Award Abstract # 8818393
Documenting the Chiwere (Siouan) Language

NSF Org: BCS
Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences
Recipient: UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM
Initial Amendment Date: February 1, 1989
Latest Amendment Date: September 3, 1991
Award Number: 8818393
Award Instrument: Standard Grant
Program Manager: Paul G. Chapin
BCS
 Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences
SBE
 Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
Start Date: March 1, 1989
End Date: August 31, 1992 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $42,196.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $42,196.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 1989 = $30,196.00
FY 1990 = $4,000.00

FY 1991 = $8,000.00
History of Investigator:
  • N. Louanna Furbee (Principal Investigator)
    FurbeeL@missouri.edu
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: University of Missouri-Columbia
121 UNIVERSITY HALL
COLUMBIA
MO  US  65211-3020
(573)882-7560
Sponsor Congressional District: 03
Primary Place of Performance: DATA NOT AVAILABLE
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Congressional District:
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): SZPJL5ZRCLF4
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s): Linguistics,
CROSS-DIRECTORATE PROGRAMS
Primary Program Source:  
Program Reference Code(s): 9251
Program Element Code(s): 131100, 912000
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.075

ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT Chiwere is an endangered Siouan language, surviving today in the minds and speech of only about 40 Ioway and Otoe-Missouria Indians, all of whom are elderly. This project aims at preparation of a grammar and associated studies of Chiwere before the language dies, taking with it much of the expression and tradition of the culture for which it had been the framing element. The study goals are (1) to write a grammar of Chiwere, based on field work and archival materials; (2) to collect reminiscences and traditional narratives in Chiwere, as records of the past and as documents of the persistence of a culture; (3) to offer counsel to interested Chiwere speakers and tribal groups, as requested, on the preparation of teaching and dictionary materials; (4) to provide direction to papers on specific topics in language, culture, ethnohistory, and prehistory; and finally (5) to train and direct the work of several graduate students toward increasing the number of scholars concerned with Siouan languages. These goals will be achieved using standard structural linguistic field research methods, employing controlled elicitation of grammatical forms with careful transcription and analytic translation of a corpus of tape and video recorded texts.

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