Corpus and lexicon development: Endangered genres of discourse and domains of cultural knowledge in Tu'un isavi (Mixtec) of Yoloxochitl, Guerrero

该项目将制作和使用大量的主要文件(超过100个小时的数字录音和时间编码转录)来分析Yoloxóitl Mixtec(Ym)的语音、音位和形态结构，YM是一种很少被研究的孤立的Mixtecan动词-初始语言，墨西哥格雷罗州沿海12公里半径内的四个村庄的15,000人使用。混杂语言的复杂语音和音系(浮调、变调和双调单位上的变调序列的多样性)具有重要的理论意义。YM值得注意的是它在双调承载单元上的5个音级和18个序列的清单。Mixtecan语言中的鼻音化也引起了人们的极大兴趣，这里的ym也不寻常，因为鼻元音仅限于单词结尾的音节。音节--双音节音干中的元音不会是鼻音。最后，重音的声学在Mixtecan研究中受到的关注很少，尽管声调语言中的重音的性质是一个相当复杂的话题，有相当大的理论关注。一个跨学科的研究团队将研究ym语音学和音系学的这些主题和其他主题，研究团队包括一名拥有语言学硕士学位的母语者和一支语音学家和音位学家团队。与其他Mixtecan语言一样，ym是动词首字母，这是一种基本的词序序列，仅在大约10%的世界语言中出现。本项目将对这种不寻常的语序类型进行详细的形态句法研究，并解决具体的研究问题，如非基本语序的语用和语篇含义。大量转录的自然录音语料库和针对ym词法和句法的特定问题的启发式材料的开发将为语言学研究提供异常丰富的材料集。总之，这个项目将提供大量的主要文献，并为未来的语言学研究建立一个分析基础，特别是在语音学、音系学和形态句法方面，这是ym具有类型学意义的领域。

This project will produce and use extensive primary documentation (over 100 hours of digital recordings and time-coded transcriptions) to analyze the phonetics, phonology, and morphosyntax of Yoloxóchitl Mixtec (YM), a little-studied, isolated Mixtecan verb-initial language spoken by 15,000 people in four villages within a 12 kilometer radius in coastal Guerrero, Mexico. The complex phonetics and phonology of Mixtecan languages (floating tones, sandhi, and the diversity of tonal sequences on the bimoraic tone-bearing-unit) is of significant theoretical interest. YM is noteworthy for its inventory of 5 tone levels and 18 sequences on the bimoraic tone bearing unit. Nasalization in Mixtecan languages has also attracted significant interest and here too YM is unusual in that nasal vowels are limited to word-final syllables. Syllable-initial vowels in disyllabic stems are never nasal. Finally, the acoustics of stress has received little attention in Mixtecan studies although the nature of stress in tonal languages is a complex topic of considerable theoretical concern. These and other topics in YM phonetics and phonology will be studied by an interdisciplinary research team, including a native speaker with a masters degree in linguistics and a team of phoneticians and phonologists.Like other Mixtecan languages, YM is verb initial, a basic word order sequence represented in only approximately ten percent of world languages. This project will provide a detailed morphosyntactical study of this unusual type and address specific research questions, such as the pragmatic and discourse implications of nonbasic word order. The development of both an extensive corpus of transcribed natural recordings and elicitation material targeting specific questions in YM morphology and syntax will provide an unusually rich set of materials for linguistic research. In sum, this project will provide extensive primary documentation and establish an analytical base for future linguistic studies, particularly in phonetics, phonology, and morphosyntax, areas in which YM is of typological interest.