Chantyal Grammar, Dictionary/Thesaurus, and Texts

本项目完成了1989年开始的藏缅语尚达雅语的分析和出版准备工作，尚达雅语属于藏缅语博底语系的古隆-塔加利-塔芒语系，以前从未被描述过。事实上，它的存在直到最近才在文献中被注意到。虽然它仍然是尼泊尔Myagdi地区几个小村庄的主要语言，但这种语言受到威胁，可能在不久的将来不再是这些村庄的主要交流媒介。该项目的目标是为出版一本全面的语法、一本字典/同义词典和一本文本集做准备。语法将在一个相对非理论的、描述性的框架中产生，以便对汉藏学家、人类学家和各种理论派别的一般语言学家最大限度地有用。语法和字典/同义词典将包含丰富的插图，从引出和文本材料。这些文本将被选择来举例说明几种话语类型和各种文化情境，将伴随着语素逐语素的注释以及翻译成地道的英语，并将重点放在语法上。

ABSTRACT This project completes the analysis and preparation for publication of work begun in 1989 on the Tibeto-Burman language Chantyal, which belongs to the Gurung-Thakali-Tamang group within the Bodic division of Tibeto-Burman, has never previously been described, and indeed its existence has only been recently noted in the literature. While still the principal language of a few small villages in the Myagdi district of Nepal, the language is threatened and may cease to be the principal medium of communication in these villages in the near future. The goal of the project is to prepare for publication a comprehensive grammar, a dictionary/thesaurus, and a collection of texts. The grammar will be produced in a relatively non- theoretical, descriptive framework so as to be of maximum utility to Sino-Tibetanists, anthropologists, and general linguists of various theoretical persuasions. The grammar and dictionary/thesaurus will contain copious illustrations from both elicted and textual material. The texts will be chosen to exemplify several discourse types and a variety of cultural situations, will be accompanied by morpheme-by-morpheme glosses as well as translations into idiomatic English, and will be keyed to the grammar.