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OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-684E-8 |
| Metadata | ||
| Title: | S0811171 | |
| A Description and Documentation of Avatime | ||
| Contributor (consultant): | Yao | |
| Contributor (researcher): | Saskia | |
| Coverage: | Ghana | |
| Date: | 2008-11-17 | |
| Description: | Elicitation session with Fo Yao looking into motion verbs. Transcribed by Saskia. | |
| The Avatime project aims to describe and document Avatime. The researchers involved in this project are Rebecca Defina and Saskia van Putten. The project included fieldwork in Ghana in 2008 and was completed in 2009. Outcomes of the project are: (1) audio and video recordings of different genres, of which 13,5 hours have been transcribed and annotated, (2) an Avatime-English wordlist, (3) grammar notes and (4) two Master's theses, one on the expression of motion in Avatime (Saskia van Putten) and one on aspect and mood in Avatime (Rebecca Defina). | ||
| Saskia presents Fo Yao with sentences in Avatime and asks him whether they are correct and if so what they mean. Fo Yao either accepts and repeats, changes or rejects the sentences. Sometimes he spontaneously comes up with a better way of saying the same thing. Sometimes Saskia asks for the Avatime translation of an English sentence. The goal of this session was to find out more about the syntactic properties and use of several motion verbs. | ||
| Some English is spoken, the language under discussion and used most is Avatime. | ||
| Saskia van Putten is one of the researchers in this project. She did her bachelor in Languages and Cultures of Africa and her research master in Linguistics, both at Leiden University. She started PhD studies at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in 2009. Saskia grew up and still lives in the Netherlands. | ||
| Fo Yao was one of our main consultants. He helped us transcribe and translate texts, gave us information about cultural practises and helped us in many long elicitation sessions. He was born in Vane and worked as a teacher before he retired. Sadly, he passed away in October 2009. | ||
| The recording was made using a Marantz PMD flash recorder. The recording is mono, 16 bit and 48 kHz. | ||
| Transcription of the session, made by Saskia. | ||
| This ELAN file only contains some notes and a few references to places in the session. The transcription was done in toolbox. | ||
| Format: | audio/x-wav | |
| text/x-toolbox-text | ||
| text/x-eaf+xml | ||
| Identifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-684E-8 | |
| Publisher: | Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina | |
| Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics | ||
| Subject: | Elicitation session | |
| Unknown | ||
| English language | ||
| Avatime language | ||
| Subject (ISO639): | eng | |
| avn | ||
| Type: | audio | |
OLAC Info |
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| Archive: | The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics | |
| Description: | http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl | |
| GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for OLAC format | |
| GetRecord: | Pre-generated XML file | |
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| OaiIdentifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-684E-8 | |
| DateStamp: | 2017-02-14 | |
| GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for simple DC format | |
Search Info | ||
| Citation: | Saskia (researcher); Yao (consultant). 2008-11-17. Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina. | |
| Terms: | area_Africa area_Europe country_GB country_GH iso639_avn iso639_eng | |
Inferred Metadata | ||
| Country: | United KingdomGhana | |
| Area: | AfricaEurope | |