Doctoral Dissertation Research (DEL): Research on Tataltepec de Valdes Chatino (cta)

这个项目将生成一种瓦尔达姆斯查特诺语的语法，这是墨西哥瓦哈卡州的一种语言，属于广泛使用的奥托曼格语。Tataltepec Chatino是Chatino语言中的一个独立分支，因此，它为原始Chatino母语的重建提供了信息，这反过来又将为更遥远的共同祖先语言，原始萨波特坎语和原始欧托曼坎语的重建提供见解。Tataltepec Chatino的参考语法非常紧迫，因为现在只有不到2000人使用这种语言，大多数人都在Tataltepec de vald<s:1>斯村，年龄都在30岁以上。该项目研究了汉语在句法、音韵学和语音学上一些不太常见的特点，其中包括汉语动词-主-宾的语序、丰富的词汇语调系统和异常复杂的语调相互作用规则。它还将允许记录塔塔尔特佩克查特诺语和塔塔尔特佩克语言习俗，这将是该语言的使用者及其后代的宝贵资源。该语法的产生是德克萨斯大学为记录和描述瓦哈卡的查特诺语言所做的更大努力的一部分，这种努力强调了语言学、查特诺语言素养和相关领域的说话者培训。为此，研究人员将继续与已建立的演讲学员团队合作，并寻找新的学员。使用中语言的录音，连同转录、翻译和分析，将被存档在一个数字档案中，供未来的研究人员和社区成员使用。

This project will produce a grammar of Tataltepec de Valdés Chatino, a language of Oaxaca, Mexico belonging to the widespread Otomanguean language stock. Tataltepec Chatino is an independent branch among the Chatino languages and as such informs the reconstruction of a proto-Chatino parent language, which in turn will offer insight into the reconstruction of the more remote common ancestor languages, proto-Zapotecan and proto-Otomanguean. A reference grammar of Tataltepec Chatino is highly urgent since the language is now spoken by fewer than two thousand people, mostly over 30 years old, all in the village of Tataltepec de Valdés. The project researches several less commonly-observed traits in its syntax, phonology and phonetics, among them, its word order which is verb-subject-object and its rich system of lexical tone and unusually intricate rules for the interaction of tones. It also will allow for the recording of Tataltepec Chatino speech and Tataltepec linguistic customs which will be a valuable resource for the speakers of the language and their descendents.The production of this grammar is part of a larger effort at the University of Texas to document and describe the Chatino languages of Oaxaca in a way that places a strong emphasis on speaker training in linguistics, Chatino language literacy, and related areas. To this end, the researcher will continue work with an established team of speaker trainees and also seek out new trainees. Recordings of the language in use, along with transcriptions, translations, and analyses, will be archived in a digital archive, where they will be available to future researchers and community members.