Corpus and lexicon development: Endangered genres of discourse and domains of cultural knowledge in Tu'un isavi (Mixtec) of Yoloxochitl, Guerrero

该项目将制作并使用大量的原始文件（超过100小时的数字录音和时间编码转录）来分析Yoloxóchitl米斯特克语（YM）的语音、音韵和形态语法，这是一种很少被研究的、孤立的米斯特克语动词开头语言，在墨西哥格雷罗沿海12公里半径内的四个村庄有1.5万人使用。mix - tecan语言复杂的语音和音系（浮动的音调，变调，以及在双音的音调承载单位上的音调序列的多样性）具有重要的理论意义。值得注意的是，YM在双音承载单元上有5个音调级别和18个序列。米斯特克语中的鼻音化也引起了人们极大的兴趣，在这里，YM也很不寻常，因为鼻音仅限于单词的最后音节。双音节词干的音节开头元音从来不是鼻音。最后，尽管声调语言中的重音本质是一个具有相当理论意义的复杂话题，但在米斯特克语的研究中，重音的声学却很少受到关注。这些以及其他关于YM语音学和音韵学的主题将由一个跨学科的研究团队进行研究，该团队包括一位拥有语言学硕士学位的母语人士和一个语音学家和音韵学家团队。和其他米斯特克语言一样，YM是动词的首字母，这是一种基本的词序序列，只在世界上大约10%的语言中出现。本项目将对这种不寻常的类型进行详细的形态句法研究，并解决具体的研究问题，如非基本语序的语用和话语含义。广泛的自然录音转录语料库和针对YM形态学和语法特定问题的启发材料的开发将为语言学研究提供异常丰富的材料。总之，这个项目将提供广泛的原始文献，并为未来的语言学研究建立分析基础，特别是在语音学、音韵学和形态语法方面，YM在类型学上很有兴趣。

This project will produce and use extensive primary documentation (over 100 hours of digital recordings and time-coded transcriptions) to analyze the phonetics, phonology, and morphosyntax of Yoloxóchitl Mixtec (YM), a little-studied, isolated Mixtecan verb-initial language spoken by 15,000 people in four villages within a 12 kilometer radius in coastal Guerrero, Mexico. The complex phonetics and phonology of Mixtecan languages (floating tones, sandhi, and the diversity of tonal sequences on the bimoraic tone-bearing-unit) is of significant theoretical interest. YM is noteworthy for its inventory of 5 tone levels and 18 sequences on the bimoraic tone bearing unit. Nasalization in Mixtecan languages has also attracted significant interest and here too YM is unusual in that nasal vowels are limited to word-final syllables. Syllable-initial vowels in disyllabic stems are never nasal. Finally, the acoustics of stress has received little attention in Mixtecan studies although the nature of stress in tonal languages is a complex topic of considerable theoretical concern. These and other topics in YM phonetics and phonology will be studied by an interdisciplinary research team, including a native speaker with a masters degree in linguistics and a team of phoneticians and phonologists.Like other Mixtecan languages, YM is verb initial, a basic word order sequence represented in only approximately ten percent of world languages. This project will provide a detailed morphosyntactical study of this unusual type and address specific research questions, such as the pragmatic and discourse implications of nonbasic word order. The development of both an extensive corpus of transcribed natural recordings and elicitation material targeting specific questions in YM morphology and syntax will provide an unusually rich set of materials for linguistic research. In sum, this project will provide extensive primary documentation and establish an analytical base for future linguistic studies, particularly in phonetics, phonology, and morphosyntax, areas in which YM is of typological interest.