A Reference Grammar of Choguita Raramuri (Tarahumara) [ISO 639-3: tar]

Choguita Raramuri (Tarahumara) 的参考语法 [ISO 639-3: tar]

• 批准号: 1160672
• 负责人: Gabriela Caballero-Hernandez
• 金额: $ 16.22万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 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: 2012-07-01 至 2018-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1160672&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Reference; Grammar; Choguita; Raramuri; Tarahumara

Choguita Rarámuri (CR; Tarahumara) is an endangered, underdescribed Uto-Aztecan language spoken in northern Mexico, an area where a significant number of languages became extinct without any documentation before the eighteenth century. With its complex morphology, CR provides a unique opportunity to explore critical questions about the nature of the phonology-morphology interface, the interplay between psycholinguistic and distributional factors in agglutinating morphological systems, as well as the reconstruction of the linguistic and cultural past of the Americas. Initial documentation efforts carried out in the past decade have produced a representative sample of video and audio recordings of a wide range of speech genres. This project will quantitatively and qualitatively expand the existing corpus in order to deepen description and analysis of the language towards the completion of a grammatical description of the language. Through language documentation that is increasingly controlled, modeled and produced by community members, the project will provide: (1) a reference grammar linked to an annotated corpus; (2) an analysis of the typologically unusual morphologically conditioned phonological processes of this language; (3) an assessment of the variation in the linguistic structures within the CR speech community, including variation between older, mostly monolingual speakers, and younger, bilingual speakers; and (4) a corpus of transcribed and annotated audio and visual documents available to community members to serve in efforts of reversal of language decline. The annotated corpus will allow conducting novel theoretical studies on the phonological cues of morphological structure in this agglutinating language. As such, this project will contribute to initiating studies of sophisticated and fine-grained phonological and morphological properties in under-described languages of the Americas with similar morphological systems. Both graduate students and undergraduates are involved in this research, and the research will foster the community's efforts to revitalize and fortify language use through involvement of community members. In addition, the research will be of value to understanding the history of land use in the area, a topic that has attracted recent attention.

乔吉塔语Rarámuri （CR; Tarahumara）是一种濒临灭绝的、未被充分描述的乌托-阿兹特克语，它生活在墨西哥北部，在18世纪之前，该地区有大量语言在没有任何文献记载的情况下灭绝。由于其复杂的形态学，CR提供了一个独特的机会来探索有关语音-形态学界面的本质，粘合形态学系统中心理语言学和分布因素之间的相互作用，以及美洲语言和文化过去的重建等关键问题。在过去十年中进行的初步文件编制工作已经产生了广泛语言类型的具有代表性的视频和音频记录样本。这个项目将在数量和质量上扩展现有的语料库，以加深对语言的描述和分析，完成语言的语法描述。通过社区成员日益控制、建模和生成的语言文档，该项目将提供：(1)链接到带注释的语料库的参考语法；(2)对这种语言在类型学上不寻常的形态条件语音过程的分析；(3)语言结构变化的评估，包括老年人（多为单语者）和年轻人（多为双语者）之间的差异；(4)为社区成员提供转录和注释的视听文件语料库，以帮助扭转语言衰落的趋势。注释的语料库将允许对这种粘合语言的形态结构的音系线索进行新的理论研究。因此，该项目将有助于启动对具有类似形态学系统的美洲未被充分描述的语言的复杂和精细的语音和形态学特性的研究。研究生和本科生都参与了这项研究，这项研究将通过社区成员的参与促进社区的努力，以振兴和加强语言的使用。此外，该研究将对了解该地区土地利用的历史有价值，这是一个最近引起关注的话题。