Dictionary of Jicarilla Apache

该项目的目标是编制一本吉卡里拉·阿帕奇语言词典。吉卡里亚语是一种东部阿帕契亚语，在新墨西哥州北部的吉卡里拉阿帕奇保留地使用。大约21%的人能流利地使用这门语言。其他东部阿帕奇语言，利潘和普莱恩斯阿帕奇，几乎灭绝。到目前为止，还没有为任何一种东方阿帕奇语言编制大规模的词典或语法。词典将由一个单一的数据库组成，但不同的编程功能将允许它以多种不同的格式打印出来。我们打算为这个项目期间制作两种格式的版本：1)语言学家的版本，其中4,000-5,000个单词(动词基础、名词、副词和助词)将在其Jicarilla-English部分按词根组织成大约1,000个条目，以及2)按语义场组织的本族语者/学习者版本。数据既来自直接启发，也来自录音文本和对话。该数据库将用于编制其他格式的词典，例如按单词首字母顺序排列的母语版本、光盘版本。该项目的参与者一直作为一个团队参与社区的语言振兴项目，包括一项日托沉浸计划。该项目将补充正在进行的语言工作，并将利用已经成立的由吉卡里拉阿帕奇长老/教育家和学术语言学家组成的团队，他们已经成功地合作了几年。该项目还将邀请一名吉卡里拉语法学专家，就词典和语法导论中提出的语法分析进行咨询。这一项目是一个难得的机会，可以使语言记录工作成为现有语言振兴方案的主要部分。它将为阿萨巴斯干语系的比较和历史语言学研究提供宝贵的数据，并为一般的多语种研究提供信息。它将学术学者的这一好处与一个旨在增强美国原住民社区重振其濒危语言愿望的计划结合在一起。

The objective of this project is to produce a dictionary of the Jicarilla Apache language. Jicarilla, an Eastern Apachean language, is spoken on the Jicarilla Apache reservation in northern New Mexico. Approximately 21% of the population is fluent in the language. Other Eastern Apache languages, Lipan and Plains Apache, are nearly extinct. To date, no large-scale dictionary or grammar has been produced for any of the Eastern Apachean languages.The dictionary will consist of a single database, but different programming features will allow it to be printed out in many different formats. We intend to produce versions in two formats for this project period: 1) a linguist's version, in which 4,000 - 5,000 words (verb bases, nouns, adverbs, and particles) will be organized by root into approximately 1,000 entries in its Jicarilla-English section, and 2) a native speaker/learner's version organized by semantic field. Data will come both from direct elicitation and from recorded texts and conversation. The database will be available for creating dictionaries in other formats, e.g. a native-speaker version organized alphabetically by word-initial segment, a CD ROM version.Participants on the project have been working as a team on language revitalization projects in the community, including a daycare immersion program. This project will complement the ongoing language work and will take advantage of an already-established team of Jicarilla Apache elder/educators and academic linguists who have been working together successfully for several years. The project also will bring an expert in Jicarilla morphosyntax for consultation on the grammatical analyses presented in the dictionaries and in the grammatical introductions.This project represents a rare opportunity to make language documentation efforts a major part of an already existing language revitalization program. It will make invaluable data available for comparative and historical linguistic research on the Athabaskan language family as well as providing information for the study of polysynthetic languages in general. It combines this benefit for academic scholars with a program designed to empower a Native American community in their desire to revitalize their endangered language.