The Pahka'anil Text Project is a collaborative project between the Pakanapul Language Team (of the Tübatulabal Tribe), Dr. Michael Ahland, and his students at California State University, Long Beach. The goals of the project are twofold: 1) to examine the discourse and morphosyntactic features of the Pahka’anil language and 2) to support the Pakanapul Language Team's teaching efforts by providing both audio and visual deliverables related to narrative discourse in the Pahka'anil language. The project began in summer 2017 and has focused on recording, time-aligning, and analyzing narrative texts that were originally transcribed by Charles Voegelin.1 & 2 The project has begun to expand to include other texts not in Voegelin's original published set. The texts are time-aligned with our digital recordings and fully annotated in ELAN and then re-worked into a more user-friendly HTML format for the Pahka'anil language teachers, the local community, scholars, and for all others who may be interested. Selected scholarly output related to the Pahka'anil Text Project can be found by clicking the Research link above.
As the texts have been finalized and added to our growing corpus, a search engine and lexis have been developed by our website designer and adjunct faculty member, Cem Demir, to allow users to easily access and search various fields and forms across the texts.
The interlinearization of morphology (parsing and glossing) within each text largely follows an unpublished interlinearized database that Lindsay Marean completed and very graciously shared with the CSULB team. Marean’s glossing follows much of the terminology found in Voegelin’s 1935 grammatical description. The CSULB team has updated the glossing to more accurately represent their own analytical work, to maintain consistency across recent publications and conference papers, and to bring the annotations and abbreviations more into line with conventions found in the Leipzig Glossing Rules as well as more common practice in the International Journal of American Linguistics. The practical orthographic representation used for Pahka'anil is the system currently in use by the Pakanapul Language Team.
If you have questions or comments, you are welcome to contact Dr. Michael Ahland.
