Doctoral Dissertation: A Grammar of San Miguel Chimalapa Zoque

这个项目的目标是描述和分析圣米格尔Chimalapa Zoque（Zoque）的语法。这是墨西哥西南部瓦哈卡的一种米克斯-佐奎语。该项目将是第一个详细的文件，Oaxacan Zoque和第一个研究的语法的任何方言。 项目工作包括在墨西哥学习12个月，与母语顾问合作确定语言的语法结构。自然发生的语音和各种叙事文本的样本将被记录，翻译和分析，以研究的话语结构的Zoque和加强和指导的直接启发过程。 该项目的结果将是学生研究员的博士论文。预计该项目将对以下方面具有重要意义：（a）记录和描述在所有社区中正在迅速被西班牙语取代的Mixe-Zoquean语言;（B）重建现代Zoquean语言的祖先epi-Olmec的历史工作;（c）形态句法和句法方面的理论工作，通过提供当前和可用的数据，在这些语法层次上有许多有趣的现象;（d）（通过上述）促进对各种语言的研究，特别是那些在“实地”研究和面临灭绝的语言。

The goal of this project is to describe and analyze the grammar of San Miguel Chimalapa Zoque (MIG Zoque). This is a Mixe-Zoquean language spoken in southwestern Oaxaca, Mexico. The project will be the first detailed documentation of MIG Zoque and the first study of the syntax of any of the Oaxacan Zoque dialects. Project work involves twelve months of study in Mexico, working with native speaker consultants to determine the grammatical structure of the language. Samples of naturally-occurring speech and narrative texts of various kinds will be recorded, translated, and analyzed in order to study the discourse structure of MIG Zoque and to enhance and guide the direct elicitation process. The result of the project will be the student investigator's doctoral dissertation. The project is expected to have significance for (a) the documentation and description of Mixe-Zoquean languages, which are rapidly being replaced by Spanish in all communities; (b) historical work in reconstructing epi-Olmec, an ancestor of the modern Zoquean languages; (c) theoretical work in morphosyntax and syntax, by providing current and usable data on a language with many interesting phenomena at these levels of the grammar; and (d) the promotion (via the foregoing) of research on a wide range of languages, especially those studied in the 'field' and faced with imminent extinction.