A database for an understudied language: A dictionary, grammar, and texts with sound

该项目的目标是双重的。首先，该项目的重点是进一步发展一个联机数据库的基础设施，其中包括一本字典、一本语法书和一种濒危语言的文本。词典、语法和课文被认为是研究一种语言所需的基本材料，它们本身也涉及大量的研究。第二，该项目进一步发展数据库的内容，将以前无法获得的材料，特别是声音材料，加入数据库。该数据库将作为其他在线词典、语法和文本的模型。对于那些致力于了解语言家族内部结构以及语言如何随着时间的推移而发展的人来说，它也将是非常宝贵的，其中包含的录音允许研究实际语音，这是当今语言学中非常重要的一个领域。作为一种具有复杂动词结构的语言，该数据库也为其研究提供了丰富的材料，特别是与相关语言进行比较，以了解这种复杂性如何随时间和空间而变化。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The goals of this project are two-fold. First, the project focuses on further developing the infrastructure of an on-line database that includes a dictionary, a grammar, and texts of an endangered language. A dictionary, a grammar, and texts are considered to provide the basic material required for research on a language, and themselves involve considerable research. Second, the project further develops the content of the database, adding previously inaccessible materials, and in particular sound materials, to the database. This database will serve as a model for other on-line dictionaries, grammars, and texts. It will also be invaluable to those working on looking to understand the internal structure of the language family, and how the languages have developed over time, and the recordings included in it allow for the study of actual speech, an area of great importance in linguistics today. As a language from a family with complex verb structure, the database also provides rich material for its study, particularly in comparison with related languages, to understand how such complexities change over time and space. It also aids in the preservation of and access to materials that are irreplaceable today.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.