Chol Ritual Language
with Terrence Lee Folmar, Heidi Altman, Ausencio Cruz Guzmán, and Bernardo Pérez Martínez
©1996 J. Kathryn Josserand and Nicholas A. Hopkins

Preparations

Funds were requested from FAMSI in September, 1994, to support this pilot study of ritual speech in Tila, Chiapas. Additional funding for salary support for the Principal Investigator was requested from the Committee on Faculty Research Support at Florida State University. (Additional funding for a two year project was solicited from the National Science Foundation; although this funding was not obtained, we were encouraged to reapply with changes in the proposal. For reasons discussed below, in the assessment of the field situation, this proposed research has been postponed for the time being.) Following the award of funds for the pilot study, field work was carried out during the summer of 1995, and analysis of field materials continues. Preparations for the project began in the academic year 1994-95; during two semesters (Fall, 1994 and Spring, 1995), the principal investigator directed the two future student field assistants in studies of the Chol language, with special attention to the variety of Chol spoken in the region of Tila, Chiapas.

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