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)所说的Zapotec语言的研究，这种语言正在逐渐失去说话者，因此面临最终灭绝的威胁。该项目将制作任何Zapotec语言中最广泛的词典，以及对该语言的句法、词法、音系学和语音学的文本集合和理论说明。与其他Zapotec语言一样，San Lucas Quiavin Zapotec(SLQZ)具有不同寻常的语音结构，具有Fortis/Lenis辅音对比和复杂的音节模板。在单音节的元音复合体中，最多可以出现三个元音，分别被指定为气息、吱吱、检查(声门)或平淡(模式)；根据元音复合体中元音类型的顺序，似乎可以预测出对比的声调模式。SLQZ动词表现出相当大的聚合复杂性：例如，有六个基本的动词方面，可以根据人称、数字和正式特征的18种不同组合而变化。这种语言有动词-主语-宾语的语序。数据将从洛杉矶和瓦哈卡的演讲者那里收集。该项目的第一年将专注于SLQZ语音学和句法，特别是动词结构。第二年将讨论SLQZ的语音，开发实现表面声调的规则。词典和文本收集工作将在整个项目期间继续进行。这笔赠款产生的出版物将为一般语言理论、研究不同扎波特克语言之间的关系以及SLQZ人提供重要的资源。结果将以尽可能容易获得的形式产生，以便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.