OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-775F-C

Metadata
Title:		future_YA
		A Description and Documentation of Avatime
Contributor (consultant):		Yunis
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 how she thinks things will be in 30 years.
		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 talks about how she thinks things will be in 30 years. Wisdom translates into English. The English translation is only included on the audio file.
		The story is told in Avatime and then translated into English.
		Yunis tells her story, Wisdom translates it. Also present are Sammy, Rebecca, Saskia, Judith and C.K.
		Wisdom was our contact person in the village Amedzofe and organized 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 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. The video recording does not include the English translation of the story.
		The recording was made using a Marantz PMD flash recorder. The recording is mono, 16 bit and 48 kHz. The audio recording includes the English translation of the story.
		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:		video/x-mpeg2
		audio/x-wav
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-775F-C
Publisher:		Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina
		Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Subject:		Discourse
		Narrative
		future
		Avatime language
		English language
Subject (ISO639):		avn
		eng
Type:		video
		audio
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_00-0000-0000-0016-775F-C
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		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