Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Grammar of Huambisa

该项目将制作一个全面的Huambisa语法，这是一种濒临灭绝的秘鲁吉瓦罗语，位于一个自然资源丰富的地区。Huambisa人被认为是具有强烈自由意识的凶猛战士，他们的语言和文化迄今成功地生存了下来，尽管过去和现在的外部压力寻求开发他们资源丰富的领土。尽管Jivaroan人位于安第斯山脉和亚马逊地区之间重要的地理和生态环境，但Huambisa语言之前几乎没有文献。这项研究是基于对说Huambisa语言的人的访谈和真实互动的语言分析。作为语法基础的信息将被组织到数据库中，专业地存档，并向普通公众和进行实地工作的社区提供。纪录片材料包括三种语言的Huambisa-西班牙语-英语词汇，分析文本和得出的数据，音频和视频记录，以及静态照片。语法以当前的语言学理论为基础，考虑了类型学、历时和语言接触的角度。在语法描述的基础上提出的一个主要问题是，Huambisa更像安第斯语言还是亚马逊语言，以及与其他语言的接触如何影响其历史发展。作为《万比萨》的第一部详细语法，该项目不仅对吉瓦罗语的研究做出了贡献，而且对安第斯和亚马逊语的研究也做出了贡献。由于语法揭示了Huambisa人的语言和文化实践(演讲策略、问候和不寻常的正式敬礼仪式，以及其他传统流派)，以及他们关于河流和森林的详细传统知识，以及他们与其他群体互动的历史，它对人类学、生物学、生态学、民族语言学和历史学等领域具有科学意义。该项目将培训以英语为母语的人进行记录和转录。它将与Huambisa村Boca Chinganaza的成员合作开展，并将帮助满足他们发展和促进其语言的明确需求。特别是，课文和词典材料将为今后为当地跨文化学校编写教学和扫盲材料提供基础。

This project will produce a comprehensive grammar of Huambisa, an endangered Jivaroan language of Peru, located in a region rich in natural resources. Known as fierce warriors with a strong sense of freedom, the Huambisa, their language and culture have so far managed to survive despite past and current external pressures that seek to exploit their resource-rich territory. Despite the fact that the Jivaroan peoples are located in an important geographical and ecological niche between the Andes and the Amazonian regions, the Huambisa language has received little prior documentation.The research is based on linguistic analysis of interviews and authentic interactions among Huambisa speakers. The information on which the grammar is based will be organized into databases, professionally archived and made available to the general public and the communities where the fieldwork takes place. The documentary material includes a trilingual Huambisa-Spanish-English vocabulary, analyzed texts and elicited data, audio and video recordings, and still photographs. The grammar is informed by current linguistic theory, taking into account typological, diachronic and language contact perspectives. A primary question addressed on the basis of the grammatical description is whether Huambisa is more like Andean or Amazonian languages, and how contact with other languages has affected its historical development. As the first detailed grammar of Huambisa, this project contributes both to research on Jivaroan languages and to Andean and Amazonian studies. As the grammar sheds light on linguistic and cultural practices of the Huambisa (oratory strategies, greeting and unusual formal salutation rituals, and other traditional genres), as well as on their detailed traditional knowledge of the rivers and forest, and their history of interactions with other groups, it is of scientific interest to anthropology, biology, ecology, ethnolinguistics and history, among other fields.The project will train native speakers in recording and transcribing. It will be carried out collaboratively with members of Boca Chinganaza, a Huambisa village, and it will help meet their expressed needs to develop and promote their language. In particular, the text and lexicographic materials will provide a basis for developing teaching and literacy materials for local intercultural schools in the future.