Yuma Dictionary and Texts

尤马词典和文本

• 批准号: 9728976
• 负责人: Amy Miller
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-03-01 至 2000-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9728976&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Yuma; Dictionary; Texts

This grant provides funds for research on Yuma, the language of the Quechan Indians. The project has two parts: (i) the translation and analysis of Yuma texts collected by A.M. Halpern in the 1970s, and (ii) the compilation of a dictionary of Yuma, which will involve supplementing an existing 3476-item database with data from Halpern's texts and with field work by the Principal Investigator. One result of this project will be a volume of texts with translations and analysis. This will be a useful database for the study of Yuma syntax and discourse, as well as an invaluable addition to the library of recorded Quechan literature. Another result of the project will be a dictionary of Yuma. This dictionary will fill a longstanding gap in the Yuman linguistic literature; it will also provide data for comparative purposes and, since it will represent the speech of three generations of speakers during a century of upheaval, it will provide a database for the study of language change.

这笔拨款为研究Quechan印第安人的语言Yuma提供了资金。该项目分为两个部分：(i)对A.M.收集的尤马语文本进行翻译和分析（ii）编写一本尤马语词典，这将涉及用来自哈尔彭文本的数据和首席研究员的实地工作来补充现有的3476项数据库。这个项目的一个结果将是翻译和分析的文本卷。这将是一个有用的数据库，研究尤马语的句法和话语，以及一个宝贵的补充，记录魁查文学图书馆。该项目的另一个成果将是一本尤马语词典。这本词典将填补豫曼语言文学长期以来的空白；它还将为比较目的提供数据，由于它将代表一个世纪动荡时期三代人的讲话，它将为研究语言变化提供一个数据库。