Old Tibetan Annals: A Comprehensive Text Grammar. Part II

计划中的研究项目涉及藏学特别是藏语语言学中代表性最低的领域之一，即有文献记载的最古老藏语的语法，以及一般有文献记载的最古老的藏缅语之一，即所谓的古藏语(7-10世纪)。拟议的研究项目被认为是填补藏文书面文献这一空白的第一步。该研究项目的主要目标是提供第一个全面的语法和词汇描述的古藏文文本，即旧藏族年鉴I(OTA-I；PT 1288和ITJ 750)。《旧藏历：综合语篇语法》项目。第二部分“建立在第一个项目的基础上。它的主要目的是阐述OT语法的元素(特别是句法和语篇)，鉴于拟议的动词形态和语义的重建，需要进行新的彻底检查。作为拟议研究的次要目标，对OTA-I和II词汇的词汇分析结果计划以开放获取在线词典的形式出版。此外，还将包括对OTA-I文本的形态句法注释，以及OTA-I&II的新译本(或8212/187)。研究项目基于多种方法的结合，主要来自文献学、类型学和历史语言学。语言学分析将集中在OTA-I的文本上，而对于语言考试，应另外利用迄今可用的OT文件的文本语料库。希望该项目能为今后对藏语和其他藏缅语进行深入的历史语言学分析奠定基础。它的结果被认为对语言发展的后期研究，特别是方言学的研究具有特别重要的意义。计划中的文本语法同样将加强我们对古藏语和现代语言之间发生的语法化过程和词汇变化的理解。

The planned research project addresses one of the most underrepresented fields in Tibetan Studies and particularly in Tibetan linguistics, namely the grammar of the oldest documented Tibetan language and one of the oldest documented Tibeto-Burman languages in general, the so-called Old Tibetan (7th - 10th century). The proposed research project is deemed to be the first step in filling this gap in the documentation of written Tibetan languages. The primary goal of the research project is to provide the first thorough grammatical and lexicological description of an Old Tibetan text, i.e. the Old Tibetan Annals I (OTA-I; PT 1288 & ITJ 750). The project “Old Tibetan Annals: A Comprehensive Text Grammar. Part II” builds upon the first project. Its main objective is to elaborate on elements of the OT grammar (concerning, in particular, syntax and discourse) that require a new thorough examination in view of the proposed reconstruction of the verb morphology and semantics.As a secondary objective of the proposed research the results of the lexicological analyses of the vocabulary of the OTA-I & II are planned to be published as an open access online dictionary. In addition, a morphosyntactic annotation of the text of the OTA-I, as well as a new translation of the OTA-I & II (Or.8212/187) are to be included.The research project is based on a combination of various methodological approaches, mainly from philology, typological studies, as well as historical linguistics. The philological analysis will concentrate on the very text of the OTA-I, whereas for the linguistic examination a text corpus of OT documents available to date shall additionally be made use of. It is hoped that the project creates a foundation on which deepened historical linguistic analyses of Tibetan but also other Tibeto-Burman languages could be based in the future. Its results are considered of particular importance for the study of the later phases of language development, especially for dialectology. The planned text grammar will likewise enhance our understanding of grammaticalisation processes and lexical changes that occurred between Old Tibetan and the modern languages.