San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec: Dictionary, Grammar and Texts

该项目支持对墨西哥瓦哈卡州圣卢卡斯基亚文（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，因此面临最终灭绝的威胁。该项目将制作所有萨波特克语中最广泛的词典，以及文本收集和语言语法、形态学、音韵学和语音学的理论说明。像其他萨波特克语一样，圣卢卡斯基亚文萨波特克语（SLQZ）有一个不寻常的语音结构，有fortis/lenis辅音对比和一个复杂的音节模板。最多三个元音，分别指定为breath， creaky, check（声门音）或plain（模态音），可以出现在单个音节的“元音复合体”中；对比的声调模式似乎可以从元音复合体中的元音类型序列中预测出来。SLQZ动词表现出相当大的范式复杂性：例如，有6个基本的动词方面，这些方面可能会发生18种不同的人称、数和形式特征组合。这种语言有动词-主-宾的语序。数据将从洛杉矶和瓦哈卡的演讲者那里收集。项目第一年将重点研究SLQZ语音学和句法，特别是动词结构。第二年将解决SLQZ的语音问题，制定实现表面音的规则。字典和文本收集的工作将在整个项目中继续进行。这项资助的出版物将为一般语言学理论、研究不同萨波特坎语言之间的关系以及SLQZ人提供重要的资源。将以尽可能方便的格式编制结果，以便为为各级用户编写扫盲材料提供资源。

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.