Yuma Dictionary and Texts

尤马词典和文本

• 批准号: 9910654
• 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: Continuing grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-03-01 至 2004-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9910654&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Yuma; Dictionary; Texts

The purpose of this project is to continue the documentation of Yuma, the language of theQuechan Indians, spoken on the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation in Winterhaven, California. Itsimmediate goals are (i) to compile a dictionary of Yuma, and (ii) to translate and analyze a largebody of Yuma texts collected by A.M. Halpern in the 1970s.A dictionary of Yuma will fill a longstanding gap in the Yuman linguistic literature andprovide data for ongoing comparative Yuman and Hokan research as well as for research intospecific problems in Yuma phonology and morphology. As it will include data collected in the1930s, the 1970s, and at the turn of the 21st century, it will be a rich source of data on languagechange. A volume of analyzed texts will not only serve as a database for the study of Yumasyntax and discourse but also preserve a body of ethnographic and linguistic data that wouldotherwise be lost within a generation. Both volumes will be useful in typological and areallinguistic studies and in anthropological and ethnographic research.Beyond academia, a dictionary and volume of texts will be invaluable resources forteachers in Quechan schools and for tribe members interested in maintaining and strengtheninglanguage skills and cultural knowledge. When the language is no longer spoken, these volumeswill remain as a record of Quechan linguistic, literary, and cultural heritage.

这个项目的目的是继续记录尤马语，这是在加州温特黑文的尤马堡印第安人保留区使用的克钦印第安人的语言。 本书的目标是：（i）编纂一部尤马语词典;（ii）翻译和分析哈尔彭在20世纪70年代收集的大量尤马语文本。尤马语词典将填补尤马语言文献中的一个长期空白，并为正在进行的尤马语和霍坎语的比较研究以及尤马语语音学和形态学的具体问题的研究提供数据。由于它将包括20世纪30年代、70年代和21世纪初收集的数据，它将成为语言变化的丰富数据来源。 大量分析过的文本不仅可以作为研究Yumanese税收和话语的数据库，而且还可以保存一批民族志和语言学数据，否则这些数据将在一代人的时间内丢失。 这两本书将在类型学和区域语言学研究以及人类学和人种学研究中发挥作用。在学术界之外，一本词典和一本文本将是克切人学校教师和对保持和加强语言技能和文化知识感兴趣的部落成员的宝贵资源。 当语言不再被使用时，这些卷将作为Quechan语言，文学和文化遗产的记录。