素。这有助于社会语言学家理解语言变化的一般过程，以及导致语言多样性丧失的具体情况。 最后，本研究所产生的文件和分析将有助于社区在语言保存和维护方面的努力。

Under the supervision of Dr. Anthony Woodbury, Ms. Sadaf Munshi will conduct fieldwork in India on Burushaski for her doctoral dissertation. This research project studies the influence of neighboring languages, Kashmiri and Urdu, on the variety of Burushaski (JKB) spoken in Jammu and Kashmir in India. The study will produce a linguistic description of this undocumented dialect; a sociolinguistic description of the JKB speech community; and a historical linguistic analysis identifying the borrowings and other historical innovations that distinguish JKB from the Burushaski dialects of Pakistan. It will also explore the ways in which JKB retains features from earlier forms of Burushaski that were lost elsewhere. The study will be done primarily from a text-and-discourse-centered approach which aims to deepen the understanding of the language-culture-society relationship.The data will be digitally recorded on audio- and videotapes for analysis and archiving. By providing an archived corpus of data, the project will provide linguists and anthropologists with a significant corpus for analysis both during and after the project term. It is part of a broader effort to document the world's endangered linguistic diversity, for which Burushaski holds special importance since it is a language isolate, that is, it is not provably related to any other known language or language family. The project will also study social factors that affect both the maintenance of JKB up to now in India, as well as its future prospects. This helps sociolinguists understand the general processes at work in language change, as well as the specific situations that lead to the loss of linguistic diversity. Finally, the documentation and analysis produced by this study will contribute to community efforts at language preservation and maintenance.