The language of the Cherangany - living language, culture and contact in a colonial construct

该项目的目的是明确切兰加尼在不同领域的语法，并特别考虑到文化、感知和交流。在正在进行的项目中，对Cherangany的描述与对其他马拉克维特语言Endo、Kiptani和Almoo的共时和历时研究相结合。在过去的两年里，申请者对词法中广泛的多义词以及迷人的特定文化词汇有了新的见解。此外，调查还提供了不考虑语言意识形态和区域方面就不能充分描述的马拉克维特政治结构的证据。马拉克维特语群属于南尼罗的亚的卡伦金语，是一个殖民民族语言结构。它不是一个同质的语言群体，而是至少由两个不同的群体组成(Rottland 1982，Kipkorir 1985，Mietzner 2009)。因此，在这个项目的过程中，殖民地结构Marakwat被用语法、词汇、语义和类型学的比较方法进行了语言解构。如果项目扩大，将描述语言中以前只被略微考虑过的某些领域。在这方面，申请人有很好的社会学知识，并且有一名正在攻读社会研究博士学位的助理融入到项目中，这是非常有利的。Lüpke und Storch(2013)指出，说一种语言的人的行为和反应取决于他们的接触和他们所生活的环境。马拉克维特语言的比较研究提出了语言接触和接触区域的问题。由于对各种马拉克韦特语言、恩多语、切兰加尼语、阿尔莫语和基普塔尼语进行了这些研究，将在语言意识形态和区域领域进行进一步的比较研究。这些新的方面要求考虑到新的方法和理论观点，尽管语言的比较将继续是项目的重点。如果这项申请获得批准，对切尔兰加尼语的描述将发展为对切兰加尼语的描述，嵌入其社会语言学背景。

The aim of the project is to specify the Grammar of Cherangany in various fields with particular consideration of culture, perception and communication. In the ongoing project the description of Cherangany is combined with a synchronic and diachronic study of the other Marakwet languages, Endo, Kiptani and Almoo.In the last two years, the applicant gained new insights into the wide range of polysemies in the morphology, as well as into the fascinating culture-specific lexicon. Moreover, the investigations provide evidence of the political construct Marakwet which cannot be sufficiently described without considering the language ideology and areal aspects.Belonging to the Kalenjin languages which are part of Southern Nilotic, the Marakwet language group is a colonial ethnolinguistic construct. It does not display a homogenous language group but rather consists of at least two divergent groups (Rottland 1982, Kipkorir 1985, Mietzner 2009).Therefore in the course of this project the colonial construct Marakwet is linguistically deconstructed in a comparative approach to grammar, lexicon, semantics and typology.Provided that the project is extended, certain fields of the language will be described that have only marginally been considered before. In this respect it is of great advantage that the applicant has a good knowledge of sociology and that an assistant is integrated into the project who is doing his PhD in social studies.Lüpke und Storch (2013) point out that speakers of a language act and react due to the contact they have and due to the environment they live in. The comparative study of the Marakwet languages raise the question of language contact and contact areas. As a result of these studies that were undertaken on the various Marakwet languages, Endo, Cherangany, Almoo and Kiptani, further comparative studies in the field of language ideology and areality will be conducted. These new aspects require that new methodological and theoretical perspectives will be taken into account, although the comparison of the languages will continue to represent the focus of the project.If this application is approved, the description of the Cherangany language will develop into a description of the Cherangany language embedded in its sociolinguistic context.