Doctoral Dissertation Research (DEL): Documentation of Southeastern Tepehuan: A Corpus of Annotated Texts

博士论文研究 (DEL)：特佩瓦东南部文献：注释文本语料库

• 批准号: 1065085
• 负责人: Nora England
• 金额: $ 1.18万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-03-15 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1065085&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; DEL; Documentation

This dissertation project will make an important contribution to ongoing efforts in the field of documenting endangered languages by providing high quality original documentation materials for Southeastern Tepehuan (SET). The project has the dual purpose of providing much needed documentation of naturally-occurring speech in Southeastern Tepehuan or O'odam and of contributing to the linguistic analysis of clause union in this language, one of the least described languages of the Tepiman branch of the Uto-Aztecan family. This research constitutes an important step in data gathering and analysis which will permit comparisons with other Uto-Aztecan and non-Uto-Aztecan languages. The fieldwork period comprises eight months in La Guajolota, Mezquital (Tobaatam) to document different types of communicative events. The project will concentrate on the linguistic annotations and text analysis. Outcomes include 1) a corpus of 15-20 hours of transcribed, annotated, and analyzed SET texts, including audio and video recordings 2) the establishment of an O'odam Documentation Language Committee that will guide, advise and integrate the community in the task of documenting the language, 3) the creation of pedagogical materials for promoting language education and revitalization which will advance the needs of the community by establishing an accessible record of the language and 4) the analysis of clause union in Southeastern Tepehuan in the co-PI's doctoral dissertation.The project outcomes will not only be of interest to the field of linguistics, but also to the fields of anthropology, archaeology, history, sociolinguistics and related fields by providing oral histories and local knowledge of the Tepehuans. The data, in addition to providing a deeper understanding of the language, can potentially be used to evaluate the models of migration and population of northern Mexico that have been proposed to date. The training of native Tepehuan speakers in language description, including methods and tools, will provide the skills necessary for local language documentation which will have an impact on both the acceptance and use of the resulting materials as well as improve the way people reflect on their own language. Additionally, the collected texts, as well the discussions of grammar, will be used to develop pedagogical grammars and materials in the local bilingual education programs.

本论文项目将通过为东南特佩胡安（SET）提供高质量的原始文献资料，为记录濒危语言领域的持续努力做出重要贡献。该项目有双重目的，提供急需的文件，自然发生的讲话在东南Tepehuan或O 'odam，并有助于语言分析的子句工会在这种语言中，最少描述的语言之一的Tepiman分支的Uto-Aztecan家庭。这项研究构成了数据收集和分析的重要一步，这将允许与其他Uto Aztecan和非Uto Aztecan语言进行比较。实地考察期间包括在Mezquital（Tobaatam）的La Guajolota进行的8个月，以记录不同类型的交流活动。该项目将集中在语言注释和文本分析。成果包括：1）一个15-20小时的转录、注释和分析SET文本的语料库，包括音频和视频记录; 2）建立一个O 'odam文档语言委员会，该委员会将指导、建议和整合社区完成文档语言的任务，第三章编写促进语言教育和振兴的教材，通过建立一个无障碍的该项目的研究成果不仅对语言学领域有意义，而且通过提供关于特佩胡安人的口述历史和当地知识，对人类学、考古学、历史学、社会语言学和相关领域也有意义。这些数据，除了提供对语言的更深入的理解外，还可以用于评估迄今为止提出的墨西哥北方移民和人口模型。对土著Tepehuan人进行语言描述培训，包括方法和工具，将提供当地语言文献所需的技能，这将对接受和使用所产生的材料产生影响，并改善人们对自己语言的思考方式。此外，收集的文本，以及语法的讨论，将用于开发教学语法和材料，在当地的双语教育计划。