| FN-50099-11 | Research Programs: Dynamic Language Infrastructure-Documenting Endangered Languages - Fellowships | Aviva W. Shimelman | Documention of Yauyos | 9/1/2011 - 8/31/2012 | $50,400.00 | Aviva | W. | Shimelman | | | | San Jose State University | San Jose | CA | 95192-0001 | USA | 2011 | Linguistics | Dynamic Language Infrastructure-Documenting Endangered Languages - Fellowships | Research Programs | 50400 | 0 | 50400 | 0 |
The goal of this project is to document Yauyos, a nearly extinct Quechuan language. Yauyos is not a single language, but a "supralect," a set of seven or more more-or-less mutually intelligible dialects spoken in fourteen villages in the Cañete Valley of Peru, approximately 200 kilometers south-east of Lima. Investigators will conduct fieldwork to record Yauyos in audio and video format; prepare a database of annotated recordings of Yauyos; prepare a lexicon of Yauyos; prepare a sketch grammar of Yauyos; and conduct analysis of Yauyos in light of current theory in formal semantics, in particular with regard to its evidential and modal system. (Edited by staff) |