Hiaki Grammar: Documentation, Analysis and Teaching

该奖项由2009年《美国复苏和再投资法案》(公法111-5)资助。Hiaki(也称为“Yaqui”和“Yoeme”)是亚利桑那州南部和墨西哥索诺拉地区使用的一种濒临灭绝的乌托-阿兹特克语。亚利桑那州的Hiaki方言正在消亡；它的70-80名母语者都是50岁或更老的人，而且它并没有被作为第一语言来学习。因此，它在美国非常接近灭绝。本项目将提供这种严重濒危语言的基本文件。该项目将与流利的以这种语言为母语的人合作，并与部落语言发展计划合作，将(A)首次深入描述和分析三个不寻常的语法过程，(B)制作一份Hiaki的教学语法草稿，(C)创建一个网站，为部落成员和部落认可的学者提供对Hiaki的注解和翻译数据库的访问，以及(D)为两名研究生提供语言培训，其中一人是部落成员，对其传统语言有着深深的承诺。除了目标是更多地了解Hiaki语法之外，这个项目的一个主要重点是创建对Hiaki语言教师和学习者有用和容易理解的语言的语法描述。Hiaki的教学语法将包括与Hiaki文化、Hiaki神话和故事以及历史事件相关的课文和练习，并对内容进行排序，使信息的进展与复杂的Hiaki文化日历的年度周期相关联。Hiaki文本和翻译的在线数据库将具有密码保护访问功能。与部落合作，我们将为Hiaki语言学习者和学者谈判明确定义和适当的访问级别。最后，该项目为亚利桑那大学语言学系的Hiaki研究生提供支持和培训，该研究生注册了美国原住民语言学硕士(NAMA)项目。这名学生的最终目标是振兴亚利桑那州的Hiaki，他在生命的最后几年一直致力于接受必要的培训，以成为这一努力的领导者。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Hiaki (also known as "Yaqui" and "Yoeme") is an endangered Uto-Aztecan language spoken in Southern Arizona and in Sonora Mexico. The Arizona dialect of Hiaki is moribund; its 70-80 native speakers are all fifty years of age or older, and it is not being learned as a first language. Consequently, it is very close to extinction in the United States. The present project will provide essential documentation of this severely endangered language. Working with fluent native speakers of the language and with the tribal Language Development program, this project will (a) provide the first in-depth description and analysis of three unusual grammatical processes, (b) produce a draft of a teaching grammar of Hiaki, (c) create a website to provide access to a database of glossed and translated Hiaki for tribal members and tribe-approved academics, and (d) provide linguistic training for two graduate students, one of whom is a tribal member with a deep commitment to his heritage language.In addition to the goal of discovering more about Hiaki grammar, a major emphasis of this project is to create grammatical descriptions of the language that are useful and accessible to Hiaki language teachers and learners. The teaching grammar of Hiaki will include texts and exercises relevant to Hiaki culture, Hiaki myths and stories and historical events, and content will be ordered so that the progression of information is correlated with the yearly cycle of the complex Hiaki cultural calendar. The online database of Hiaki text and translations will feature password-protected access. In collaboration with the tribe, we will negotiate clearly defined and appropriate levels of access for Hiaki language learners and academics. Finally, the project provides support and training for a Hiaki graduate student enrolled in the Native American Linguistics Masters (NAMA) program at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. The student's ultimate goal is the revitalization of Hiaki in Arizona, and he has dedicated the last few years of his life to getting the training necessary to be a leader in that effort.