Doctoral Dissertation: A Grammar of San Miguel Chimalapa Zoque

本项目的目标是描述和分析San Miguel Chimalapa Zoque(MIG Zoque)的语法。这是墨西哥瓦哈卡西南部的一种混合佐克语。该项目将是MIG Zoque的第一个详细记录，也是第一个对瓦哈卡州Zoque方言的语法进行研究的项目。项目工作包括在墨西哥进行为期12个月的研究，与以英语为母语的顾问合作确定语言的语法结构。为了研究米格·佐克的语篇结构，加强和指导直接启发过程，本文将对自然产生的各种演讲和叙事语篇进行录音、翻译和分析。该项目的结果将是学生调查员的博士论文。预计该项目将对以下方面具有重要意义：(A)记录和描述在所有社区中正在迅速被西班牙语取代的混合佐奎语言；(B)重建现代佐奎语言的祖先--表奥梅克语言的历史工作；(C)形态句法和句法方面的理论工作，提供有关这种语言在这些语法层面上存在许多有趣现象的最新和有用的数据；以及(D)通过上述方式促进对各种语言的研究，特别是那些在‘实地’研究并即将灭绝的语言。

The goal of this project is to describe and analyze the grammar of San Miguel Chimalapa Zoque (MIG Zoque). This is a Mixe-Zoquean language spoken in southwestern Oaxaca, Mexico. The project will be the first detailed documentation of MIG Zoque and the first study of the syntax of any of the Oaxacan Zoque dialects. Project work involves twelve months of study in Mexico, working with native speaker consultants to determine the grammatical structure of the language. Samples of naturally-occurring speech and narrative texts of various kinds will be recorded, translated, and analyzed in order to study the discourse structure of MIG Zoque and to enhance and guide the direct elicitation process. The result of the project will be the student investigator's doctoral dissertation. The project is expected to have significance for (a) the documentation and description of Mixe-Zoquean languages, which are rapidly being replaced by Spanish in all communities; (b) historical work in reconstructing epi-Olmec, an ancestor of the modern Zoquean languages; (c) theoretical work in morphosyntax and syntax, by providing current and usable data on a language with many interesting phenomena at these levels of the grammar; and (d) the promotion (via the foregoing) of research on a wide range of languages, especially those studied in the 'field' and faced with imminent extinction.