OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-A9BE-F |
Metadata | ||
Title: | wake15-closing | |
A Description and Documentation of Avatime | ||
Contributor: | Yao | |
Contributor (annotator): | Saskia | |
Contributor (recorder): | Sammy | |
Contributor (speaker): | Ganusah | |
Coverage: | Ghana | |
Date: | 2008-09-26 | |
Description: | This recording was made at a wake keeping the night before the funeral of Geoffrey Adjabeng, a clan leader. The men gathered at one of the meeting places in the village and spent the night giving speeches, singing and drinking. This event was recorded by Sammy. No outside observer was present. In this recording, Tsiami Atsu Ganusah closes the wake keeping. The recording has been transcribed, translated and annotated by Fo Yao and 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). | ||
Tsami Atsu Ganusah tells the people who are at the wake keeping that they are allowed to leave, the wake keeping has closed. | ||
Only Avatime is spoken on this recording. | ||
Tsiami Atsu Ganusah speaks. Sammy records. The recording has been transcribed and translated by Fo Yao and annotated by Saskia. | ||
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. | ||
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. | ||
Atsu Ganusah lives in Vane and is the linguist of Tsadome, the 'downtown' part of Vane. The linguist is the spokesperson of the chief. | ||
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. | ||
Annotation of the recording, made by Saskia based on transcription and translation by Fo Yao. | ||
Toolbox file created from ELAN file in which recording was annotated. | ||
This is one of a series of recordings of a wake-keeping the night before a funeral. Here is a list of all recordings made at this event: - wake01-bring-body_WB - wake02-song - wake03-song - wake04-being-late_KAdj - wake05-conv-greetings - wake06-gather_AG - wake07-speeches-misc - wake08-songs-conv - wake09-song - wake10-song - wake11-song - wake12-women-come - wake13-conv-greetings - wake14-thanks - wake15-closing_AG The funeral itself has also been recorded, see 'funeral'. | ||
Format: | audio/x-wav | |
text/x-eaf+xml | ||
text/x-toolbox-text | ||
Identifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-A9BE-F | |
Publisher: | Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina | |
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics | ||
Subject: | Discourse | |
Narrative | ||
wake_keeping | ||
Avatime language | ||
Subject (ISO639): | 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 | |
OAI Info |
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OaiIdentifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-A9BE-F | |
DateStamp: | 2017-02-14 | |
GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for simple DC format | |
Search Info | ||
Citation: | Saskia (annotator); Sammy (recorder); Ganusah (speaker); Yao. 2008-09-26. Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina. | |
Terms: | area_Africa country_GH iso639_avn | |
Inferred Metadata | ||
Country: | Ghana | |
Area: | Africa |