Doctoral Dissertation Research: Documentation and Description of Khinalug Language

这笔拨款支持Tamrika Khvtisiashvili博士论文的田野调查和研究，主题是Khinalug的语法，Khinalug是一种濒临灭绝的东北高加索语言，主要在阿塞拜疆山区的一个村庄使用。记录这种濒临灭绝的语言将为一种语言和一个语言家族提供新的数据，这些语言和语言家族位于一个地理上多样化和孤立的地区，有助于语言学理论的科学进步。Khinalug的描述性语法将在几个方面为语言学学术做出贡献，其中包括对未被研究过的不寻常结构特征的分析，以及对语言变化、语言接触和有争议的遗传关系研究所需的历史语言学分析的材料。这项研究将通过对母语人士进行录音和抄写以及编写教学和识字材料方面的培训而得到加强，并与之相结合，从而确保基纳卢格语言和文化的长期可持续性。语法将基于当前语言理论和语言类型学的语言分析。音韵学、形态学和句法将被分析并以世界各地的语言学家、当地社区成员、其他学者和感兴趣的非科学家都可以访问的格式呈现。社区的一些成员将参与实际研究，并为语言教学和学习编写语言维护/振兴材料。语言学家将受益于获得对语言学多个领域的进一步研究有价值的数据和分析；一般来说，非专业人士和公众都能从了解一个鲜为人知的、有着悠久而迷人的历史和语言的群体的历史和人类学信息中受益。

This grant supports the fieldwork and research for Tamrika Khvtisiashvili's doctoral dissertation on the grammar of Khinalug, an endangered Northeast Caucasian language which is spoken primarily in a single village in the mountains of Azerbaijan. Documentation of this endangered language will provide new data from a language and a language family that are very poorly known, situated in a geographically diverse and isolated area, data which contribute to the scientific advancement of linguistic theory. The descriptive grammar of Khinalug will contribute to linguistic scholarship in several ways, among them an analysis of unusual structural traits that have not been studied and materials for historical linguistics analysis, needed for the study of language change, language contact, and investigation of controversial proposals of genetic relationships. The research will be enhanced by and integrated with training of native speakers in recording and transcription and in development of teaching and literacy materials, which will in turn insure the long-range sustainability of Khinalug language and culture. The grammar will be based on linguistic analysis that is informed by current linguistic theory and language typology. The phonology, morphology, and syntax will be analyzed and presented in formats that are accessible to linguists worldwide, to members of the local community, and to other scholars and interested non-scientists. A number of members of the community will be involved in actual research and in developing language maintenance/revitalization materials for teaching and learning the language. Linguists will benefit by having access to data and analysis valuable for further research in a number of areas of linguistics; non-specialists and the public generally can benefit from having access to historical and anthropological information about a little known group with a long and fascinating history and their language.