Doctoral Dissertation Research: Documenting information structure in Isthmus Zapotec

博士论文研究：记录萨波特克地峡的信息结构

• 批准号: 1064624
• 负责人: Lenore Grenoble
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-15 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1064624&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Documenting; information

Isthmus Zapotec (ZAI) is a Zapotecan language of the Otomanguean stock spoken by approximately 80,000 people in and around Juchitán de Zaragoza, in southern Oaxaca, Mexico. Although the percentage of residents of Juchitán older than 50 who speak ZAI is quite high (more than 80%), the percentage of children who are growing up speaking the language is much lower, hovering around 50%. Thus, while stable Spanish-ZAI bilingualism has been the norm for several centuries, the language shift from ZAI to Spanish is now occurring very quickly (as is common in the majority of indigenous communities throughout Mexico). Given that the long-term viability of the language is uncertain, it is important to document spontaneous language use in a variety of natural contexts.The main objective of this project is to document information structure in the language by recording, transcribing, annotating, and analyzing spoken texts from spontaneous life narratives. In addition, native speaker judgments of constructed examples will be elicited. Information structure is understood as the study of the ways that the different components of sentences -- intonation, morphology, and syntax -- are organized by speakers in order to communicate certain kinds of information. Although the available linguistic documentation on ZAI is greater than that of most other Mexican indigenous languages, particularly those outside of the Mayan language family, no documentation of information structure or discourse phenomena exists for this language. The documentary corpus to be obtained will thus allow for a more complete understanding of the range of constructions that are available to IZ speakers and how they are employed to respond to specific discourse motivations. These materials promise to bring novel data to Mesoamerican linguistics and will provide new grounds from which to evaluate and inform theoretical work on information structure and narrative.Proper linguistic documentation and, in particular, the documentation of discourse can be an important tool in forging effective language maintenance efforts in the ZAI community. The recordings and transcriptions will be made available to the community, thereby contributing to ZAI language teaching and learning. The documentation of ZAI oral genres could have an especially positive effect, since local schools lack materials derived from their own oral traditions and/or from naturally-occurring speech.

萨波特克地峡 (ZAI) 是奥托曼格语系的萨波特坎语，在墨西哥瓦哈卡州南部的胡奇坦德萨拉戈萨及其周边地区约有 80,000 人使用该语言，但胡奇坦地区 50 岁以上的居民使用 ZAI 的比例相当高（超过 100,000 人）。 80%），在成长过程中使用该语言的儿童比例要低得多，徘徊在 50% 左右，因此虽然稳定。西班牙语-ZAI 双语已经成为几个世纪的常态，从 ZAI 到西班牙语的语言转变现在正在迅速发生（这在墨西哥大多数土著社区中很常见），因为该语言的长期生存能力尚不确定。 ，记录各种自然环境中的自发语言使用非常重要。该项目的主要目标是通过记录、转录、注释和分析来自自发生活叙述的口语文本来记录语言中的信息结构。说话者对构造实例的判断将信息结构被理解为研究说话者组织句子的不同组成部分（语调、形态和语法）以传达某些类型的信息，尽管 ZAI 的可用语言文档是这样的。比大多数其他墨西哥土著语言，特别是玛雅语系以外的语言，该语言不存在信息结构或话语现象的记录，因此，要获得的文献语料库将允许更全面地理解该语言的范围。 IZ 扬声器可用的结构及其使用方式这些材料有望为中美洲语言学带来新的数据，并将为评估和指导信息结构和叙事的理论工作提供新的基础。适当的语言记录，特别是话语记录可以是ZAI 社区中形成有效语言维护工作的重要工具将向社区提供录音和转录，从而为 ZAI 语言教学和学习做出贡献，因为 ZAI 口语流派的记录可能会产生特别积极的影响。学校缺乏衍生材料来自他们自己的口头传统和/或自然发生的言语。