Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Descriptive Grammar of Karbi

Karbi是一种藏缅语（TB），大约有50万人使用，位于印度东北部阿萨姆邦的Karbi Anglong地区。它在结核病家族中的遗传关系尚不清楚。先前的治疗提供了有关语言的信息；然而，对于类型学家来说，了解世界语言和语系之间的共性和差异，需要详细的文献和语法分析作为比较资源。迄今为止，数百种结核病语言中的大多数仍未得到充分描述或描述不足。该项目支持在Karbi Anglong的实地工作，并关注收集和分析反映该语言在社区日常生活中实际使用情况的自然数据。该项目的执行是基于俄勒冈大学语言学家和Karbi Lammet Amei （Karbi文学协会）之间的紧密合作。联合倡议将培训社区成员帮助进行数据收集和分析。该项目将产生一种现代的、详细的描述性语法，通过研究与其他结核病语言的遗传关系，该语法也将有助于了解卡尔比文化和文化知识，以及印度东北部的历史。该项目的合作基础将创造一个语言学家-社区互动的创新模式，这不仅从伦理角度来看是可取的，而且通过培训社区成员帮助记录和分析口头文本，有助于积累更多的数据和更自然的数据。技术语言语法将是教学语法的先决条件，这将有助于加强卡尔比语的地位，并可能加强该地区其他少数民族语言的地位。

Karbi is a Tibeto-Burman (TB) language spoken by about half a million speakers located in the Karbi Anglong District of Assam, Northeast India. Its genetic affiliation within the TB family has remained unclear. Previous treatments provide information on the language; however, a detailed documentation and grammatical analysis is needed as a comparative resource for typologists, who seek to understand commonalities and differences between languages and language families of the world. Most of the several hundreds of TB languages have remained un- or under-described to the present day. This project supports fieldwork in Karbi Anglong, and is concerned with the collection and analysis of naturalistic data reflecting how the language is actually spoken in the everyday life of the community. The execution of the project is based on strong collaboration between linguists from the University of Oregon and the Karbi Lammet Amei (Karbi Literary Association). The co-PI will train community members to help with data collection and analysis. This project will produce a modern, detailed descriptive grammar that will also contribute to the understanding of Karbi culture and cultural knowledge, and of the history of Northeast India by working out genetic relationships to other TB languages. The collaborative foundation of the project will create an innovative model of linguist-community interaction, which is not only preferable from an ethical standpoint but also has the important advantage to help accumulate more data and more naturalistic data by training community members to help with recording and analysis of oral texts. A technical linguistic grammar will be the prerequisite for a pedagogical grammar that will help strengthen the status of Karbi, and potentially other minority languages in the area.