DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH: The Basic Morpho-syntax of Yaitepec Chatino

博士论文研究：Yaitepec Chatino 的基本形态语法

• 批准号: 9900925
• 负责人: Philip Davis
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: William Marsh Rice University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-07-01 至 2001-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9900925&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DOCTORAL; DISSERTATION; RESEARCH; Basic; Morpho

9900925DavisThe main goal of this project is to complete an in-depth morpho-syntactic description of Yaitepec Chatino, a Zapotecan language spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico. In order to accomplish this, the secondary investigator will spend a total of 12 weeks during the coming year in Yaitepec, collecting data in the form of word lists, transcribed oral texts, and utterances of native speakers in response to questions asked in an interview setting designed to elicit specific kinds of grammatical structures. Two native speakers of Chatino are already transcribing texts, and will continue to do so. To some extent, they will also be involved in the analysis of grammatical patterns. The organization and analytical investigation of the data will be carried out both in the field and at Rice University, between field trips. Texts will be entered into computer databases to facilitate the analysis of the functions of particular morphemes and constructions.Yaitepec Chatino has received some attention by linguists during the past three decades, resulting in the publication of several articles, two word lists, and a book-length taxonomic syntactic description. The kind of in-depth functionalist description that will result from this project, however, does not yet exist for Chatino. As part of the data-gathering phase of the project, the secondary investigator, in collusion with native speaker consultants, will transcribe a number of narrations of folk stories and oral histories. This will result in a significant increase in the quantity and variety of literature in Chatino. In addition to collecting data for a work on the morpho-syntax of the language, the secondary investigator will continue to gather lexical items for inclusion in the dictionary of Yaitepec Chatino on which he worked for three summers as a project linguist with the Project for the Documentation of Meso-American Languages headed by Terrence Kaufman and John Justeson (NSF grant # SBR-9511713). The three works which will ultimately result from this project-a morpho-syntactic description, a collection of texts, and a dictionary-will be of immense value to the field of linguistics, and especially for the further study and documentation of Zapotecan languages, Chatino in particular.

9900925戴维斯这个项目的主要目标是完成一个深入的形态句法描述Yaitepec Chatino，在瓦哈卡，墨西哥说的Zapotecan语言。为了实现这一目标，第二研究员将在未来一年内在Yaitepec花费总共12周的时间，以单词列表的形式收集数据，转录的口头文本，以及母语人士在访谈中提出的问题，旨在引出特定类型的语法结构。两名以查蒂诺为母语的人已经在转录文本，并将继续这样做。在某种程度上，他们也会参与到语法模式的分析中。数据的组织和分析调查将在实地和赖斯大学进行，在实地考察之间。文本将被输入计算机数据库，以便于分析特定语素和结构的功能。Yaitepec Chatino在过去的三十年里受到了语言学家的关注，发表了几篇文章，两个单词列表，以及一本书长的分类句法描述。然而，这种深入的功能主义描述，将导致这个项目，尚不存在的查蒂诺。作为该项目数据收集阶段的一部分，第二调查员将与母语顾问合作，转录一些民间故事和口述历史的叙述。这将导致查蒂诺文学的数量和种类显著增加。除了为语言的形态句法工作收集数据外，二级研究员还将继续收集词汇项，以纳入Yaitepec Chatino的词典中，他作为项目语言学家与Terrence考夫曼和John Justeson领导的中美洲语言文献项目合作了三个夏天（NSF赠款# SBR-9511713）。这三个作品将最终导致从这个项目-一个形态句法描述，文本的集合，和一个字典-将是巨大的价值，语言学领域，特别是进一步研究和Zapotecan语言的文件，特别是Chatino。