Doctoral Dissertation Research: A descriptive grammar of Sipakapense Maya

这个项目的目的是描述和分析Sipakapense的语法结构，Sipakapense是危地马拉高地上使用的一种玛雅语言。该项目将是对Sipakapense的首次详细研究，Sipakapense是玛雅家族kichean分支中唯一尚未被描述的语言。这项研究将包括在危地马拉为期12个月的学习，与一名母语顾问一起确定该语言的语法结构。此外，为了研究Sipakapense语篇结构，增强激发数据，我们将收集、翻译和分析自然发生的语音样本。该项目的结果将是学生的德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的博士论文。此外，将向危地马拉玛雅语言学院提供结果的西班牙文版本，供其在语文标准化过程中使用。

WOODBURY The aim of this project is to describe and analyze the grammatical structure of Sipakapense, a Mayan language spoken in the highlands of Guatemala. The project will be the first detailed study of Sipakapense, the only language in the K'ichean branch of the Mayan family that has yet to be described. The research will consist of twelve months of study in Guatemala, working with a native speaker consultant to determine the grammatical structure of the language. In addition, samples of naturally-occurring speech will be collected, translated, and analyzed in order to study discourse structure in Sipakapense and to enhance the elicitation data. The result of the project will be the student's University of Texas at Austin doctoral dissertation. In addition, a Spanish-language version of the results will be provided to the Academy of Mayan Languages of Guatemala for use in the process of language standardization.