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

语料库和词汇发展：格雷罗州约洛索奇特尔的 Tuun isavi (Mixtec) 中濒临灭绝的话语流派和文化知识领域

• 批准号: 0966462
• 负责人: Jonathan Amith
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Gettysburg College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2018-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0966462&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corpus; lexicon; development; Endangered; genres

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.

该项目将制作并使用大量的原始文档（超过 100 小时的数字录音和时间编码转录）来分析 Yoloxóchitl Mixtec (YM) 的语音学、音韵学和形态句法。Yoloxóchitl Mixtec (YM) 是一种很少被研究的、孤立的 Mixtecan 动词开头语言，由墨西哥格雷罗州沿海 12 公里半径范围内四个村庄的 15,000 人使用。米斯特克语言的复杂语音学和音韵学（浮调、连读和双摩拉音调单元上的音调序列的多样性）具有重要的理论意义。 YM 因其双壁音调承载单元上的 5 个音调级别和 18 个序列的库存而值得注意。 Mixtecan 语言中的鼻化也引起了人们的极大兴趣，而 YM 在这里也很不寻常，因为鼻元音仅限于词尾音节。双音节词干中的音节声母绝不会是鼻音。最后，尽管声调语言中重音的性质是一个颇受理论关注的复杂话题，但重音的声学在米斯特卡研究中很少受到关注。 YM 语音学和音系学中的这些主题和其他主题将由一个跨学科研究团队进行研究，其中包括一名拥有语言学硕士学位的母语人士以及一组语音学家和音系学家。与其他米斯特克语言一样，YM 是动词首字母，是一种基本词序序列，仅在大约百分之十的世界语言中出现。该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，例如非基本词序的语用和话语含义。开发一个广泛的转录自然记录语料库和针对 YM 形态和句法中特定问题的启发材料将为语言研究提供异常丰富的材料。 总之，该项目将为未来的语言学研究提供广泛的主要文献，并建立分析基础，特别是在语音学、音系学和形态句法方面，YM 在这些领域具有类型学兴趣。