OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-772B-6

Metadata
Title:		past_YA
		A Description and Documentation of Avatime
Contributor (consultant):		Yunis
Contributor (interviewer):		Sammy
Contributor (translator):		Wisdom
Coverage:		Ghana
Date:		2008-10-02
Description:		This story was recorded in Amedzofe at a meeting with 10 elderly people. The 10 people were divided into two groups and we talked with each group for an hour. In the first session Sammy interviewed the first five people about what has changed since they were young and what they think Amedzofe will be like in the future. In the second session, Sammy asked the other five people to tell their life stories and then asked if there were other stories or folk tales they could tell. This story was part of the first session in Amedzofe. Yunis talks about what has changed since when she was young.
		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).
		Yunis tells a story about what has changed since she was young. Sammy then asks questions, which she answers. Wisdom then translates it to English.
		The story is told in Avatime, Sammy asks questions in Avatime, Wisdom translates to English.
		Yunis tells a story, Sammy asks her some questions which she answers. Wisdom translates the story into English. Also present were: Saskia, Rebecca, C.K. and Judith.
		Sammy was one of our main informants for this project. He was born in Vane and has lived there most of his life. He has also spent some time in Accra. He speaks good English and Ewe.
		Wisdom was our contact person in the village Amedzofe and organised a gathering with a group of elders for us. He grew up in Amedzofe and has spent 11 years travelling through other African countries as a missionary. He has now trained as a priest.
		Yunis was one of the people we interviewed in Amedzofe on October 2, 2008. She lives in Amedzofe.
		The recording was made using a Marantz PMD flash recorder. The recording is mono, 16 bit and 48 kHz.
		The recording was made using a JVC Everio digital video camera. The file is saved in MPEG2 format with 3400 kbps video encoding rate and 256 kbps audio encoding rate. The aspect ratio is 4:3 and the size of the video is 352 x 576. It is recorded in PAL format.
		This story was told within a session in which 4 people told stories. The stories recorded in this session, in the order in which they were told, are: - past_CT - past_CD - past_YA - past_JT - future_CD - future_YA - future_JT For each of these stories, there is an audio recording, a video recording and an IMDI metadata file with the same name.
Format:		audio/x-wav
		video/x-mpeg2
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-772B-6
Publisher:		Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina
		Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Subject:		Discourse
		Narrative
		past
		English language
		Avatime language
Subject (ISO639):		eng
		avn
Type:		audio
		video
OLAC Info
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
OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-772B-6
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Sammy (interviewer); Wisdom (translator); Yunis (consultant). 2008-10-02. 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