This thread is to introduce either your current projects, or a project that you wish existed and that you would like to discuss. Please note: this thread is only to introduce the project. Each project should have its own dedicated topic. This thread is like an index that everyone can look through to find things that interest them. To continue the discussion about your project specifically, please create a new topic in the Projects category.
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Okay, hereās my project: Iām writing a (basic) grammar of Western Juxtlahuaca Mixtec (JMX). The linguistic data Iām working with is Iām using the format of the Alacatlatzala grammar as an outline. For example sentences, I either write them myself and have them checked or my co-author writes them or I take them out of texts that have already been transcribed. What is working is that I think we are making progress (25 pages since the lockdown) and whatās not working is that I struggle to know how to explain things using linguist words.
My other project is recording stories. I have two books done so far. Once weāre allowed to get together again Iām going to do new audio for the second book. It is based on audio recordings but the audio recordings are old (2015?) and punctuated with me asking questions every few minutes.
I am currently conjugating 200 Quiahije verbs. The morphology employ tonal melodies to mark person, number, and aspect, so I I am doing music. I would like to upload these verbs and their corresponding sound into Wiktionary. Let me know if you know how to do this. I am looking for a collaborator. I look forward to continuing the conversation.
Okay, Patrick says I can have lots of projects. My third project is to take the anatomy drawings that I colored (by myself!) and put on westcoastmixtecs.com and turn them into little web pages where a person can click on a body part and hear the word spoken out loud. Also, I spent a very long time trying to learn the word for spleen and now that Iām a medical interpreter Iāve never used the word. Liver and pancreas come up all the time, but nothing ever happens to the spleen.
Project 4: I did recordings of every word in Josserandās List oā Words with three Mixtec speakers from three different towns and then I never did anything with the recordings. So sad. Long term plan is to analyze differences and see if I can discover something interesting.
Current projects with my collaborator Carmen: get the San MartiĢn Duraznos Mixtec dictionary (weāre over a 1000 entries now) out online and in print make a āhow to read and writeā booklet in her variety
Current project with Carmen and @aventayolboada: write a paper about constituency in SMD Mixtec
Current projects with me myself and I (okay, not totally true, itās me and my student assistants): make a comparative Mixtec verb database make a comparative Mixtec pronoun database think about how to analyze them
You can use the read/write book that I worked on. I got the original from the Beathams in Coicoyan and then edited/added stuff. You could maybe use it as a template.
That would be called āreference trackingā, which would be a super interesting topic, too! If only the day had 30 hours I think @aventayolboada might have worked on that a bit.
Constituency refers to what units of organization can be identified in a language. Typically, people talk about morphemes, words, phrases, and clauses, but there is often no empirical ground to it, just intuition. So weāre applying some tests to SMD to see what units emerge from that. So boring linguistic stuff
I am working on putting together an online course on language documentation for speakers of Kawam (Pahoturi River family) in Papua New Guinea. Other team members include @2210 and @jray, with advising by @katelynnlindsey. The course isnāt ready to launch yet, but Iām hoping some of our students might want to join and contribute to this forum!
That would be awesome @cscanlon , please feel free to start additional threads and let me know if thereās any way I can support the conversation here. I donāt think we have any contributors from PNG yet, that would be a first!
I am finally done with nursing school and Iām back to doing linguistics. Which is more fun than nursing school. While I was supposed to be studying, I got three books edited and uploaded onto the Bloom website, two with audio, and a third will have audio by next month. I am also working on a cell phone game that anyone with an Android phone can beta test with me.
My other project is that Iām trying to get a paper accepted into WAIL which is a conference at UCSB. I wrote (most of) an abstract but Iām like so lost I donāt know if it is even close to good enough.
My third project is to take the anatomy drawings that I colored (by myself!) and put on 
get the San MartiĢn Duraznos Mixtec dictionary (weāre over a 1000 entries now) out online and in print
make a āhow to read and writeā booklet in her variety
think about how to analyze them 
I think 
Psst, hey peeps, for more on 
Kawam lang doc online course