Hiaki Grammar: Documentation, Analysis and Teaching

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。Hiaki（也被称为“Yaqui”和“Yoeme”）是一种濒危的Uto-Aztecan语言，在亚利桑那州南部和墨西哥索诺拉州使用。亚利桑那的Hiaki方言已经奄奄一息；70-80名母语使用者都是50岁或以上的人，而且不是作为第一语言来学习的。因此，它在美国非常接近灭绝。本项目将提供这种严重濒危语言的基本文件。与流利的母语人士和部落语言发展项目合作，该项目将(a)首次对三种不同寻常的语法过程进行深入描述和分析，(b)制定Hiaki教学语法草案，(c)创建一个网站，为部落成员和部落认可的学者提供访问经过注释和翻译的Hiaki数据库的机会，以及(d)为两名研究生提供语言培训。其中一人是部落成员，对自己的传统语言有着深深的承诺。除了发现更多关于Hiaki语法的目标之外，这个项目的一个主要重点是创建对Hiaki语言教师和学习者有用和可访问的语言语法描述。Hiaki的教学语法将包括与Hiaki文化、Hiaki神话、故事和历史事件相关的文本和练习，内容将按顺序排列，以便信息的进展与复杂的Hiaki文化日历的年周期相关。Hiaki文本和翻译的在线数据库将采用密码保护访问。通过与部落的合作，我们将为Hiaki语言学习者和学者协商明确定义和适当的访问级别。最后，该项目还为一名参加亚利桑那大学语言学系美洲原住民语言学硕士（NAMA）项目的Hiaki研究生提供支持和培训。这位学生的最终目标是振兴亚利桑那州的Hiaki市，他在生命的最后几年里一直致力于接受必要的培训，以成为这项努力的领导者。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Hiaki (also known as "Yaqui" and "Yoeme") is an endangered Uto-Aztecan language spoken in Southern Arizona and in Sonora Mexico. The Arizona dialect of Hiaki is moribund; its 70-80 native speakers are all fifty years of age or older, and it is not being learned as a first language. Consequently, it is very close to extinction in the United States. The present project will provide essential documentation of this severely endangered language. Working with fluent native speakers of the language and with the tribal Language Development program, this project will (a) provide the first in-depth description and analysis of three unusual grammatical processes, (b) produce a draft of a teaching grammar of Hiaki, (c) create a website to provide access to a database of glossed and translated Hiaki for tribal members and tribe-approved academics, and (d) provide linguistic training for two graduate students, one of whom is a tribal member with a deep commitment to his heritage language.In addition to the goal of discovering more about Hiaki grammar, a major emphasis of this project is to create grammatical descriptions of the language that are useful and accessible to Hiaki language teachers and learners. The teaching grammar of Hiaki will include texts and exercises relevant to Hiaki culture, Hiaki myths and stories and historical events, and content will be ordered so that the progression of information is correlated with the yearly cycle of the complex Hiaki cultural calendar. The online database of Hiaki text and translations will feature password-protected access. In collaboration with the tribe, we will negotiate clearly defined and appropriate levels of access for Hiaki language learners and academics. Finally, the project provides support and training for a Hiaki graduate student enrolled in the Native American Linguistics Masters (NAMA) program at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. The student's ultimate goal is the revitalization of Hiaki in Arizona, and he has dedicated the last few years of his life to getting the training necessary to be a leader in that effort.