Aretyry Kari'nja (Carib): Training Speech Community Members in Documentation, Description, and Materials Development

该项目使Gildea博士和俄勒冈州大学尤金的同事们能够对文献不足的Kari'nja（苏里南的一种濒危语言）进行新的文献工作。 研究人员提出了四项活动：（i）将Aretyry Kari'nja语社区的成员（苏里南）到俄勒冈州，在一个独立组织的语言研究所接受语言文献和振兴方面的培训，（ii）记录俄勒冈州的语言使用者，因为那里有高质量的录音设备，否则社区无法获得，㈢与在俄勒冈州接受培训的Kari'nja人合作，就文献不足的Kari' nja品种开展新的文献工作; ㈢为苏里南的Kari'nja社区举办培训讲习班，帮助他们开展文献工作。 这个项目所揭示的信息将加强对语言现象的科学理解，如韵律系统的类型学，工作类和作格性。 该项目还将为不易获得信息的语言和方言制作高质量的文件，并作为今后协作文件项目的典范，除了存档录音、教学材料以及重音和语法的学术分析外，该项目还为今后的生产力建设能力。那些受语言丧失影响最大的人，Kari'nja本身，已经积极参与记录，描述和振兴他们的祖先语言。该项目为他们提供了更多的工具和培训，他们将在赠款期结束后继续使用。该项目将Aretyry Kari'nja的文献资料推广到苏里南境内和境外的其他社区，并将使Konomeridos、Cornelis Kondre和Kalebas Kreek小组能够设计自己的文献资料项目。

This project allows Dr. Gildea and colleagues at the University of Oregon Eugene to conduct new documentary work on under-documented varieties of Kari'nja, an endangered language of Suriname. The researchers propose four activities: (i) bring members of the Aretyry Kari'nja-speaking community (of Suriname) to Oregon to receive training in language documentation and revitalization in the context of an independently-organized linguistic institute, (ii) record speakers of the language in Oregon where there is access to high-quality recording equipment not otherwise accessible to the community, (iii) conduct new documentary work on an under-documented varieties of Kari'nja in collaboration with Kari'nja speakers who received training in Oregon, and (iii) conduct training workshops for Kari'nja communities in Suriname to help them with their documentation efforts. The information uncovered by this project will enhance the scientific understanding of linguistic phenomena like typology of prosodic systems, work classes, and ergativity. The project will also produce high quality documentation of languages and dialects for which information is not easily accessible, and serves as a model for future collaborative documentation projects.Beyond archived recordings, pedagogical materials, and academic analyses of stress and grammar, this project builds the capacity for future productivity. Those most affected by their language loss, Kari'nja themselves, are already active participants in documentation, description, and revitalizing their ancestral language. This project gives them more tools and training, which they will continue using long after the grant period. This project expands the documentation of Aretyry Kari'nja to other communities within and beyond Suriname's borders, and will permit the Konomerume, Cornelis Kondre, and Kalebas Kreek teams to design their own documentation projects.