Grammar of N|uu

乌乌语是一种高度濒危的霍伊萨语，南非只有10名老年人说这种语言。N|UU的语言学研究非常重要，因为除！XOO外，所有其他南部科伊桑语言都已经灭绝。在NSF的支持下，克里斯托弗·柯林斯教授将完成N|UU语法的初步版本。语法将与N|UU说话者的口头传统中的三个故事一起出版。纳米比亚大学的Levi Namaseb将使用该语法和三个故事来教N|UU儿童如何读、写和说他们的语言。N|UU的语法将描述极少数其他语言中存在的句法现象，这些现象对于理论语法学家和类型学家来说是至关重要的，他们有兴趣了解世界语言中存在的句法结构的范围。在更广泛的层面上，该项目试图将理论语言学的目标和方法与记录高度濒危语言的愿望结合起来，并在可能的情况下帮助振兴这些语言。

N|uu is a highly endangered Khoisan language spoken by only 10 elderly people in South Africa. The linguistic study of N|uu is extremely important because all other southern Khoisan languages, with the exception of !Xoo, have already died out. With NSF support, Prof. Christopher Collins will complete a preliminary version of the grammar of N|uu. The grammar will be published together with three stories from the oral tradition of the N|uu speakers. The grammar and three stories will be used by Levi Namaseb, of the University of Namibia, in teaching N|uu children how to read, write and speak their language. The grammar of N|uu will describe syntactic phenomena that exist in very few other languages, and which are of vital interest to theoretical syntacticians and typologists who are interested in understanding the range of syntactic structures found in the world's languages. On a broader level, this project attempts to integrate the goals and methods of theoretical linguistics with the desire to document highly endangered languages, and if possible, help to revitalize them.