Projektnummer

0052521

Zusammenfassung

Beaver is a highly endangered language that is still spoken in several communities in two Western Canadian provinces, British Columbia and Alberta. Speaker age ranges from older than 45 to older than 70 in other communities. Besides trying to provide a good basic documentation of the hitherto undescribed language, the project follows an integrational approach: the central topic concerns the personal, historical, and mythical conceptualization of places and placenames. The ethnographic as well as the linguistic discovery processes relate to this topic and proceed from there to further ...