Documentation and description of Chechen including the Cheberloi dialect
The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide to for the linguistic documentation of endangered language and knowledge. Grantees create multimedia collection of endangered languages. These collections are preserved and made freely available through the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR) housed at the library of SOAS University of London.
The goal of this project is twofold: (a) to complete a reference grammar of Chechen (of which 20% is already drafted), which will be submitted as a PhD dissertation at the University of Leipzig; (b) as the empirical basis of this, to collect, transcribe, annotate, and publish an audio- visual corpus of Chechen. The focus of the grammar is on morphology and morphosyntax, especially on hitherto unknown structures in the evidentiality/mirativity system. The focus of the corpus will be on the speech of monolingual speakers who preserve structures that disappeared from speech of younger generations due to influence of Russian.
Primary investigator: Zarina Molochieva
Project Details
Location: Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): University of Leipzig
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: £14,919.00
Commencement Date: 01/2003
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