Moro Language Project

摩罗语是一种科尔多凡语，在苏丹南科尔多凡州的努巴山上使用。科尔多凡语在语言学文献中很少受到关注，是非洲描述最少、受威胁最严重的语系之一。目前的项目旨在通过制作一本描述性语法、分析论文和一本专注于塞托戈维拉的词典来填补这一空白，塞托戈维拉是一种以前没有描述过的摩罗语。迄今为止的研究表明，Moro语中的许多现象对语言分析提出了耐人寻味的挑战，并为语法类型学和科尔多凡语与其他尼日尔-刚果语言之间的关系提供了新的数据。几个特别值得注意的现象是：(1)语调在Moro中的地位，这是语言中以前有争议的一个方面，被证明与构词和句子结构相互作用；(2)复杂的动词系统，展示了几种不同的标记语法主语和宾语的方法；以及(3)连接关系从句和疑问句的一组引人注目的性质。该项目涉及Moro社区的发言者、主要研究人员和研究生之间的密切合作，并将对非洲语言学作出持久的贡献。

Moro is a Kordofanian language spoken in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan in Sudan. Kordofanian languages have received little attention in the linguistics literature and constitute one of the most poorly described and threatened language families in Africa. The current project aims to fill this void by producing a descriptive grammar, analytical papers, and a dictionary focusing on Thetogovela, a previously undescribed dialect of Moro. Research to date reveals that many phenomena in Moro present intriguing challenges for linguistic analysis, and provide new data for grammatical typology and relationships between Kordofanian and other Niger-Congo languages. Several especially noteworthy phenomena are: (1) the status of tone in Moro, a previously disputed aspect of the language, which is shown to interact with word formation and sentence structure, (2) a complex verb system that displays several distinctive methods of marking grammatical subjects and objects, and (3) a striking set of properties connecting relative clauses and questions. The project involves close collaboration between speakers of the Moro community, the principal investigators and graduate students, and will make a lasting contribution to African linguistics.