Guerrero Nahuatl Language Documentation and Lexicon Enrichment Project

格雷罗纳瓦特尔语言文档和词典丰富项目

• 批准号: 0504164
• 负责人: Jonathan Amith
• 金额: $ 29.99万
• 依托单位: Gettysburg College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-12-01 至 2009-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0504164&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Guerrero; Nahuatl; Language; Documentation; Lexicon

The Guerrero Nahuatl Language Documentation and Lexicon Enrichment Project (NLDLEP) pursues four concurrent goals: documentation, revitalization, description, and education. Documentation will be accomplished by providing audio and text (transcriptions that have been parsed and glossed by electronic means) for permanent archiving and Internet display in recommended formats. Revitalization will be advanced by training native speakers in language documentation techniques and producing books and CDs for use in community schools. Description will be enhanced by continuing to elaborate a lexicon and reference grammar as the documentation and revitalization efforts proceed. Education will be attended to by creating electronic and printed materials that can be used by both nonspeakers (learning a new language) and young native speakers (learning to write their language). After three years, the NLDLEP will have produced approximately 200 hours of recorded texts on a variety of topics (stories, ritual speech, dialogues, ethnozoological knowledge) of which about 90 hours will be selected for transcription and publication locally and on the Internet as part of the Nahuatl Learning Environment Encyclopedia. The present project is interdisciplinary both in its conception and presentation. The documented corpus will explore endangered domains of cultural knowledge of interest to a wide range of scholars: (1) linguists will benefit from the immense corpus of material of a typologically unique Nahuatl language and the careful including of coded fields in the lexicon that permit searches on topics of interest to current linguistic theory; (2) anthropologists will find use in the encyclopedic documentation of material culture production and use as well as testimonials on migration and itinerant commerce; (3) historians will welcome the new lexicographic information that will help them translate colonial Nahuatl documents; (4) botanists and zoologists will benefit from the floristic and faunistic inventories and scientific nomenclature linked to recorded texts of local knowledge; (5) students will benefit from material that will provide a basis for continuing education in this language in Latin American Title VI centers across the United States; (6) native speakers and communities will welcome ongoing access to their disappearing and threatened language and culture. Moreover, the electronic interface tools that this project will develop will be generic and thus be applicable to documentation, revitalization, description, and educational projects in other languages.

格雷罗纳瓦特尔语文献和词汇丰富项目（NLDLEP）追求四个并行目标：文献，振兴，描述和教育。将通过提供音频和文本（已通过电子手段解析和注释的译文）来完成文件编制工作，以便永久存档，并以建议的格式在互联网上显示。将通过培训母语使用者掌握语言文献技术和制作书籍和光盘供社区学校使用来促进振兴工作。随着文件编制和振兴工作的进行，将继续拟订词汇和参考语法，以加强说明。教育将通过制作电子和印刷材料来进行，这些材料可供非母语者（学习一门新语言）和年轻的母语者（学习书写自己的语言）使用。三年后，全国土著学习环境方案将制作约200小时的各种专题（故事、仪式演讲、对话、民族动物学知识）的录音文本，其中约90小时将在当地和互联网上转录和出版，作为纳瓦特尔学习环境百科全书的一部分。目前的项目是跨学科的概念和介绍。文献语料库将探索濒危领域的文化知识的兴趣，以广泛的学者：（1）语言学家将受益于庞大的语料库的材料，一个类型独特的纳瓦特尔语和小心包括编码领域的词汇，允许搜索的主题感兴趣的当前语言学理论;（2）人类学家将在有关物质文化生产和使用的古罗马文献以及关于移民和流动商业的证明中找到用处;（3）历史学家将欢迎新的词典信息，这将有助于他们翻译殖民时期的纳瓦特尔文件;（4）植物学家和动物学家将受益于与当地知识记录文本有关的植物区系和动物区系清单以及科学术语;（5）学生将受益于材料，这将提供在美国各地的拉丁美洲第六章中心继续教育这种语言的基础;（6）母语和社区将欢迎不断获得他们正在消失和受到威胁的语言和文化。此外，该项目将开发的电子接口工具将是通用的，因此适用于其他语文的文件编制、振兴、说明和教育项目。