Doctoral Dissertation Research (DEL): Documentation of Southeastern Tepehuan: A Corpus of Annotated Texts

本论文项目将为东南特佩环（SET）提供高质量的原始文献资料，为正在进行的濒危语言文献领域的工作做出重要贡献。该项目有两个目的，一是为特佩瓦东南部或奥奥丹地区的自然语言提供急需的文献资料，二是对这种语言的从句联合进行语言学分析。特佩瓦语是乌托-阿兹特克语系特佩曼语分支中被描述最少的语言之一。这项研究是数据收集和分析的重要一步，可以与其他乌特-阿兹特克语和非乌特-阿兹特克语进行比较。实地考察期间包括8个月，在Mezquital （Tobaatam）的La Guajolota记录不同类型的交流活动。该项目将集中于语言注释和文本分析。成果包括：1)一个15-20小时的转录、注释和分析SET文本的语料库，包括音频和视频记录；2)建立一个O'odam文档语言委员会，该委员会将指导、建议和整合社区，以完成记录语言的任务；3)创建促进语言教育和振兴的教材，通过建立可访问的语言记录来满足社区的需求；4)在共同负责人的博士论文中分析特佩环东南部的条款联盟。项目成果将不仅对语言学领域感兴趣，而且通过提供口述历史和Tepehuans的当地知识，对人类学、考古学、历史学、社会语言学和相关领域也有兴趣。这些数据，除了提供对该语言的更深入的理解之外，还可以潜在地用于评估迄今为止提出的墨西哥北部移民和人口模型。对母语为特佩环语的人进行语言描述方面的培训，包括方法和工具，将为当地语言文献提供必要的技能，这将对所产生的材料的接受和使用产生影响，并改善人们对自己语言的思考方式。此外，收集的文本，以及语法的讨论，将用于开发教学语法和材料在当地的双语教育计划。

This dissertation project will make an important contribution to ongoing efforts in the field of documenting endangered languages by providing high quality original documentation materials for Southeastern Tepehuan (SET). The project has the dual purpose of providing much needed documentation of naturally-occurring speech in Southeastern Tepehuan or O'odam and of contributing to the linguistic analysis of clause union in this language, one of the least described languages of the Tepiman branch of the Uto-Aztecan family. This research constitutes an important step in data gathering and analysis which will permit comparisons with other Uto-Aztecan and non-Uto-Aztecan languages. The fieldwork period comprises eight months in La Guajolota, Mezquital (Tobaatam) to document different types of communicative events. The project will concentrate on the linguistic annotations and text analysis. Outcomes include 1) a corpus of 15-20 hours of transcribed, annotated, and analyzed SET texts, including audio and video recordings 2) the establishment of an O'odam Documentation Language Committee that will guide, advise and integrate the community in the task of documenting the language, 3) the creation of pedagogical materials for promoting language education and revitalization which will advance the needs of the community by establishing an accessible record of the language and 4) the analysis of clause union in Southeastern Tepehuan in the co-PI's doctoral dissertation.The project outcomes will not only be of interest to the field of linguistics, but also to the fields of anthropology, archaeology, history, sociolinguistics and related fields by providing oral histories and local knowledge of the Tepehuans. The data, in addition to providing a deeper understanding of the language, can potentially be used to evaluate the models of migration and population of northern Mexico that have been proposed to date. The training of native Tepehuan speakers in language description, including methods and tools, will provide the skills necessary for local language documentation which will have an impact on both the acceptance and use of the resulting materials as well as improve the way people reflect on their own language. Additionally, the collected texts, as well the discussions of grammar, will be used to develop pedagogical grammars and materials in the local bilingual education programs.