Barbareno Chumash Grammar

该项目的目标是为加州土著语言Barbareno Chumash准备一个清晰的、基于功能的参考语法。Barbareno Chumash可能是北美记录最好但鲜为人知的语言之一。现存数量巨大的手稿材料，其中大部分没有组织，大部分没有翻译，直到现在都让独自工作的学者们感到害怕。一个小组将整理材料，并将其输入计算机，使其能够通过一个协调程序进行排序。这样就有可能提取语料库中任何语素的所有实例，在上下文中，用直译和意译。每个参与者将研究语言的特定领域，并将结果提交给小组的其他成员讨论和修订。在项目的最后一年，这些研究将被纳入一个全面的语法。由于语言中复杂的动词形态对句法和语篇结构有着重要的影响，一个详细的、例证丰富的语法对语言学理论来说应该是特别重要的。由于Chumash对假设的Hokan语言的分配备受争议，这些数据的可访问性将是研究北美语言之间更深层次遗传关系的重要工具。该语法也应该为民族学家、民族生物学家、民族历史学家、历史学家和其他对丘马什感兴趣的人提供期待已久的资源。

ABSTRACT The goal of the project is to prepare a clear, functionally based reference grammar of Barbareno Chumash, a language indigenous to California. Barbareno Chumash is probably among the best documented but least known languages of North America. The enormous quantity of manuscript material that exists, most of it unorganized and much of it untranslated, has until now daunted scholars working alone. A group will organize the material and enter it into a computer in a form that can be sorted by a concordance program. It will then be possible to extract all instances of any morpheme in the corpus, in context, with literal and free translations. Each participant will research specific areas of the language and present results to the rest of the group for discussion and revision. During the final year of the project, the studies will be worked into a comprehensive grammar. Because of the elaborate verb morphology of the language, which has major ramifications for syntactic and discourse structure, a detailed, richly exemplified grammar should be of special importance to linguistic theory. Because of the much debated assignment of Chumash to the hypothesized Hokan stock of languages, accessibility of this data will be an important tool for work on deeper genetic relationships among North America languages. The grammar should also provide a long-awaited resource to ethnologists, ethnobiologists, ethnohistorians, historians, and others interested in the Chumash.