Innovating Works

FFI2008-00240

Financiado
MICRO-VARIACION SINTACTICA EN VASCO: APROXIMACION TEORICA Y TIPOLOGICA
THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO STUDY THE RANGE AND NATURE OF SYNTACTIC MICRO-VARIATION OF PRESENT-DAY BASQUE, TO THIS END, WE WILL LAUNCH A SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF THE SYNTACTIC AND MORPHOSYNTACTIC VARIABLES IN THE LANGUAGE, AIMED AT A... THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO STUDY THE RANGE AND NATURE OF SYNTACTIC MICRO-VARIATION OF PRESENT-DAY BASQUE, TO THIS END, WE WILL LAUNCH A SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF THE SYNTACTIC AND MORPHOSYNTACTIC VARIABLES IN THE LANGUAGE, AIMED AT ACHIEVING THREE MAIN GOALS: (I) TO IDENTIFY AND THOROUGHLY DESCRIBE (MAINLY DIALECTAL BUT WITHOUT EXCLUDING SOCIOLINGUISTIC) SYNTACTIC AND MORPHOSYNTACTIC VARIABLES THAT ARE CENTRAL AND ROBUST IN PRESENT-DAY BASQUE; (II) TO EXPLORE THE RELEVANCE OF THOSE DATA FOR CURRENT TYPOLOGICAL AND (GENERATIVIST) THEORETICAL DISCUSSIONS ON THE UNIVERSAL PROPERTIES OF THE HUMAN LANGUAGE; AND (III) TO PREPARE, TEST AND EVALUATE DATA ELICITATION METHODS, IN ORDER TO SET THE METHODOLOGICAL GROUNDS FOR AN EXTENSIVE AND AMBITIOUS FIELDWORK TO BE CONDUCTED IN THE FUTURE IN THE WHOLE BASQUE SPEAKING AREA, TO RESTRICT THE SCOPE OF THIS PROJECT, IN THIS THREE-YEAR PERIOD WE WILL FOCUS OUR RESEARCH ON FIVE DEFINING DOMAINS OF THE LANGUAGE: AGREEMENT, CASE, DETERMINER PHRASE, EMBEDDING (CONTROL, RELATIVIZATION, COMPLEMENTIZER DOUBLING, AMONG OTHERS) AND WORD ORDER (FOCALIZATION, TOPICALIZATION AND SO ON),THIS RESEARCH WILL GREATLY CONTRIBUTE TO THE DESCRIPTION OF THE BASQUE LANGUAGE AND SPECIALLY TO THE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE TRADITIONAL ¿BUT LESSENING¿ LOCAL AND REGIONAL VARIETIES, YET, THE ORIGINALITY OF THE PROJECT LIES MAINLY IN THE FACT THAT IT ADDRESSES FOR THE FIRST TIME A SYSTEMATIC INQUIRY IN COMPARATIVE DIALECT SYNTAX IN THE BASQUE AREA, AND IT DOES SO ON SOLID TYPOLOGICAL AND SYNTAX-THEORETIC BASES, RATHER THAN ON PURELY DESCRIPTIVIST PREMISES, THUS, IT WILL BUILD A BRIDGE BETWEEN TRADITIONAL DIALECTAL (AND SOCIOLINGUISTIC) STUDIES, CONCERNED ON IDENTIFYING THE GEOGRAPHIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL DISTRIBUTION OF SYNTACTIC VARIABLES, AND THE MORE RECENT TYPOLOGICAL AND GENERATIVE APPROACHES TO SYNTACTIC MICRO-VARIATION, WHICH VIEW IT AS A WINDOW TO THE UNIVERSAL PROPERTIES OF THE HUMAN LANGUAGE, IN THIS RESPECT, WE EXPECT THE PATTERNS OF MICRO-VARIATION FOUND IN THIS RESEARCH TO BE FRUITFUL IN ADDRESSING CURRENT THEORETICAL CONCERNS ON THE NATURE AND ORGANIZATION OF HUMANS¿ INTERNAL GRAMMAR, ON THE METHODOLOGICAL SIDE, THE PROJECT WILL ALSO ENTER UNCHARTED TERRITORY, FOR, GIVEN OUR THEORETICAL PREMISES AND THE PECULIAR SOCIOLINGUISTIC CONFIGURATION OF THE BASQUE AREA, IT WILL DEMAND A HIGH DEGREE OF REFINEMENT AND ELABORATION IN THE FIELDWORK METHODS, THUS, OUR RESULTS WILL CERTAINLY PROVIDE ORIGINAL VIEWS ON DESCRIPTIVE, THEORETIC AND METHODOLOGICAL RESPECTS, AND WILL CONSTITUTE A REFERENCE FOR SIMILAR PROJECTS IN THE AREA OF MINORIZED LANGUAGES, THIS PROJECT IS PART OF A WIDER RESEARCH WORK BEING CARRIED OUT BY THE BASDISYN (BASQUE DIALECT SYNTAX) GROUP, ALSO COORDINATED BY BEATRIZ FERNANDEZ, THAT INCLUDES ADDITIONAL MEMBERS FROM A WIDER SPECTRUM OF RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS (U, PUBLICA NAVARRA, U, OF YORK (GREAT BRITAIN), MOREOVER, THE OVERALL PROJECT IS ALSO LINKED TO PARALLEL RESEARCH ENDEAVOURS THROUGHOUT EUROPE (ASIS ON ITALIAN DIALECTS, SCANDIASYN AND NORMS ON SCANDINAVIAN DIALECTS, FRED ON ENGLISH DIALECTS, CORDIAL-SIN ON PORTUGUESE DIALECTS, AND OTHERS), ALL OF WHICH SHARE THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS AND GOALS, AND MEET IN EDISYN (EUROPEAN DIALECT SYNTAX) UNDER THE DIRECTION OF SJEF BARBIERS (MEERTENS INSTITUUT, NETHERLANDS), micro-variación\variación\parámetros\teoría sintáctica\sintaxis dialectal\tipología ver más
01/01/2008
UPV
76K€
Perfil tecnológico estimado

Línea de financiación: concedida

El organismo AGENCIA ESTATAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN notifico la concesión del proyecto el día 2008-01-01
Presupuesto El presupuesto total del proyecto asciende a 76K€
Líder del proyecto
UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO/EUSKAL HERRIKO UNI... No se ha especificado una descripción o un objeto social para esta compañía.
Total investigadores 45