A Reference Grammar of Choguita Raramuri (Tarahumara) [ISO 639-3: tar]

Choguita RaráMuri(CR；Tarahumara)是墨西哥北部使用的一种濒危的、描述不足的乌托-阿兹特克语言，在18世纪之前，该地区有相当多的语言在没有任何文献的情况下灭绝。凭借其复杂的形态，CR提供了一个独特的机会来探索关于音系学-形态界面的性质、凝聚形态系统中心理语言学和分布因素之间的相互作用以及重建美洲语言和文化历史的关键问题。在过去十年中开展的初步文件工作产生了具有代表性的各种演讲流派的视频和音频记录样本。该项目将在数量和质量上扩大现有语料库，以便深化对该语言的描述和分析，以完成对该语言的语法描述。通过越来越多地由社区成员控制、模拟和制作的语言文件，该项目将提供：(1)与带注释语料库相联系的参考语法；(2)分析这种语言在类型上不寻常的形态条件的语音过程；(3)评估社区语言社区内语言结构的差异，包括年长的、主要说单语的人与年轻的双语者之间的差异；以及(4)向社区成员提供转录和注释的视听文件语料库，以帮助扭转语言衰落的局面。经过注释的语料库将允许对这种粘合语言中形态结构的语音线索进行新颖的理论研究。因此，该项目将有助于启动对具有相似形态系统的美洲未被描述的语言的复杂和细粒度的语音和形态特征的研究。研究生和本科生都参与了这项研究，这项研究将促进社区通过社区成员的参与来振兴和加强语言使用的努力。此外，这项研究将有助于了解该地区的土地利用历史，这是一个最近备受关注的话题。

Choguita Rarámuri (CR; Tarahumara) is an endangered, underdescribed Uto-Aztecan language spoken in northern Mexico, an area where a significant number of languages became extinct without any documentation before the eighteenth century. With its complex morphology, CR provides a unique opportunity to explore critical questions about the nature of the phonology-morphology interface, the interplay between psycholinguistic and distributional factors in agglutinating morphological systems, as well as the reconstruction of the linguistic and cultural past of the Americas. Initial documentation efforts carried out in the past decade have produced a representative sample of video and audio recordings of a wide range of speech genres. This project will quantitatively and qualitatively expand the existing corpus in order to deepen description and analysis of the language towards the completion of a grammatical description of the language. Through language documentation that is increasingly controlled, modeled and produced by community members, the project will provide: (1) a reference grammar linked to an annotated corpus; (2) an analysis of the typologically unusual morphologically conditioned phonological processes of this language; (3) an assessment of the variation in the linguistic structures within the CR speech community, including variation between older, mostly monolingual speakers, and younger, bilingual speakers; and (4) a corpus of transcribed and annotated audio and visual documents available to community members to serve in efforts of reversal of language decline. The annotated corpus will allow conducting novel theoretical studies on the phonological cues of morphological structure in this agglutinating language. As such, this project will contribute to initiating studies of sophisticated and fine-grained phonological and morphological properties in under-described languages of the Americas with similar morphological systems. Both graduate students and undergraduates are involved in this research, and the research will foster the community's efforts to revitalize and fortify language use through involvement of community members. In addition, the research will be of value to understanding the history of land use in the area, a topic that has attracted recent attention.