OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-A9C9-F |
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Title: | wake04-being-late_KAdj | |
A Description and Documentation of Avatime | ||
Contributor (recorder): | Sammy | |
Contributor (speaker): | Ganusah | |
Kofi | ||
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, Kofi Adjabeng comes in late, explains why and is then greeted. This recording has not been transcribed or translated. | |
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). | ||
Kofi Adjabeng came late to the wake keeping and explained why, Tsiami Atsu Ganusah greets and welcomes him. | ||
Only Avatime is spoken on this recording | ||
Atsu Ganusah and Kofi Adjabeng are both at the wake keeping and each talks before an audience of men that are also present. Sammy is part of the audience and records. | ||
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. | ||
Kofi Adjabeng lives in Vane. | ||
The recording was made using a Marantz PMD flash recorder. The recording is mono, 16 bit and 48 kHz. | ||
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 | |
Identifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-A9C9-F | |
Publisher: | Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina | |
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics | ||
Subject: | Discourse | |
Conversation | ||
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 | |
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OaiIdentifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-A9C9-F | |
DateStamp: | 2017-02-14 | |
GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for simple DC format | |
Search Info | ||
Citation: | Sammy (recorder); Ganusah (speaker); Kofi (speaker). 2008-09-26. Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina. | |
Terms: | area_Africa country_GH iso639_avn | |
Inferred Metadata | ||
Country: | Ghana | |
Area: | Africa |