Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Descriptive Grammar of Hakhun Tangsa

小句的核心交际功能包括识别活动的参与者。识别“谁对谁做了什么”的信息量和类型因语言而异。在许多语言中，单词或词缀用来表示做动作的人的基本信息，即第一人称(我，我们)，第二人称，(你，你们所有人)，或第三人称(他，她，他们)。在印度东北部的哈浑唐萨语中，如果第三人称对第二个人称(他吻了你)或第二个人称对第一个人(你吻了我)做出动作，动词必须加上额外的信息，称为反转标记。Krishna Boro将使用反转标记和其他此类显著特征来确定Hakhun在由30多种语言组成的唐萨族中的位置，以及唐萨族在藏缅族Naga北部分支中的位置。南亚藏缅语有250多种，但其中许多语言还没有被系统地记录下来，因此这些语言的历史仍然不清楚。在俄勒冈大学的Scott DeLancey的指导下，自己也是藏缅语母语的Boro将制作一本全面的白云唐萨语的描述性语法。客浑语语法，加上录音和分析，将形成一个独特的资源，用于研究重建北部那迦语语言谱系的关键语法特征。该语法将成为客春社区实用的正字法和教材的基础。Krishana Boro还将对社区成员进行语言记录方法培训，以便他们在初级项目完成后能够在较难进入的地区继续进行语言记录。通过该项目创建的所有材料都将在濒危语言档案馆存档。

A core communicative function of the clause includes identifying the participants in an activity. The amount and type of information that identifies "who did what to whom" can vary from language to language. In many languages a word or affix is used to indicate basic information on the person doing the action, i.e., 1st person (I, we) 2nd person, (you, you all), or 3rd person (he, she, they). In the northeast Indian language Hakhun Tangsa, if 3rd person acts on a 2nd person (he kissed you) or a 2nd acts on 1st (you kissed me), additional information, called inverse marking, must be added to the verb. Inverse marking and other such distinctive features will be used by Krishna Boro to determine the place of Hakhun within the Tangsa family, which consists of over 30 languages, and the place of the Tangsa family within the Northern Naga branch of the Tibeto-Burman family. There are over 250 South Asian Tibeto-Burman languages but many of these are yet to be systematically documented and as a result the history of these languages remains unclear.Under the direction of Scott DeLancey of the University of Oregon, Boro, who is himself a native speaker of a Tibeto-Burman language, will produce a comprehensive descriptive grammar of Hakhun Tangsa. The Hakhun grammar along with recordings and analysis will form a unique resource for the study of key grammatical features for reconstructing the language lineage of the Northern Naga languages. The grammar will form the basis for a practical orthography and teaching materials for the Hakhun community. Krishana Boro will also train community members in language documentary methods so that they can continue language documentation in less accessible regions after the primary project is finished. All materials created through this project will be archived at the Endangered Languages Archive..