R0811241

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• lat-session
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  • Name : R0811241
  • Title :
  • Date : 2008-11-24
  • descriptions
    • Description : Elicitation session on lexical aspect
  • Location
    • Continent : Africa
    • Country : Ghana
    • Region :
    • Address : Green house Vane
  • Project
    • Name : Avatime
    • Title : A Description and Documentation of Avatime
    • Id :
    • Contact
      • Name : Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina
      • Address : MPI for Psycholinguistics, P.O. Box 310, 6500 AH Nijmegen, The Netherlands
      • Email : saskia.vanputten@mpi.nl
      • Organisation : Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
    • descriptions
      • Description : 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).
  • Content
    • Genre : Unspecified
    • SubGenre : Unspecified
    • Task : Unspecified
    • Modalities : speech
    • Subject : lexical aspect
    • CommunicationContext
      • Interactivity : interactive
      • PlanningType : semi-spontaneous
      • Involvement : elicited
      • SocialContext : Controlled environment
      • EventStructure : Dialogue
      • Channel : Face to Face
    • Content_Languages
      • descriptions
        • Description : English was the language of discussions and elicitation, Avatime was the target language
      • Content_Language
        • Id : ISO639-3:eng
        • Name : English
        • Dominant : false
        • SourceLanguage : Unspecified
        • TargetLanguage : Unspecified
        • descriptions
          • Description : English is a Germanic (Indoeuropean) language spoken by many people throughout the world. It is the national language of Ghana.
      • Content_Language
        • Id : ISO639-3:avn
        • Name : Avatime
        • Dominant : true
        • SourceLanguage : Unspecified
        • TargetLanguage : Unspecified
        • descriptions
          • Description : Avatime (also called Siyase or Sideme) is one of a group of languages called Togo Remnant, Central Togo or preferably Ghana-Togo Mountain (GTM). These languages are usually classified as Kwa, Niger-Congo. Avatime is most closely related to Tafi and Nyangbo. Avatime is spoken in eight villages in the Volta Region of Ghana by approximately 10,000 speakers. The language is bordered to the west by Tafi and Nyangbo, to the north by Logba and to the east and south by Ewe. Ewe is the dominant language in the region. Most Avatime speakers also speak Ewe and those who have been to school speak English too. Ewe is mainly used in the first years of primary school, in church and to a certain extent on the market. English is used in the higher years of school. In events where important non-Avatimes are present, Ewe and English are used. Radio and television programmes are usually in English or Akan, and sometimes in Ewe. Avatime is only spoken in domestic and traditional domains of use. There is not yet a standard orthography for Avatime.
    • descriptions
      • Description : Rebecca asks Fo Yao to translate sentences from English into Avatime and asks him to make grammaticality judgements about sentences she has made. She also asks him to come up with contexts for when he would use particular sentences. This was all aimed at probing the lexical aspect properties of 20 Avatime verbs and forms a series of eliciation sessions conducted with Sammy, Mathias, Da Adzoyo and Fo Yao.
  • Actors
    • descriptions
      • Description : Rebecca questioned Fo Yao
    • Actor
      • Role : Researcher
      • Name : Rebecca
      • FullName : Rebecca Defina
      • Code : RD
      • FamilySocialRole : Unspecified
      • EthnicGroup :
      • BirthDate : 1983-04-15
      • Sex : Female
      • Education : University
      • Anonymized : false
      • Age
        • ExactAge
          • years : 25
          • months : 5
          • days : 18
      • Contact
        • Name : Rebecca Defina
        • Address : P.O. Box 310, 6500 AH Nijmegen, The Netherlands
        • Email : Rebecca.Defina@mpi.nl
        • Organisation : Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
      • descriptions
        • Description : Rebecca Defina is one of the researchers in this project. She did her bachelors in Linguistics and Mathematics at the University of Sydney and her research master in Linguistics at Leiden University. She started PhD studies at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in 2010. She grew up in Australia and now lives in the Netherlands.
      • Actor_Languages
        • descriptions
          • Description : Rebecca is a native speaker of (Australian) English. She studied French for one year at university, gaining basic understanding of the language. She has also acquired a basic knowledge of Dutch since moving to the Netherlands and a basic knowledge of Avatime during four months of fieldwork.
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:eng
          • Name : English
          • MotherTongue : true
          • PrimaryLanguage : true
          • descriptions
            • Description : English is a Germanic (Indoeuropean) language spoken by many people throughout the world. It is the national language of Ghana.
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:nld
          • Name : Dutch
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
          • descriptions
            • Description : Dutch is a Germanic (Indoeuropean) language spoken mainly in the Netherlands.
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:avn
          • Name : Avatime
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
          • descriptions
            • Description : Avatime (also called Siyase or Sideme) is one of a group of languages called Togo Remnant, Central Togo or preferably Ghana-Togo Mountain (GTM). These languages are usually classified as Kwa, Niger-Congo. Avatime is most closely related to Tafi and Nyangbo. Avatime is spoken in eight villages in the Volta Region of Ghana by approximately 10,000 speakers. The language is bordered to the west by Tafi and Nyangbo, to the north by Logba and to the east and south by Ewe. Ewe is the dominant language in the region. Most Avatime speakers also speak Ewe and those who have been to school speak English too. Ewe is mainly used in the first years of primary school, in church and to a certain extent on the market. English is used in the higher years of school. In events where important non-Avatimes are present, Ewe and English are used. Radio and television programmes are usually in English or Akan, and sometimes in Ewe. Avatime is only spoken in domestic and traditional domains of use. There is not yet a standard orthography for Avatime.
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:fra
          • Name : French
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
          • descriptions
            • Description : French is a Romance (Indoeuropean) language spoken by many people throughout the world. It is the national language of many West-African countries, including all neighbouring countries of Ghana.
    • Actor
      • Role : Consultant
      • Name : Yao
      • FullName : Walter Ray Ofasi
      • Code : WO
      • FamilySocialRole : Unspecified
      • EthnicGroup :
      • BirthDate : Unspecified
      • Sex : Male
      • Education : trained as a teacher
      • Anonymized : false
      • Age
        • ExactAge
          • years : 69
      • Contact :
      • descriptions
        • Description : 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.
      • Actor_Languages
        • descriptions
          • Description : Fo Yao speaks Avatime as his native language (Vane dialect). He also speaks Ewe and excellent English
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:avn
          • Name : Avatime
          • MotherTongue : true
          • PrimaryLanguage : true
          • descriptions
            • Description : Avatime (also called Siyase or Sideme) is one of a group of languages called Togo Remnant, Central Togo or preferably Ghana-Togo Mountain (GTM). These languages are usually classified as Kwa, Niger-Congo. Avatime is most closely related to Tafi and Nyangbo. Avatime is spoken in eight villages in the Volta Region of Ghana by approximately 10,000 speakers. The language is bordered to the west by Tafi and Nyangbo, to the north by Logba and to the east and south by Ewe. Ewe is the dominant language in the region. Most Avatime speakers also speak Ewe and those who have been to school speak English too. Ewe is mainly used in the first years of primary school, in church and to a certain extent on the market. English is used in the higher years of school. In events where important non-Avatimes are present, Ewe and English are used. Radio and television programmes are usually in English or Akan, and sometimes in Ewe. Avatime is only spoken in domestic and traditional domains of use. There is not yet a standard orthography for Avatime.
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:ewe
          • Name : Ewe
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
          • descriptions
            • Description : Ewe is a Kwa (Niger-Congo) language spoken in Ghana and Togo. It is the dominant language of the Volta Region of Ghana.
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:eng
          • Name : English
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
          • descriptions
            • Description : English is a Germanic (Indoeuropean) language spoken by many people throughout the world. It is the national language of Ghana.
  • Resources
    • MediaFile
      • Type : audio
      • Format : audio/x-wav
      • Size : 267587KB
      • Quality : Unspecified
      • RecordingConditions :
      • TimePosition
        • Start : Unspecified
        • End : Unspecified
      • descriptions
        • Description : The recording was made using a Marantz PMD flash recorder. The recording is mono, 16 bit and 48 kHz.
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