This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) award (CFDA 47.075) provides $170,000 over 2 years to support an early career researcher's investigation into language change and honorific systems. The project, conducted under the sponsorship of Prof. Eric W. Campbell at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will document and describe the rapidly shifting honorific system in an endangered language community. The research aims to advance theoretical understanding of linguistic honorification and explore how language loss impacts the use of honorifics in public domains. Key project deliverables include linguistic documentation and description, as well as training for younger community members in language documentation methods to support language revitalization efforts. The broader impacts of this project include preserving endangered language data, fostering intergenerational knowledge sharing, and empowering the community in documenting their own language.
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