| FN-279286-21 | Research Programs: Dynamic Language Infrastructure-Documenting Endangered Languages - Fellowships | Christopher Ryan Green | Documentation and description of Jarawan languages | 6/1/2021 - 8/31/2022 | $30,000.00 | Christopher | Ryan | Green | | | | Syracuse University | Syracuse | NY | 13244-0001 | USA | 2021 | Linguistics | Dynamic Language Infrastructure-Documenting Endangered Languages - Fellowships | Research Programs | 30000 | 0 | 30000 | 0 | Research leading to publication of a grammar sketch, a lexicon, and narratives of three undocumented Jarawan languages (Mbat, Galamkya, and Duguri), a group of African Bantu languages.
This proposal seeks funds to support full-time research on Jarawan languages over Summers 2021 and 2022. These languages are essentially undocumented and represent a gap in the linguistic record. What little is known suggests they occupy a place that is intermediate between Narrow Bantu and Southern Bantoid, a longstanding point of divergence in the Bantu expansion from West-Central Africa. The project will focus on data collection and analysis of three Jarawan languages - Mbat (iso:bau), Galamkya, and Duguri (iso:dbm) - and will produce a grammar sketch, lexicon, and narratives aimed both at elucidating their place in the classificatory record and at providing a foundation for their maintenance and preservation. Materials produced will be stored in the Endangered Language Archive (ELAR) |