Documentation of Two Endangered Munda Languages of India: Turi [trd] and Remo [bfw]

该项目提供了一年时间，对印度奥里萨邦总共不到3 000人的两种蒙达语进行实地记录。新的现场记录将补充PI已持有的遗留材料集。它们也将输入现有的蒙达比较词汇数据库。这些数据将支持各种研究目标，如重建原始蒙达，在各个领域的类型学研究，（例如，合并和复杂谓词的理论模型）。该项目的目标既包括微观层面（对记录的语音数据进行仔细的转录和数据驱动分析），也包括宏观层面（对可能揭示南亚语系演变和形态句法理论的大型类型学概括），该项目将提高对这些语言和使用这些语言的社区的认识。该项目将由印度兰契大学部落和区域语言系主办，它将使外国语言学家和印度学者聚集在一起，通过培训建立能力，提高这些濒危语言的声望，并对语言振兴工作产生积极影响，如果社区选择追求这些。该项目以资源、档案和知识转让的形式为当地机构和土著社区作出贡献。

This project provides for one year of field documentation of two Munda languages spoken in Orissa State, India, by a combined population of fewer than 3,000 people. The new field recordings will complement a collection of legacy materials already held by the PI. They will also be entered into an existing comparative lexical database of Munda. These data will support a variety of research goals such as the reconstruction of proto-Munda, typological studies in various domains, (e.g., theoretical models of incorporation and complex predicates). The goals are both micro-level (careful transcription and data-driven analysis of recorded speech data) and macro-level (large typological generalizations which may shed light on the evolution of the Austroasiatic language family and theories of morphosyntax).The project will raise awareness of these languages and the communities that speak them. The project will be hosted by the Department of Tribal and Regional Languages, Ranchi University, India It will bring foreign linguists and Indian scholars together to build capacity through training, enhancing the prestige of these endangered languages, and having a positive effect on language revitalization efforts, should the community choose to pursue these. The project contributes to both local institutions and the native communities in the form of resources, archiving, and knowledge transfer.