Scope and content: The materials document Katie Sardinha's fieldwork on Kwak'wala during the period of 2014-2015, working with various Kwakwaka'wakw elders to study a range of semantic and syntactic topics. The collection includes original audio recordings and transcriptions of the recordings. Each transcriptions also contain a list of vocabulary encountered in the elicitation session. Main topics covered include the linguistic expression of causation, unaccusativity, psych verbs, intensifiers, and short narratives.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Violet Bracic, Mildred Child, Ruby Dawson Cranmer, and Katie Sardinha. Katie Sardinha's Kwak'wala Fieldwork Collection, SCL 2014-11, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2K0727F
Description: Elicitation on various topics, including: causal situations with a large variety of verbs; intentional versus unintentional and direct versus indirect causation; mental causation. Contains a semi-elicited narrative about committing something to memory.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Violet Bracic, Mildred Child, Sara Child, and Katie Sardinha. Kwak'wala elicitation on various topics, 2014-11.006, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2Z60M0R
Description: Elicitation on various topics, including: sleeping and dreaming; causal situations with various verbs; (in)direct causation and (un)intentional causation; events as causes; 'to support, lean on each other (e.g. while walking)'; causal events spanning more than one day; causatives with varying levels of 'control' of the causee. Also contains two short texts, one where Violet talks about a dream she had, and a semi-elicited narrative about a man named Eddie who keeps changing his mind about what colour to paint his house.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Violet Bracic, Mildred Child, and Katie Sardinha. Kwak'wala elicitation on various topics, 2014-11.007, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2TD9V8G
We acknowledge with respect the Ohlone people on whose traditional, ancestral, and unceded land we work and whose historical relationships with that land continue to this day.