Category: A Day in the Field
A Day in the Field – Haoliang Zhao
Today on the ELAR blog, ELDP grantee and ELAR depositor Haoliang Zhao tells us about his fieldwork in Tibet where he works on documenting Smar-skad. The recorded materials will be made available in the ELAR collection Documentation of Smar-skad spoken in Dpal-ri, Brag-gyab: language and culture. Please tell us a bit about where you are […]
A Day in the Field – Henrike Frye
Today on the ELAR blog, ELDP grantee and ELAR depositor Henrike Frye tells us about her fieldwork in Papua New Guinea where she works on documenting the Simbali language. The recorded materials will be made available in the ELAR collection The Simbali Baining of Papua New Guinea: A community-based documentation project. Please tell us a […]
A Day in the Field: Martha Tsutsui Billins
Today, Martha Tsutsui Billins from ELAR is on the blog discussing her current fieldwork in Amami Oshima, Japan. Martha is doing a Ph.D. at SOAS, University of London in Linguistics, where she is researching honourifics in Southern Amami Oshima, a Ryukyuan language spoken in Japan. Please tell us a bit about where you are doing your […]
A Day in the Field: Jean Rohleder
Today on the ELAR blog, Jean Rohleder who does fieldwork in New Caledonia talks about his research and his field trip he took late last year. Please tell us a bit about where you are doing your fieldwork. New Caledonia, the “Island of Eternal Spring”, is home to about 270,000 people, on 18,000 km² (roughly […]
A Day in the Field: Azeb Amha
Today on the ELAR blog, depositor and ELDP grantee Azeb Amha gives readers some insight into the daily routine of her documentation project, documentation of house construction and terrace farming in Zargulla, an endangered Omotic language. 1. Please tell us a bit about where you are doing your fieldwork. My fieldwork is based in ɗimalle […]
A Day in the Field- Andrew Harvey
Andrew Harvey is an ELDP grantee documenting Gorwaa, (South-Cushitic, Afro-Asiatic), a previously undocumented language, spoken by approximately 15,000 individuals in Babati District, Manyara Region, Tanzania. Please tell us a bit about where you are doing your fieldwork. The area where my fieldwork is being carried out has traditionally been inhabited by the people of the […]
A Day in the Field- Santiago Durante
Santiago Durante is an ELDP grantee researching Ayoreo (ISO639-3:ayo), an endangered language spoken in Paraguay and Bolivia. For our first A Day in the Field post, Santiago has graciously allowed us a peek into his daily routine while he’s on fieldwork. Please tell us a bit about where you are doing your fieldwork. I am […]