RAPID: Proto Utian (Miwok-Costanoan) Grammar and Dictionary: Description, Historical Reconstruction, and Theoretical Implications

这项研究项目将完成加州中部印第安语系原始乌蒂亚语(Miwok-Costanoan)的语法和词典。《关于Yokuts的原始Utian语法和词典》将是关于这个范围广泛的语言家族的权威信息纲要。这项工作代表了50年来学术研究的顶峰；它将收集和综合目前分散在各种词典和期刊文章中的关于乌提亚语的广泛信息，其中一些内容晦涩难懂，或被埋在实地笔记中。就科斯塔诺亚语而言，现在几乎没有出版的材料。《关于Yokuts的原始Utian语法和词典》将展示Miwok和Costanoan家族的语言是如何相互联系的，以及它们是如何从原始Utian流传下来的。这本书将作为急需的参考：(1)对复兴或振兴他们的语言和文化感兴趣的米沃克人和科斯塔诺人后裔；(2)研究美洲原住民语言的语言学家；(3)研究史前文化、移民和文化间接触的人类学家；(4)对语言变化感兴趣的历史语言学家；以及(5)对尤蒂安语言的特定特征感兴趣的语言理论家和类型学家。

This research project will complete a grammar and dictionary for Proto Utian (Miwok-Costanoan), a family of Central California Indian languages. The Proto Utian Grammar and Dictionary with Notes on Yokuts will be an authoritative compendium of information on this wide-ranging language family. This work represents the culmination of 50 years of scholarship; it will gather and synthesize a wide range of information on the Utian languages that is currently scattered in various dictionaries and journal articles, some of them obscure, or buried in field notes. In the case of Costanoan languages, very little published material is now available. The Proto Utian Grammar and Dictionary with Notes on Yokuts will demonstrate how the languages of the Miwok and Costanoan families are related to one another and how they descended from Proto Utian. This volume will serve as a much-needed reference for: (1) people of Miwok and Costanoan descent who are interested in reviving or revitalizing their languages and cultures; (2) linguists studying Native American languages; (3) anthropologists studying prehistoric cultures, migrations, and intercultural contact; (4) historical linguists interested in language change; and (5) linguistic theoreticians and typologists interested in particular features of Utian languages.