Socio-economic transformations, communicative practices and indigenous grammars: understanding current developments in Yucatec Maya

社会经济转型、交际实践和本土语法：了解尤卡坦玛雅当前的发展

• 批准号: 527419415
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Stavros Skopeteas
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Centro Peninsular En Humanidades Y Ciencias Sociales
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/527419415?language=en
• 关键词: Socio; economic; transformations; communicative; practices

Current socioeconomic developments influence speaker behavior (communicative practices and attitudes), which in turn may influence language change. With this in mind, this project aims to understand changes in indigenous/minority languages that may be influenced by current social processes. We are studying Yucatec Maya, an indigenous language in Mexico. As a language with a large population, Yucatec Maya provides an opportunity to study a variety of language situations that represent different scenarios related to language endangerment: areas with low density of indigenous population, migration to urban centers, external migration, educational contexts, etc. Sociological interviews and sociolinguistic measurements will be used to examine current changes in communication practices. Field experiments will be used to describe key developments in grammar that show interesting patterns of variation: (a) at the phonological level, we will examine the interaction of lexical tones and boundary tones, and variation in processes of coda weakening; (b) at the morphosyntactic level, we will examine developments in the syntax of nominal classifiers and the use of aspectual auxiliaries. Variation in these areas will be evaluated in terms of general phenomena that have been commonly reported for these situations: phenomena that increase the learnability of certain linguistic structures, changes that lead to variability, restructuring processes, instances of transfer. Based on these data collections and combining knowledge from linguistics, sociolinguistics, and the social sciences, models of the relationships between linguistic, sociolinguistic, and social variables will be built and compared against the data. The expected result contributes to our understanding of current developments in society and language and provide us with tools to assess language endangerment.

当前的社会经济发展影响说话人的行为（交际实践和态度），这反过来又可能影响语言的变化。考虑到这一点，该项目旨在了解土著/少数民族语言可能受到当前社会进程影响的变化。我们正在学习尤卡坦玛雅语，这是墨西哥的一种土著语言。作为一种人口众多的语言，尤卡坦玛雅提供了一个机会，研究各种语言的情况下，代表不同的场景有关的语言濒危：与土著人口密度低，迁移到城市中心，外部移民，教育环境等社会学的采访和社会语言学的测量将被用来研究目前的变化，在通信实践。实地实验将被用来描述语法的关键发展，表现出有趣的变化模式：（a）在语音层面上，我们将研究词汇音调和边界音调的相互作用，以及尾弱化过程中的变化;（B）在形态句法层面上，我们将研究名词性量词的句法发展和体助动词的使用。在这些领域的变化将被评估的一般现象，已普遍报告这些情况下：现象，增加了某些语言结构的可学习性，变化，导致变异，重组过程，迁移的情况。基于这些数据收集和结合语言学，社会语言学和社会科学的知识，语言，社会语言学和社会变量之间的关系模型将建立和比较的数据。预期结果有助于我们了解当前社会和语言的发展，并为我们提供评估语言濒危程度的工具。