Investigating the interaction of tone and syntax in the Bagime and the Dogon languages of Mali and Burkina Faso

拟议在马里和布基纳法索进行的实地研究将完成一个记录多贡语系（马里）所有语言的多年项目。这些语言特别有趣的是它们的音调句法系统，其中某些单词控制相邻单词的音调叠加。第二个有趣的特点是，动作动词，如“吃”和“携带”一贯表示包括指示的方式或过程的行为，而不是，如在英语中，功能或结果的行为。该项目还将完成Bangime（马里）的工作，这是一种孤立的语言。在邻国布基纳法索建立了第二个基地后，该项目还将对另外两种濒危语言Jalkunan（Mande族）和Tiefo（Gur族）进行初步记录，并将开始对第三种语言Seeku（Mande族）进行记录。除了参考语法（和附带的期刊文章），词汇和文本，该项目正在制作许多实践活动和文化活动的简单纪录片视频，正在绘制马里多贡/班盖姆及其邻近地区的1000个左右村庄，并正在开发当地动植物指南，包括科学鉴定，几种语言的土著名称和民族动物学信息。部分语法将通过传统渠道发布，收集到的大部分材料将在项目网站上传播。该奖项由NSF国际科学与工程办公室和濒危语言文献计划共同资助。

The proposed field research in Mali and Burkina Faso will complete a multi-year project documenting all languages of the Dogon family (Mali). These languages are especially interesting for their tonosyntactic systems, where certain words control tone overlays on adjacent words. A second feature of interest is that action verbs such as 'eat' and 'carry' are consistently expressed to include indication of manner or process of acting rather than, as in English, the function or result of acting. The project will also complete work on Bangime (Mali), a language isolate. Having established a second base in neighboring Burkina Faso, the project will also carry out primary documentation of two more endangered language, Jalkunan (Mande family) and Tiefo (Gur family), and will begin documentation of a third, Seeku (Mande). In addition to reference grammars (and spin-off journal articles), lexicons, and texts, the project is producing simple documentary videos of many practical activities and cultural events, is mapping the 1000 or so villages of the Dogon/Bangime and adjoining areas in Mali, and is developing guides to local flora-fauna including scientific identifications, native names in several languages, and ethnozoological information. Select grammars are being published through traditional venues and most of the materials collected will be disseminated on a project website.This award is co-funded by NSF's International Science and Engineering Office and the Documenting Endangered Langauges Program.