This $391,927 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) supports a research project to document the directional systems and verb usage of an endangered indigenous language in contact with another minority language. The grant recipient, the Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY), will collect naturalistic data from elderly fluent speakers, create a digital corpus, and explore language contact and spatial cognition. The project aims to mitigate linguistic and cultural loss by preserving valuable knowledge from the endangered language community. This award reflects NSF's mission to advance fundamental scientific understanding and has been deemed meritorious based on intellectual merit and broader societal impacts. The project is scheduled for completion by October 31, 2027.
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