Doctoral Dissertation Research: Linguistic Analysis of Desano [ISO 639 des]

亚马逊上游的几种图卡诺语处于高度濒危状态。东图卡诺人以其语言外婚制和“强制性”多语种而闻名；该地区约有20种语言，其使用者必须与说不同语言的人结婚。在这个由国家科学基金会资助的论文项目中，犹他大学的威尔逊·席尔瓦将对巴西沃佩斯地区濒危的图卡诺语德萨诺进行语言描述和分析。在莱尔·坎贝尔博士的指导下，主要目标是为德萨诺编写一份详细的语法，突出德萨诺的一些普遍语言学家特别感兴趣的语言特征。这包括：鼻音和谐(音韵学)、名词量词系统(词法)、证据系统(词法/句法/语义界面)。需要这种语言的文件记录，不仅是印刷形式，而且还有音频和视听记录。图卡诺语的比较、历史和类型学分析目前还不发达，如果没有这里正在进行的那种文件，未来的语言学家将无法获得。这个项目将提供关于德萨诺语的全面描述和文件，德萨诺语是最濒危的图卡诺语之一，以前只有很少的文件记录。结果将向语言学家、社区成员和公众公布。该项目还通过提供基本实用语法和故事和故事集，为说这种语言的社区做出贡献，这些故事和故事将用于语言振兴方案(特别是在学校)。该项目将促进一项平行计划，培训教师和社区研究人员教授这种语言，编写用这种语言编写的教学材料，并收集和保存这种语言及其相关的口头传统。这一结果将在很大程度上有助于普通语言学研究，因为对上述特征的准确解释对语言学理论具有相当大的兴趣。巴西的土著社区和语言学家将受益于计划出版的葡萄牙语版本的论文，这可能成为未来图卡诺研究的典范。

Several of the Tukanoan languages in the upper Amazon are highly endangered. The Eastern Tukanoan people are famous for their linguistic exogamy and 'obligatory' multilingualism; there are some 20 languages in the region whose speakers must marry someone who speaks a different language. In this dissertation project, funded by the National Science Foundation, Wilson Silva of the University of Utah will undertake a linguistic description and analysis of Desano, an endangered Tukanoan language of the Vaupes Region of Brazil. Under the supervision of Dr. Lyle Campbell, the primary goal is a detailed grammar for Desano that will highlight a number of linguistic traits in Desano of particular interest to linguists in general. These include: nasal harmony (in phonology), the noun classifier system (in morphology), and the evidential system (in the interface of morphology/syntax/semantics). There is a need for documentation of this language, not only in printed form, but also audio and audiovisual recordings. The comparative, historical and typological analysis of the Tukanoan languages is currently underdeveloped, and will not be available to future linguists without the kind of documentation being undertaken here.This project will provide a comprehensive description and documentation of Desano, one of the most endangered Tukanoan languages, which has been only poorly documented before. The results will be made available to linguists, community members, and the public. The project also contributes to the communities where the language is spoken by providing a basic practical grammar and a collect of tales and stories, which will be used in language revitalization programs (particularly in the schools). The project will contribute to a parallel program to train teachers and community researchers for teaching the language and preparing pedagogical materials in the language, and for collecting and preserving the language and associated oral traditions. The results will contribute to general linguistic scholarship in significant ways, since accurate accounts of the traits mentioned are of considerable interest for linguistic theory. The indigenous community and linguists in Brazil will benefit from the planned publication of a Portuguese version of the dissertation, which may serve as a model for future Tukanoan studies.