Grammar of the Nebaj Dialect of the Ixil Maya Language [ISO 639 ixi]

标准的面试技巧往往不能记录一门语言中使用的所有语法手段。虽然独白和语言采访对于记录一门语言是必不可少的，但它们无法捕捉到面对面互动的细微差别，特别是不同社会地位的人之间的互动。在国家科学基金会的支持下，Jule Gomez de Garcia博士(加州州立大学圣马科斯分校)将指导一个语言学家团队，他们将与讲Ixil玛雅语的人合作，基于Ixil对话和叙事语料库，编制一种新的、独特的完整的Nebaj方言参考语法。该语法将对一系列语篇语境中使用的语言进行全面描述，包括会议、男女互动、口述历史和讲故事。Ixil讲话者将参与记录过程的所有阶段，获得音频和视频记录、转录、数据处理以及构建基于网络的词典和文本数据库的技能，团队将从这些词典和文本数据库中提取语法。语法将为玛雅语言的学术研究人员提供急需的参考。这些材料还将服务于演讲者社区，他们将利用这些材料编写材料，以加强成人和儿童扫盲项目。该项目将使讲Ixil的人有机会分享他们的语言的记录和保存，同时介绍和保存他们在危地马拉内战后的生存故事。他们愿意分享的细节的亲密性将使这份文件成为现代玛雅人忍耐力的独特历史记录。因此，这项研究将使学者和更广泛的公众受益，使他们有机会更好地了解当代伊克西尔玛雅社会，进而了解整个半球处于类似情况的其他民族。

Standard interview techniques often cannot record the full range of grammatical devices used in a language. While monologues and linguistic interviews are essential to documenting a language, they fail to capture nuances of face-to-face interactions, particularly between people of different social statuses. With support from the National Science Foundation, Dr. Jule Gomez de Garcia (California State University, San Marcos) will direct a team of linguists who will work in collaboration with Ixil Maya speakers to produce a new and uniquely complete reference grammar of the Nebaj dialect of the language, based on a corpus of spontaneous Ixil conversations and narratives. The grammar will present a thorough description of the language as used in a range of discourse contexts including meetings, male-female interactions, oral histories, and storytelling. The Ixil speakers will participate in all stages of the documentation process, gaining skills in audio and video recording, transcription, data processing, and construction of the web-based dictionary and text databases from which the team will derive the grammar.The grammar will provide a much-needed reference for academic researchers of Mayan languages. The materials also will serve the community of speakers who will use it to develop materials to enhance adult and child literacy projects. The project will afford Ixil speakers the opportunity to share in the documentation and preservation of their language, and, at the same time, to present and preserve their stories of survival in the aftermath of the Guatemalan Civil War. The intimacy of detail they have been willing to share will make this documentation a unique historical record of the endurance of a modern-day Mayan population. Thus the research will benefit both scholars and the wider public, by giving them an opportunity to better understand contemporary Ixil Maya society and, by extension, other peoples in similar situations throughout the hemisphere.