Detailed project information
| Title | : | Unpublished sources for the Amazonian languages of Brazil: The Natterer and Caspar language data collections |
| Applicant | : | Prof. dr. W.F.H. Adelaar |
| Research institute | : | Universiteit Leiden Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) Talen en Culturen van Indiaans Amerika |
| Location | : | Universiteit Leiden Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) Vergelijkende Taalwetenschappen |
| Duration | : | 09/01/2005 tot 02/10/2011 |
| Strategic goal | : | Infrastructuur |
| Finance | : | Eur 152.681 |
| Subsidy | : | Investment Subsidy NWO Medium |
Summary
The aim of this project is to transcribe and digitise two unpublished collections of language data concerning Amerindian languages of the Brazilian Amazon region. The first collection was brought together between 1822 and 1835 by the zoologist and explorer Johann Natterer (1787-1843). The second collection is part of the scientific legacy of the Swiss anthropologist Franz Caspar (1916-1977). Both data collections have been preserved in archives (partly private, partly public). They contain Amerindian language data with notes and glosses in German or Portuguese, preserved in a cursory hand-written form. By careful transcription and digitisation these materials can be made accessible and preserved for the future for linguists studying the native languages of the Amazonian region in their present state of development and survival.
Products
Bijdragen aan boeken
- prof.dr. W.F.H. Adelaar, A. Romero-Figueroa, A.V. Fernández Garay, A. Corbera Mori (2007). Ensayo de clasificación del katawixí dentro del conjunto harakmbut-katukina. in: Lenguas indígenas de América del Sur:. Caracas: . pp. 159-169. ISBN 978-980-244-513-4.
