Barbareno Chumash Grammar

摘要该项目的目标是为加州本土语言Barbareno Chumash准备一个清晰的、基于功能的参考语法。Barbareno Chumash可能是记录最多但最不为人所知的北美语言之一。现存的大量手稿材料，其中大部分是无组织的，大部分是未翻译的，到目前为止，这让单独工作的学者感到气馁。一个小组将把这些材料组织起来，并以一种可以通过检索程序进行分类的形式输入计算机。然后，它将可能提取语料库中任何语素的所有实例，在上下文中，通过直译和意译。每个参与者将研究语言的特定领域，并将结果提交给小组其他成员进行讨论和修改。在项目的最后一年，这些研究将被转化为全面的语法。由于这种语言复杂的动词形态对句法和语篇结构有重要的影响，一个详细的、例证丰富的语法对语言理论应该特别重要。由于Chumash被分配到假想的Hokan语言库中的争议很大，这一数据的可获得性将是研究北美语言之间更深层次遗传关系的重要工具。语法也应该为民族学家、民族生物学家、民族历史学家、历史学家和其他对楚玛什人感兴趣的人提供期待已久的资源。

ABSTRACT The goal of the project is to prepare a clear, functionally based reference grammar of Barbareno Chumash, a language indigenous to California. Barbareno Chumash is probably among the best documented but least known languages of North America. The enormous quantity of manuscript material that exists, most of it unorganized and much of it untranslated, has until now daunted scholars working alone. A group will organize the material and enter it into a computer in a form that can be sorted by a concordance program. It will then be possible to extract all instances of any morpheme in the corpus, in context, with literal and free translations. Each participant will research specific areas of the language and present results to the rest of the group for discussion and revision. During the final year of the project, the studies will be worked into a comprehensive grammar. Because of the elaborate verb morphology of the language, which has major ramifications for syntactic and discourse structure, a detailed, richly exemplified grammar should be of special importance to linguistic theory. Because of the much debated assignment of Chumash to the hypothesized Hokan stock of languages, accessibility of this data will be an important tool for work on deeper genetic relationships among North America languages. The grammar should also provide a long-awaited resource to ethnologists, ethnobiologists, ethnohistorians, historians, and others interested in the Chumash.