Documentation and description of Paresi-Haliti (Arawak): a grammar and text collection
The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide for the documentation of endangered languages and knowledge. Grantees create audiovisual collections with transcription and translations of endangered languages and practices. These collections are preserved and made freely available through the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR).
Project Summary: The goals of the project are to advance the linguistic understanding of Paresi, and to provide urgent documentation of the Paresi language and culture by organizing an archive with naturally occurring discourse, and by providing a reference grammar. The Paresi people, who number approximately 2000, live in the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil. The texts will be collected in four communities: Bacaval, Formoso, Nova Esperança, and Rio Verde, and they will be organized in the form of a book; community members will be trained in documentation. The data collected will be the basis of my doctoral dissertation, a reference grammar of Paresi.
Primary investigator: Ana Paula Brandão
Project Details
Location: Brazil, South America, Brazil, Americas, United States of America
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): University of Texas at Austin
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: £24,007.00
Commencement Date: 01/2008
Project Status: Completed
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