A study of language documentation for establishing a corpus system of endangered languages in Siberia

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370512
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Tsurumi University
• Principal Investigator: Ohya Kazushi 鶴見大学, 文学部, 教授 (80386911)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 言語ドキュメンテーション / 危機言語 / コリマ・ユカギール語 / イテリメン語 / セリクープ語 / データ変換 / 時間情報

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study is a synthetic research with practical and theoretical activities, which has been regarded as an ideal research style but hard to be implemented, but is now recognized as a new way of collaboration style in an academical community of Digital Humanities. As a practical activity, we engaged in fieldwork at Siberia, Russia, and implementing an experimental software for data conversion and sound data handling. As a theoretical activity, we sought an appropriate data format that ensures bi-directional reference between sound data and text data, and a way of data conversion. In addition to them, we scrutinized the format itself with information gathered from international conferences and activities of
international institutions, and checked a process of the language documentation itself.

Free Research Field

言語学 Digital Humanities