Gabriela Caballero

This Element addresses the challenges and opportunities that arise in the study of sound systems of understudied languages within the context of language documentation, an expanding field that seeks to develop records of the world's languages and their patterns of use in their broader cultural and social context. The topics covered in this Element focus on different elements of language documentation and their relationship to phonological analysis, including lexicography, documentary corpora, music and the verbal arts, as well as grammar writing. For each of these areas, the authors examine methodological and theoretical implications for phonology. With growing concern in the field of language documentation and linguistics more generally for the distribution and implementation of the products of research and its impact for Indigenous language communities, this Element also discusses how phonological documentation may contribute to the development of resources for language communities.

This Element addresses the challenges and opportunities that arise in the study of sound systems of understudied languages within the context of language documentation, an expanding field that seeks to develop records of the world's languages and their patterns of use in their broader cultural and social context. The topics covered in this Element focus on different elements of language documentation and their relationship to phonological analysis, including lexicography, documentary corpora, music and the verbal arts, as well as grammar writing. For each of these areas, the authors examine methodological and theoretical implications for phonology. With growing concern in the field of language documentation and linguistics more generally for the distribution and implementation of the products of research and its impact for Indigenous language communities, this Element also discusses how phonological documentation may contribute to the development of resources for language communities.

"Podr a sentirse invisible quien se va, aquel que, huyendo del horror, ha tenido que recomenzar su vida en otro pa s. No obstante, invisible es realmente el olvido, y este libro, en ese sentido, se alza en contra de ello. Las historias de El tren de los invisibles de Gabriela Caballero se adentran en un espacio de memoria que transita con agilidad y belleza ese tren bala que es el g nero del cuento, y all viajan personajes desarraigados, perif ricos, luchadores o vencidos, cuyas vidas son rescatadas en estos dramas conmovedores y al mismo tiempo muy amenos. El tren de los invisibles, como primer libro, deja testimonio de una escritora con un universo ya coherente, conocimiento del oficio y una l cida sensibilidad cr tica." Fedosy Santaella

This book provides the first comprehensive grammatical description of Choguita Rar muri, a Uto-Aztecan language spoken in the Sierra Tarahumara, a mountainous range in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua belonging to the Sierra Madre Occidental. A documentary corpus developed between 2003 and 2018 with Choguita Rar muri language experts informs the analysis and is the source of the examples presented in this grammar. The documentary corpus, which consists of over 200 hours of recordings of elicited data, narratives, conversations, interviews, and other speech genres, is available in two archival collections housed at the Endangered Languages Archive and at UC Berkeley's Survey of California and Other Indian Languages. Choguita Rar muri is a highly synthetic, agglutinating language with a complex morphological system. It displays many of the recurrent structural features documented across Uto-Aztecan, including a predominance of suffixation, head-marking, and patterns of noun-incorporation and compounding (Sapir 1921; Whorf 1935; Haugen 2008b). Other features of typological and theoretical interest include a complex word prosodic system, a wide range of morphologically conditioned phonological processes, and patterns of variable affix order and multiple exponence. Choguita Rar muri is also of great comparative/historical importance: while several analytical works of Uto-Aztecan languages of Northern Mexico have been produced in the last years (Guerrero Valenzuela 2006, Garc a Salido 2014, Reyes Taboada 2014, Morales Moreno 2016, Villalpando Qui onez 2019, inter alia), many varieties still lack comprehensive linguistic description and documentation. Contributor biographies Choguita elder +Luz Elena Le n Ram rez was a master storyteller and an invaluable source of linguistic, cultural and historical knowledge. She contributed many narratives to the corpus, including procedural texts, historical narratives, descriptions of culturally relevant events in the comm