Project Grant 2314344
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $391,927 to document the morphologically complex endangered language spoken by elders in a community where it is in contact with another indigenous language. The key objectives are to create a digital corpus capturing the naturalistic use of the endangered language by fluent elder speakers and to analyze the language's directional systems expressed...
- This $285,326 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program funds a 3-year community-driven documentation project focused on critically endangered, rarely studied, and infrequently documented languages. The project aims to produce transcribed and translated narratives in an open-access, permanently archived collection, develop a research-enriched, community-based interactive multimedia learning site, and conduct...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $449,534 to the University of Hawaii at Manoa to document endangered languages through training and capacity building in diaspora communities. The key products and services to be delivered include: 1) Producing richly annotated, multipurpose language documentation materials to serve as the foundation for grammatical studies; 2) Conducting targeted studies of...
- This $139,801 National Science Foundation project grant supports the University of Texas at Austin in documenting an endangered language variety spoken in rural villages. Over a two-year period ending June 2024, the university will interview native speakers to create a grammar of the traditional language and conduct detailed linguistic analysis. This work under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) aims to advance understanding of contact-driven linguistic...
- 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...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) provides $299,977 to Trustees of Indiana University to develop five new syntactically-annotated corpora of endangered languages. The project aims to build high-quality datasets and computational tools for analyzing the grammars of these languages, validating new techniques that can work with small datasets. The key products include: (1) five freely-available treebanks...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $160,000 in funding over two years to support an early career postdoctoral researcher's investigation of linguistic tone patterns and tonal evolution in a typologically unique target language. The goal is to document the diversity of dialects and their tone systems, analyze how the dialects have evolved and diverged, and collect data for in-depth...
- This $418,424 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure – NEH Documenting Endangered Languages program will fund the University of Oregon's project to collaboratively document an endangered indigenous language. The key products of this 3-year project include: 1) a crowdsourced digital quadrilingual dictionary created using the Living Dictionaries progressive web app, with...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences provides $449,712 to the University of Georgia Research Foundation to document and analyze endangered language varieties spoken in a linguistically diverse border region as part of the NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure - NEH Documenting Endangered Languages program (CFDA 47.075, Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences). The award period is from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025....
- The Endangered Language Fund, Inc. received a $251,929 project grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to develop an indigenous language database project. Through this three-year award ending in August 2026, the Endangered Language Fund will compile invaluable language resources for an endangered Native American language. These include a grammar, dictionary, collection of oral literature translated and analyzed, and...
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH: NOMINAL AND DEVERBAL MORPHOLOGY IN AN ENDANGERED LANGUAGE -THIS DOCTORAL DISSERTATION PROJECT INVESTIGATES THE GRAMMAR OF AN ENDANGERED LANGUAGE SPOKEN IN TWO INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES. IN AN ERA OF ACCELERATED LANGUAGE EXTINCTION, THIS PROJECT PRESENTS A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO DOCUMENT THE INTRICATE FEATURES OF A LANGUAGE THAT EXHIBITS SOME RELATIVELY RARE GRAMMATICAL PROPERTIES WHILE IT IS STILL ACTIVELY USED. THE PROJECT FOCUSES ON THE INTERFACE BETWEEN PHONOLOGY (THE SYSTEM OF SOUNDS) AND MORPHOLOGY (THE STRUCTURE OF WORDS), OFFERING INSIGHTS INTO THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LANGUAGE, CONTRIBUTING TO LINGUISTS' COLLECTIVE KNOWLEDGE OF LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY, AND ENHANCING SCIENTISTS' UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN LINGUISTIC CAPACITY. THE PROJECT SUPPORTS THE COMMUNITIES WITH TOOLS FOR LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION, CONTRIBUTING TO THE PRESERVATION AND REVITALIZATION OF THEIR LANGUAGE. IT ALSO AIDS IN THE CREATION OF PEDAGOGICAL RESOURCES FOR THE LANGUAGE, FACILITATING ITS FUTURE LEARNING AND USE. THE STUDY EXAMINES TYPOLOGICALLY RARE FEATURES OF THE LANGUAGE'S STRUCTURE, FOCUSING ON ITS NOMINAL DOMAIN ? AN AREA OF THE LANGUAGE THAT PERTAINS TO OBJECTS, PEOPLE, AND IDEAS. THIS RESEARCH WILL ILLUMINATE SPECIFIC LINGUISTIC PROCESSES TIED TO INDIVIDUAL ELEMENTS OF THE LANGUAGE, AND THE EXPRESSION OF PLURAL FORMS THROUGH UNUSUAL SOUND ALTERATIONS. THE PROJECT INVOLVES COLLECTING LINGUISTIC DATA DURING A FIELD TRIP TO COMMUNITIES WHERE THE LANGUAGE IS SPOKEN. THE FINDINGS CHALLENGE EXISTING THEORIES ABOUT HOW ELEMENTS OF LANGUAGE ARE REPRESENTED AND INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER, CONTRIBUTING TO A MORE COMPREHENSIVE UNDERSTANDING OF THE COMPLEXITIES OF HUMAN LANGUAGE SYSTEMS. THE COLLECTED DATA ARE MADE ACCESSIBLE TO THE GLOBAL RESEARCH COMMUNITY, SUPPORTING FURTHER STUDIES INTO LANGUAGE STRUCTURE AND DIVERSITY. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $19.3k | 7/18/23 |