Archiving the Terrence Kaufman Collection

德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的拉丁美洲土著语言档案馆（AILLA）将对特伦斯·考夫曼收藏进行编目、数字化和存档。考夫曼博士是世界上最重要的中美洲学者之一。他的职业生涯跨越了五十多年。他的研究涵盖了在语言、文化、历史和考古上具有重要意义的地区的大多数语系。考夫曼大量的语言文献工作为语言学和其他学科做出了重要贡献。他贡献的核心是对原始语言（现代语言的祖先）的历史重建，包括玛雅语、米斯-佐昆语和乌托-阿兹特克语。这项研究揭示了人与人之间的互动以及思想和文物的传播。考夫曼和他的合作者对了解中美洲社会的史前历史做出了重大贡献。藏品包括超过10万页的手稿；原创唱片900张；100箱文件卡；以及200个数字文本和数据库。这些材料将被数字化，转换成标准格式，并保存在AILLA中。馆藏和目录将通过英文和西班牙文网络界面提供。语法、字典和文本集可以重新用于各个层次的语言教学。复兴的努力正在进行，在这个集合中记录了几十种语言；这些材料将是这种努力的宝库。Kaufman一直提倡演讲者参与语言文献的各个方面。他为大多数中美洲语言设计了实用的正字法，使非专业人士更容易使用转录和其他数据。他的计划的许多以母语为母语的毕业生现在是教师、研究人员或研究所的主任，他们可以立即利用这个计划所提供的资源。

The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) at the University of Texas at Austin will catalog, digitize, and archive the Terrence Kaufman Collection. Dr. Kaufman is one of the world's foremost Mesoamericanists. His career spans more than fifty years. His research includes most of the language families in a region of great linguistic, cultural, historical, and archaeological importance. Kaufman's vast language documentation work has made important contributions to linguistics as well as to other disciplines. The core of his contribution is the historical reconstruction of proto-languages - the ancestors of modern languages - including Mayan, Mixe-Zoquean, and Uto-Aztecan. This research sheds light on interactions among peoples and the transmission of ideas as well as artifacts. Kaufman and his collaborators have made major contributions to the understanding of the pre-history of Mesoamerican societies.The collection includes over 100,000 pages of manuscript; 900 CDs of original recordings; 100 boxes of file slips; and 200 digital texts and databases. These materials will be digitized, converted to standard formats, and preserved in AILLA. The collection and the catalog will be available through English and Spanish web-based interfaces. Grammars, dictionaries, and collections of texts can be repurposed for language teaching at all levels. Revitalization efforts are underway for dozens of the languages documented in this collection; these materials will be a treasure trove for such efforts. Kaufman has always promoted the participation of speakers in all aspects of language documentation. He devised practical orthographies for most of the languages of Mesoamerica that make transcriptions and other data easier for non-specialists to use. Many native-speaker graduates of his projects are now teachers, researchers, or directors of institutes who can make immediate use of the resources that will be made available through this project.