| FN-271117-20 | Research Programs: Dynamic Language Infrastructure-Documenting Endangered Languages - Fellowships | Kristine S. Stenzel | Investigating interaction in two endangered East Tukano languages: Kotiria [gvc] and Wa'ikhana [pir] | 1/1/2021 - 4/30/2022 | $60,000.00 | Kristine | S. | Stenzel | | | | Regents of the University of Colorado, Boulder | Boulder | CO | 80303-1058 | USA | 2020 | | Dynamic Language Infrastructure-Documenting Endangered Languages - Fellowships | Research Programs | 60000 | 0 | 60000 | 0 | Analysis, annotation, and archiving of recordings of interactional dialogue among speakers of the Kotiria and Wa'ikhana languages from the northwestern Amazonian region.
This research will advance analysis of the data resulting from the NSF-DEL-funded project
Grammar and multilingual practices through the lens of everyday interaction in two endangered
languages in the East Tukano family. This successful project has produced an extensive documentary
corpus of everyday interaction and a set of sociolinguistic interviews involving members of the Kotiria
(or Wanano) and Wa'ikhana (or Piratapuyo) language communities in the multilingual
Vaupes region of northwestern Amazonia. This large
collection of primary linguistic and sociolinguistic data provides vital empirical input for more detailed
investigations of research questions related to (i) multilingual speech practices and language contact
phenomena; (ii) grammatical structures; and (iii) universal and language-particular properties of everyday
informal conversation. The proposed work during the fellowship will result in enhanced annotation of recordings (including
English translations, interlinear grammatical analysis, and interactional features) and collaborative
production of detailed transcripts from which collections of pertinent instances of structures and actions
can be drawn for a variety of planned publications. The project will additionally enhance the
documentation archive, deposited at ELAR, to make it more searchable and accessible, with all archival
materials open access. (Edited by staff) |