Datooga lexico-grammar of motion in a dialectological and historical perspective (DALGOM)

该项目旨在全面研究Datooga中运动的词汇语法编码，Datooga是坦桑尼亚南部尼罗河语系的一个研究不足的语言群，通过纳入来自具有跨语言罕见结构特性的语言的数据，例如相关运动的形态类别，即表示空间位移的平移运动。具体而言，本项目旨在解决五个迫切需要：（a）提供一个细粒度的分析Datooga运动动词，整合其词汇语义，其派生范围相对于-仍然很差和不充分的分析-系统的动词扩展，和他们的句法属性相对于分配的语义角色的参与者的句法槽;（B）丰富运动事件的语言编码的一般类型学，这种类型学普遍缺乏对非欧洲语言的深入分析，特别是来自使用语法化关联运动的罕见类别的语言（如Datooga）的输入;（c）探讨运动的语言编码的自然变异，在高度多样化的坦桑尼亚语中，（d）通过将当代数据与Paul Berger在1935年前后编纂的语言质量卓越的文本语料库中的历史数据进行比较，为研究Datooga在过去80年中的历时发展作出贡献;（e）通过系统地弥补所有结构层面的描述性差距和纠正不足之处，普遍推进Datooga语法的文献和分析，Datooga先前分析中的缺点和误解。由于目前坦桑尼亚达图加群体的社会政治边缘化的总体情况，这一项目的紧迫性进一步提高，其特点是语言加速从达图加转向南部库希特语，如达图夫语、坦桑尼亚当地班图语和国家官方语言斯瓦希里语。在过去的80年里，双语的延长期预计将揭示历时变化的词汇语法的运动的Datooga L1品种根据当地占主导地位的接触语言（S）。预计项目第一阶段将取得以下成果：一个完全转录，翻译和注释的文本和词汇数据库的语料库两个不同的Datooga品种，两个数据库的运动动词分类为他们的语义和形态句法属性的两个Datooga品种的调查加上一个大纲草图的突出方面的编码运动事件和两个博士学位的Datooga形态句法和/或语义学。

The project aims at a comprehensive study of the lexico-grammatical encoding of motion in Datooga, an under-researched Southern Nilotic language cluster in Tanzania, in order to improve the general understanding of the linguistic conceptualization of motion events in a broader typological perspective by inclusion of data from a language with cross-linguistically rare structural properties such as the morphological category of associated motion, i.e. translational motion indicating spatial displacement. In concrete terms, this project is meant to address five desiderata: (a) provide a fine-grained analysis of Datooga motion verbs which integrates their lexical semantics, their derivational scope with respect to the - still poorly and inadequately analyzed - system of verbal extensions, and their syntactic properties with respect to the assignment of semantic roles of participants to syntactic slots; (b) fertilize the general typology of the linguistic encoding of motion events which widely lacks profound analyses from Non-European languages and in particular input from languages which employ the rare category of grammaticalised associated motion such as Datooga; (c) explore the diatopic variation of the linguistic encoding of motion, in order to enhance the understanding of its diachronic dynamics under conditions of multilateral scenarios of language contact in the highly diversified Tanzanian Rift Valley Area of which all Datooga varieties forms a part; (d) contribute to the study of the diachronic development of Datooga over the past 80 years by comparing contemporary data with historical data from a text corpus of outstanding linguistic quality compiled by Paul Berger around 1935; (e) generally advance the documentation and analysis of Datooga grammar by systematically closing descriptive gaps on all structural levels and fixing inadequacies, shortcomings and misconceptions in prior analyses of Datooga. The urgency of this project is upgraded by the general situation of sociopolitical marginalization of Datooga groups in present day Tanzania, which is characterized by accelerated language shift away from Datooga towards Southern Cushitic languages such as Iraqw, local Tanzanian Bantu languages and the national official language Swahili. Extended periods of bilingualism over the past 80 years are expected to reveal diachronic changes in the lexico-grammar of motion of Datooga L1-varieties according to the locally dominant contact language(s). The following results are envisaged for the first phase of the project: a corpus of fully transcribed, translated and annotated texts and lexical data-bases of two different Datooga varieties, two data-bases of motion verbs classified for their semantic and morphosyntactic properties for the two Datooga varieties under investigation plus an outline sketch of salient aspects of the encoding of motion events and two PhDs on Datooga morphosyntax and / or semantics.