San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec: Dictionary, Grammar and Texts

该项目支持对在墨西哥瓦哈卡的圣卢卡斯基亚文（以及洛杉矶地区的移民）使用的萨波特克语的研究，这种语言正在逐渐失去使用者，从而面临最终灭绝的威胁。该项目将产生最广泛的字典的任何萨波特克语言，沿着的文本收集和理论帐户的语言的语法，形态，音韵和语音。与其他萨波特克语言一样，圣卢卡斯基亚文萨波特克语（SLQZ）有着不寻常的语音结构，具有fortis/lenis辅音对比和复杂的音节模板。在一个音节的“元音复合体”中，最多可以出现三个元音，分别被指定为呼吸音（breathy）、吱吱声（creaky）、检查音（glottal）或普通音（plain）;从元音复合体中元音类型的顺序可以预测出对比鲜明的音调模式。SLQZ动词显示出相当大的聚合复杂性：例如，有六个基本的动词方面，这可能是十八个不同的人，数和形式特征的组合变化。该语言有动词-主语-宾语语序。将从洛杉矶和瓦哈卡的发言者那里收集数据。该项目的第一年将集中在SLQZ形态音位学和句法，特别是动词结构。第二年将解决SLQZ的语音学，制定规则，实现表面音。字典和文本收集工作将在整个项目中继续进行。 从赠款产生的出版物将提供一个重要的资源，一般语言学理论，为不同Zapotecan语言之间的关系的研究，并为SLQZ人。将以尽可能方便的形式产生结果，为编制供各级用户使用的扫盲材料提供资源。

This project supports study of the Zapotec language spoken in San Lucas Quiavin, Oaxaca, Mexico (and by immigrants to the Los Angeles area), a language that is gradually losing speakers and thus threatened with eventual extinction. The project will produce the most extensive dictionary of any Zapotec language, along with a text collection and theoretical accounts of the language's syntax, morphology, phonology, and phonetics. Like other Zapotec languages, San Lucas Quiavin Zapotec (SLQZ) has an unusual phonological structure, with fortis/lenis consonant contrasts and a complex syllable template. Up to three vowels, individually specified as breathy, creaky, checked (glottal), or plain (modal), may occur in the "vowel complex" of a single syllable; contrasting tone patterns appear to be predictable from the sequence of vowel types in a vowel complex. SLQZ verbs display considerable paradigmatic complexity: for example, there are six basic verbal aspects, which may be inflected for eighteen different combinations of person, number, and formality features. The language has verb- subject-object word order. Data will be collected from speakers both in Los Angeles and in Oaxaca. The first year of the project will focus on SLQZ morphophonology and syntax, especially verb structure. The second year will address the phonetics of SLQZ, developing rules for the realization of surface tone. Work on the dictionary and text collection will continue throughout the project. Publications resulting from the grant will provide an important resource for general linguistic theory, for the study of the relationships among the different Zapotecan languages, and for the SLQZ people. Results will be produced in as accessible a format as possible, to provide resources for the development of literacy materials for users at all levels.