Kiowa Texts and Dictionary

本项目的目的是准备尽可能完整的基奥瓦语文献，基奥瓦语是一种濒临灭绝的美洲原住民语言。该文档将采用文本集和词典的形式，并将与已出版的基奥瓦语语法一起发布。这些文本将被翻译、语言分析，并对语法和文化兴趣点进行注释，范围从个人轶事到传统传说和母语书面通信。包括书面和口头材料，他们提供了丰富的例子，相互联系的基奥瓦语。该词典以实地工作和出版资料为基础，将使对Kiowa-Tanoan历史研究感兴趣的研究人员，以及那些探索音韵学和词汇结构共时性问题的研究人员，能够检查一种鲜为人知但在类型学上很有趣的美洲土著语言的数据。

ABSTRACT The purpose of this project is to prepare as complete documentation as possible of the Kiowa language, a Native American language that is not far from extinction. This documentation will take the form of a collection of texts and a dictionary, which will accompany the published grammar of Kiowa. The texts, which will be translated, linguistically analyzed, and annotated for grammatical and cultural points of interest, range from personal anecdotes to traditional legends and native language written correspondence. Including both written and spoken material, they provide rich exemplification of connected Kiowa discourse. The dictionary, based on field work and published sources, will enable researchers interested in historical work on Kiowa-Tanoan as well as those exploring synchronic questions of phonology and lexical structure to examine data from a little known but typologically interesting Native American language.