Reconstruction of the middle-marking morphology and its functions in Southern Chin

Zakaria博士在大坂大学开始工作后，于2021年2月与大卫彼得森博士（达特茅斯学院，美国）就Kuki-Chin语言的中间词进行了演讲。根据他们的谈话，他们一直在准备一篇论文，准备在期刊上发表。他们希望在2022年6月前完成这篇论文。由于冲突和全球疫情，他只能在2021年8月开始在Loktu进行远程实地考察。2021年5月至2021年7月，他做了关于中间体的文献综述。此外，他还撰写了两篇关于Hyow接触引起的变化的论文草稿。他在第二届印度东北-缅甸-中国西南地区语言和文化多样性研讨会上根据其中一份草稿做了特邀演讲。本文将于2023年发表在《亚洲语言和语言学杂志》的特刊上。他已将另一份论文草稿提交给一份学术期刊，目前正在审查中。从2021年8月到2022年3月，他能够记录18篇Loktu文本。他已经能够转录和翻译其中七篇文章。由于没有顾问，工作进展缓慢。到这个时候，他也能够引出一个包含Loktu中可能的中间动词的单词列表。此外，他还引出了洛克图语和萨姆图语的人称标记前缀和后缀范式。他还起草了一份东南部语言中动和动词干交替的草案。他希望在今年完成草案，并将其提交给《语言与语言学》杂志。

After starting his position at Osaka University, Dr. Zakaria presented a talk on middles in Kuki-Chin languages with Dr David Peterson (Dartmouth College, USA) in February 2021. Based on their talk, they have been preparing a paper to be published in a journal. They hope to finish the paper by June 2022. He was also able to work on a paper on middle marking in Hyow, which is in press.Due to the conflict and global pandemic, he could start the remote fieldwork in Loktu only in August 2021. From May 2021 to July 2021, he did literature review on middles. In addition, he was able to write two draft papers on contact-induced changes in Hyow. He presented an invited talk based on one of the draft papers to the 2nd Workshop on Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in the Northeast India-Myanmar-Southwest China region. This paper will appear in a special edition of Journal of Asian Languages and Linguistics in 2023. He has submitted the other draft paper to an academic journal and it is currently undergoing review.From August 2021 to March 2022, he was able to record 18 Loktu texts. He has been able to transcribe and translate seven of the texts. Due to unavailability of consultants, the work progressed slowly. By this time, he was also able to elicit a word list containing possible middle verbs in Loktu. In addition, he also elicited person-marking prefixal and suffixal paradigm in Loktu and Sumtu. he has also made a draft on middles and verb-stem alternations in Southeastern languages. He expects to finish the draft by this year and submit it to the journal Language and Linguistics.