DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Grammar of Laguna Keresan

本论文项目的目标是产生一个彻底的和可访问的参考语法的拉古纳克里桑语。拉古纳语是Keresan语族的七个成员之一，Keresan语族是一个孤立的语族，不知道与任何其他语族有关。尽管有这种特殊的地位，Keresan仍然是北美记录最不完整的家族之一，没有出版的字典或分析的文本集，自Miller（1965）以来没有全面的语法描述。这个项目将产生一个参考语法，在两个版本，这将填补这一空白的文献。第一个版本主要是为语言学家准备的，将提供拉古纳Keresan的音韵学，形态学，句法和话语结构的覆盖，以及拉古纳社区语言的当前社会语言学设置。它将考虑到最近在类型学和语法化方面的工作，并将把拉古纳语的语法现象放在一个跨语言的背景下。第一个版本将在最近被称为基础语言学理论的框架内编写，类似于其他研究人员的工作，如Dixon对斐济的研究和Foley对伊马斯的研究。我们的目标是提供语言信息，使研究人员能够在各种不同的理论框架下工作。第二版参考语法将专门为拉古纳·克里桑语的使用者、教师和学习者编写。它将取消第一版的许多技术术语和跨语言视角，而是专注于为外行读者描述语言的局限性，使用对他们来说易懂且有意义的术语和参考点。通过制作这两个版本，研究结果既可以提供给学术界，也可以提供给拉古纳部落的成员，他们为研究人员提供了研究他们语言的特权。

The goal of this dissertation project is to produce a thorough and accessible reference grammar of Laguna Keresan. Laguna is one of seven members of the Keresan language family, which is an isolate, not known to be related to any other language family. Despite this special status, Keresan remains one of the least well-documented families in North America, with no published dictionaries or analyzed text collections, and no full-scale grammatical description since Miller (1965).This project will produce a reference grammar, in two versions, which will address this gap in the literature. The first version is primarily intended for linguists, and will provide coverage of the phonology, morphology, syntax and discourse structures of Laguna Keresan, as well the current sociolinguistic setting of the language in the Laguna community. It will take into account recent work in typology and grammaticization, and will place the grammatical phenomena of Laguna in a cross-linguistic context. This first version will be written in the framework of what has recently come to be called Basic Linguistic Theory, similar to the work of other researchers such as Dixon on Fijian and Foley on Yimas. The goal is to provide information on the language in a way which is accessible to researchers working in a wide variety of different theoretical frameworks.The second version of the reference grammar will be written specifically for the speakers, teachers and learners of Laguna Keresan. It will do away with much of the technical jargon and cross-linguistic perspective of the first version, and instead focus on describing the strictures of the language for the lay audience, using terminology and points of reference which are understandable and meaningful to them. By producing these two versions, the results of the research are made available both to the academic community, as well as to the members of the Laguna tribe, who have afforded the researchers the privilege of working on their language.