Archiving the Terrence Kaufman Collection

泰伦斯·考夫曼收藏的归档

• 批准号: 1157867
• 负责人: Anthony Woodbury
• 金额: $ 24.58万
• 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: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-05-01 至 2018-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1157867&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Archiving; Terrence; Kaufman; Collection

The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) at the University of Texas at Austin will catalog, digitize, and archive the Terrence Kaufman Collection. Dr. Kaufman is one of the world's foremost Mesoamericanists. His career spans more than fifty years. His research includes most of the language families in a region of great linguistic, cultural, historical, and archaeological importance. Kaufman's vast language documentation work has made important contributions to linguistics as well as to other disciplines. The core of his contribution is the historical reconstruction of proto-languages - the ancestors of modern languages - including Mayan, Mixe-Zoquean, and Uto-Aztecan. This research sheds light on interactions among peoples and the transmission of ideas as well as artifacts. Kaufman and his collaborators have made major contributions to the understanding of the pre-history of Mesoamerican societies.The collection includes over 100,000 pages of manuscript; 900 CDs of original recordings; 100 boxes of file slips; and 200 digital texts and databases. These materials will be digitized, converted to standard formats, and preserved in AILLA. The collection and the catalog will be available through English and Spanish web-based interfaces. Grammars, dictionaries, and collections of texts can be repurposed for language teaching at all levels. Revitalization efforts are underway for dozens of the languages documented in this collection; these materials will be a treasure trove for such efforts. Kaufman has always promoted the participation of speakers in all aspects of language documentation. He devised practical orthographies for most of the languages of Mesoamerica that make transcriptions and other data easier for non-specialists to use. Many native-speaker graduates of his projects are now teachers, researchers, or directors of institutes who can make immediate use of the resources that will be made available through this project.

德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的拉丁美洲土著语言档案馆（AILLA）将对泰伦斯考夫曼的收藏进行编目、检索和存档。考夫曼博士是世界上最重要的中美洲学者之一。他的职业生涯跨越了五十多年。他的研究包括在一个伟大的语言，文化，历史和考古重要性的地区的大部分语系。考夫曼大量的语言文献工作为语言学和其他学科做出了重要贡献。他的贡献的核心是原始语言的历史重建-现代语言的祖先-包括玛雅语，Mixe-Zoquean和Uto-Aztecan。这项研究揭示了人与人之间的互动以及思想和文物的传播。考夫曼和他的合作者们为了解中美洲社会的史前史做出了重大贡献。收藏品包括超过10万页的手稿、900张原始录音CD、100盒文件单以及200个数字文本和数据库。这些材料将被数字化，转换为标准格式，并保存在AILLA。将通过英文和西班牙文的网络界面提供这一汇编和目录。语法、词典和文本集可以重新用于各级语言教学。目前正在努力振兴本汇编中记录的几十种语言;这些材料将成为这种努力的宝库。考夫曼一直在促进发言者参与语言文献的各个方面。他为中美洲的大多数语言设计了实用的拼写法，使音译和其他数据更容易为非专业人士使用。他的项目的许多以英语为母语的毕业生现在是教师、研究人员或研究所所长，他们可以立即利用这个项目提供的资源。