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  1. Documentary Materials on Mam

    • Collection identifier: 2020-15
    • Primary contributors: Silvia Lucrecia Carrillo Godínez (consultant); Henry Sales (consultant, translator); Tessa Scott (researcher, donor)
    • Additional contributors: Geovany Aguilar García (consultant); Onísimo Basbaldo Aguilar Láinez (consultant); Ovilia Marina Chilel Ramírez (consultant); Nelly Idalia Nikte Maldonado Sales (consultant); Rebeca Martín Domingo (consultant); Jeidy Mayari Mendes Sales (consultant)
    • Languages: San Antonio Ixchiguán Mam; San Ildefonso Ixtahuacán Mam; San Juan Atitán Mam; San Rafael Petzal Mam; San Sebastián Huehuetenango Mam
    • Dates: 2020-
    • Historical information: Mam is a member of the Mamean branch of the Mayan language family, and it is spoken throughout western Guatemala, parts of Mexico, and in diaspora communities across North America. The varieties documented in this collection all belong to the Northern dialect region. Recordings were held over Zoom, and in San Juan Atitán, Guatemala. This fieldwork was conducted by Tessa Scott as part of her research as a graduate student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, with support from an Oswalt Endangered Language Grant.
    • Scope and content: Audio recordings of lexical and grammatical elicitation, subtitled video recordings of narrative texts, typed field notes, PDF scans of original field notes. The collection consists of materials on multiple varieties of Mam, including Mam spoken in the following towns in Guatemala: San Juan Atitán, San Antonio Ixchiguán, San Ildefonso Ixtahuacán, San Juan Atitán, San Rafael Petzal, and San Sebastián Huehuetenango. Most of the materials focus on San Juan Atitán Mam.
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Silvia Lucrecia Carrillo Godínez, Henry Sales, and Tessa Scott. Documentary Materials on Mam, 2020-15, California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X20G3J4X.

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    • Item identifier: 2020-15.002
    • Date: 10 Sep 2020
    • Contributors: Silvia Lucrecia Carrillo Godínez (consultant); Tessa Scott (researcher); Henry Sales (translator)
    • Language: San Juan Atitán Mam
    • Description: This is a one hour remote video interview held using Zoom. Henry Sales, a Mam speaker from San Juan Atitán, provides translation between English and Mam using Mam and Spanish. For the majority of the interview, Tessa asks consultant questions about language background and upbringing, and explains the idea of an archive and the methods for future interviews. Near minute 38:00 is an elicitation on nominal possession of several nouns. In this file bundle: 1 Zoom video/audio recording, 1 Zoom chat file 1 pdf of typed notes, and 1 .csv file with language background information.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Documentary Materials on Mam
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Consultant background and elicitation on nominal possession , 2020-15.002, in "Documentary Materials on Mam", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2CC0ZP9.
    • Item identifier: 2020-15.037
    • Date: 17 Sep 2021
    • Contributors: Silvia Lucrecia Carrillo Godínez (consultant); Tessa Scott (researcher)
    • Language: San Juan Atitán Mam
    • Description: This is a remote video interview held using Zoom.
      The elicitation focuses on the placement of adverbs and clauses embedded under "want".
      In this file bundle: 1 Zoom audio/video recording, 1 pdf of typed notes.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Documentary Materials on Mam
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Elicitation on adverbs and clauses embedded under "want", 2020-15.037, in "Documentary Materials on Mam", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2V69HM2.
    • Item identifier: 2020-15.038
    • Date: 24 Sep 2021
    • Contributors: Silvia Lucrecia Carrillo Godínez (consultant); Tessa Scott (researcher)
    • Language: San Juan Atitán Mam
    • Description: This is a remote video interview held using Zoom.
      The elicitation focuses on aspect marking.
      In this file bundle: 1 Zoom audio/video recording, 1 Zoom chat file, 1 pdf of typed notes.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Documentary Materials on Mam
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Elicitation on aspect marking, 2020-15.038, in "Documentary Materials on Mam", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2QF8RXS.
    • Item identifier: 2020-15.049
    • Date: 20 Jun 2022
    • Contributors: Silvia Lucrecia Carrillo Godínez (consultant); Tessa Scott (researcher)
    • Language: San Juan Atitán Mam
    • Place: San Juan Atitán, Huehuetenango, Guatemala
    • Description: This is an in-person interview.
      The elicitation focuses on the difference between distal (x=) and proximate (ma) aspect, the meaning and use of the imperfective (n=) aspect, and an in-depth discussion of demonstratives
      In this file bundle: 2 sequential audio recordings and 1 pdf of handwritten notes.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Documentary Materials on Mam
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Elicitation on aspect marking and demonstratives, 2020-15.049, in "Documentary Materials on Mam", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X298862H.
    • Item identifier: 2020-15.060
    • Date: 24 Feb 2023
    • Contributors: Silvia Lucrecia Carrillo Godínez (consultant); Tessa Scott (researcher)
    • Language: San Juan Atitán Mam
    • Description: This is a remote video interview held using Zoom.
      The elicitation focuses on demonstratives, verbs like "know" and "like" which cannot be embedded, and extraction of their subjects.
      In this file bundle: 1 Zoom audio/video recording, 1 pdf of typed notes.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Documentary Materials on Mam
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Elicitation on demonstratives and verbs "know" and "like", 2020-15.060, in "Documentary Materials on Mam", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2W37VB4.
    • Item identifier: 2020-15.048
    • Date: 17 Jun 2022
    • Contributors: Silvia Lucrecia Carrillo Godínez (consultant); Rebeca Martín Domingo (consultant); Tessa Scott (researcher)
    • Language: San Juan Atitán Mam
    • Place: San Juan Atitán, Huehuetenango, Guatemala
    • Description: This is an in-person interview.
      The elicitation focuses on the pronunciation of ejectives in initial positions, in-situ subject focus, and the distal aspect.
      In this file bundle: 2 audio recording files (.wav) and 1 pdf of handwritten notes.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Documentary Materials on Mam
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Elicitation on ejectives, subject focus, and distal aspect, 2020-15.048, in "Documentary Materials on Mam", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2F18XSF.
    • Item identifier: 2020-15.059
    • Date: 24 Feb 2023
    • Contributors: Silvia Lucrecia Carrillo Godínez (consultant); Tessa Scott (researcher)
    • Language: San Juan Atitán Mam
    • Description: This is a remote video interview held using Zoom.
      The elicitation focuses on object focus, imperatives, directionals. Towards the end is a sociolinguistic interview about the consultant's ideologies about language, culture, and society.
      In this file bundle: 1 Zoom audio/video recording, 1 pdf of hand written notes.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Documentary Materials on Mam
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Elicitation on imperatives and sociolinguistic interview on language ideologies, 2020-15.059, in "Documentary Materials on Mam", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X20R9NGP.
    • Item identifier: 2020-15.036
    • Date: 10 Sep 2021
    • Contributors: Silvia Lucrecia Carrillo Godínez (consultant); Tessa Scott (researcher)
    • Language: San Juan Atitán Mam
    • Description: This is a remote video interview held using Zoom.
      The elicitation focuses on intransitive objects, reflexives, and includes a few examples of verb ellipsis.
      In this file bundle: 1 Zoom audio/video recording, 1 Zoom chat file, 1 pdf of typed notes.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Documentary Materials on Mam
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Elicitation on intransitive objects and reflexives, 2020-15.036, in "Documentary Materials on Mam", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X200014R.
    • Item identifier: 2020-15.041
    • Date: 30 Oct 2021
    • Contributors: Silvia Lucrecia Carrillo Godínez (consultant); Tessa Scott (researcher)
    • Language: San Juan Atitán Mam
    • Description: This is a remote video interview held using Zoom.
      The elicitation focuses on intransitive subject marking with null aspect marking, and wh- questions on transitive subjects.
      In this file bundle: 1 Zoom audio/video recording, 1 Zoom chat file, 1 pdf of typed notes.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Documentary Materials on Mam
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Elicitation on intransitive subject marking and transitive subject extraction, 2020-15.041, in "Documentary Materials on Mam", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2B8575F.
    • Item identifier: 2020-15.040
    • Date: 22 Oct 2021
    • Contributors: Silvia Lucrecia Carrillo Godínez (consultant); Tessa Scott (researcher)
    • Language: San Juan Atitán Mam
    • Description: This is a remote video interview held using Zoom.
      The elicitation focuses on negation, relational nouns, and positionals.
      In this file bundle: 1 Zoom audio/video recording, 1 Zoom chat file, 1 pdf of typed notes.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Documentary Materials on Mam
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Elicitation on negation, relational nouns, and positionals, 2020-15.040, in "Documentary Materials on Mam", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2G15ZWC.
    • Item identifier: 2020-15.007
    • Date: 24 Sep 2020
    • Contributors: Silvia Lucrecia Carrillo Godínez (consultant); Tessa Scott (researcher); Henry Sales (translator)
    • Language: San Juan Atitán Mam
    • Description: This is a remote video interview held using Zoom. Henry Sales, a Mam speaker from San Juan Atitán, provides translation between English and Mam using Mam and Spanish.
      The elicitation focuses on nominal possession of several nouns, followed by imperfective and proximate verbal agreement paradigms of several intransitive verbs and "to see".
      In this file bundle: 1 pdf of typed notes.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Documentary Materials on Mam
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Elicitation on nominal possession and verbal agreement paradigms, 2020-15.007, in "Documentary Materials on Mam", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2QN65TQ.
    • Item identifier: 2020-15.039
    • Date: 01 Oct 2021
    • Contributors: Silvia Lucrecia Carrillo Godínez (consultant); Tessa Scott (researcher)
    • Language: San Juan Atitán Mam
    • Description: This is a remote video interview held using Zoom.
      The elicitation focuses on nonverbal predicate subject marking and examples of the emphatic clitic "san".
      In this file bundle: 1 Zoom audio/video recording, 1 Zoom chat file, 1 pdf of typed notes.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Documentary Materials on Mam
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Elicitation on nonverbal predicate subject marking and emphatics, 2020-15.039, in "Documentary Materials on Mam", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2KS6QKB.
    • Item identifier: 2020-15.058
    • Date: 21 Feb 2023
    • Contributors: Silvia Lucrecia Carrillo Godínez (consultant); Tessa Scott (researcher)
    • Language: San Juan Atitán Mam
    • Description: This is a remote video interview held using Zoom.
      The elicitation focuses on the overt o perfective and the null perfective clause types, as well as the the use of the number "two" to mean "some".
      In this file bundle: 1 Zoom audio/video recording, 1 Zoom chat file, 1 pdf of typed notes.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Documentary Materials on Mam
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Elicitation on perfective aspect and quantifiers, 2020-15.058, in "Documentary Materials on Mam", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X24J0D5H.
    • Item identifier: 2020-15.042
    • Date: 06 Jun 2022
    • Contributors: Silvia Lucrecia Carrillo Godínez (consultant); Rebeca Martín Domingo (consultant); Tessa Scott (researcher)
    • Language: San Juan Atitán Mam
    • Place: San Juan Atitán, Huehuetenango, Guatemala
    • Description: This is an in-person interview.
      The elicitation focuses on vowel qualities (length, glottalization) and the pronunciation of ejectives in final position.
      In this file bundle: 1 video/audio recording, 1 pdf of handwritten notes.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Documentary Materials on Mam
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Elicitation on phonology: vowels and ejectives, 2020-15.042, in "Documentary Materials on Mam", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X26H4GFQ.
    • Item identifier: 2020-15.051
    • Date: 01 Jul 2022
    • Contributors: Silvia Lucrecia Carrillo Godínez (consultant); Rebeca Martín Domingo (consultant); Tessa Scott (researcher)
    • Language: San Juan Atitán Mam
    • Place: San Juan Atitán, Huehuetenango, Guatemala
    • Description: This is an in-person interview.
      The elicitation focuses on polar questions and wh- questions on subjects, objects, and oblique arguments.
      In this file bundle: 1 audio recording, 1 pdf of handwritten notes, 1 pdf of typed notes.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Documentary Materials on Mam
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Elicitation on polar and wh-questions, 2020-15.051, in "Documentary Materials on Mam", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X21R6PJ5.
    • Item identifier: 2020-15.057
    • Date: 16 Feb 2023
    • Contributors: Silvia Lucrecia Carrillo Godínez (consultant); Tessa Scott (researcher)
    • Language: San Juan Atitán Mam
    • Description: This is a remote video interview held using Zoom.
      The elicitation focuses on second person plural subject and possessor marking, the possessive relational noun, and the use of classifiers as anaphors.
      In this file bundle: 1 Zoom audio/video recording, 1 Zoom chat file, 1 pdf of typed notes, and 3 pdfs of short glossed texts exemplifying the use of classifiers as anaphors.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Documentary Materials on Mam
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Elicitation on possession and classifiers as anaphors, 2020-15.057, in "Documentary Materials on Mam", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X28914WT.
    • Item identifier: 2020-15.026
    • Date: 19 Nov 2020
    • Contributors: Silvia Lucrecia Carrillo Godínez (consultant); Tessa Scott (researcher)
    • Language: San Juan Atitán Mam
    • Description: This is a remote video interview held using Zoom. The elicitation focuses on nonverbal subject marking, transitive object marking, and the overt "o" perfective versus the null perfective.
      In this file bundle: 1 pdf of typed notes.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Documentary Materials on Mam
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Elicitation on pronominal subjects and transitive objects, 2020-15.026, in "Documentary Materials on Mam", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X28G8JST.
    • Item identifier: 2020-15.030
    • Date: 01 Apr 2021
    • Contributors: Silvia Lucrecia Carrillo Godínez (consultant); Henry Sales (consultant); Tessa Scott (researcher)
    • Language: San Juan Atitán Mam
    • Description: This is a remote video interview held using Zoom.
      The elicitation focuses on reflexives, extended reflexives, and the details of coreference. This data was collected for a project by Justin Royer, investigating coreference in Mayan languages.
      The original notes are illegible, and thus the document included in this bundle is presented as a linguistic handout, organized by type of sentence and type of coreference. The document includes data from April 1 and April 6, 2021. The data is glossed and translated to English.
      Included in this bundle: 1 Zoom audio/video recording, 1 Zoom chat file, 1 pdf of analyzed notes.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Documentary Materials on Mam
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Elicitation on reflexives, 2020-15.030, in "Documentary Materials on Mam", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2RF5T2K.
    • Item identifier: 2020-15.031
    • Date: 06 Apr 2021
    • Contributors: Silvia Lucrecia Carrillo Godínez (consultant); Henry Sales (consultant); Tessa Scott (donor)
    • Language: San Juan Atitán Mam
    • Description: This is a remote video interview held using Zoom.
      The elicitation focuses on reflexives, extended reflexives, and the details of coreference. This data was collected for a project by Justin Royer, investigating coreference in Mayan languages.
      The original notes are illegible, and thus the document included in this bundle is presented as a linguistic handout, organized by type of sentence and type of coreference. The document includes data from April 1 and April 6, 2021. The data is glossed and translated to English.
      Included in this bundle: 1 Zoom audio/video recording, 1 Zoom chat file, 1 pdf of analyzed notes.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Documentary Materials on Mam
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Elicitation on reflexives, 2020-15.031, in "Documentary Materials on Mam", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2MP52B7.
    • Item identifier: 2020-15.034
    • Date: 23 Aug 2021
    • Contributors: Silvia Lucrecia Carrillo Godínez (consultant); Tessa Scott (donor)
    • Language: San Juan Atitán Mam
    • Description: This is a remote video interview held using Zoom.
      The elicitation focuses on reflexive constructions and the use of relational nouns to introduce oblique arguments.
      This session also includes corrections and checks to an intermediate grammar book. The book was created primarily by Tessa Scott and Cristina Méndez, two learners of Mam. The content of the books was then checked by native Mam speakers. The grammar book is included in this file bundle. It should be interpreted as learners' notes, not necessarily primary data.
      In this file bundle: 1 Zoom audio/video recording, 1 Zoom chat file, 1 pdf of typed notes, 1 intermediate grammar book
    • Relations to this item: 2020-15.035 references this Item
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Documentary Materials on Mam
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Elicitation on reflexives and grammar book collaboration, 2020-15.034, in "Documentary Materials on Mam", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X27H1HN0.
    • Item identifier: 2020-15.033
    • Date: 12 Apr 2021
    • Contributors: Silvia Lucrecia Carrillo Godínez (consultant); Henry Sales (consultant); Tessa Scott (researcher)
    • Language: San Juan Atitán Mam
    • Description: This is a remote video interview held using Zoom.
      The elicitation focuses on reflexives, wh- questions and their sentential answers (with focus).
      In this file bundle: 1 Zoom audio/video recording, 1 Zoom chat file, 1 pdf of typed notes.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Documentary Materials on Mam
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Elicitation on reflexives, wh-questions, and focus, 2020-15.033, in "Documentary Materials on Mam", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2C828CQ.
    • Item identifier: 2020-15.024
    • Date: 12 Nov 2020
    • Contributors: Silvia Lucrecia Carrillo Godínez (consultant); Tessa Scott (researcher); Henry Sales (translator)
    • Language: San Juan Atitán Mam
    • Description: This is a remote video interview held using Zoom. Henry Sales, a Mam speaker from San Juan Atitán, provides translation between English and Mam using Mam and Spanish.
      The elicitation focuses on object marking, wh- questions on transitive subjects, "when" clauses, and complements to "want"
      In this file bundle: 1 pdf of typed notes.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Documentary Materials on Mam
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Elicitation on transitive object marking, syntactic and split ergativity, 2020-15.024, in "Documentary Materials on Mam", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2HX1BQF.
    • Item identifier: 2020-15.015
    • Date: 10 Oct 2020
    • Contributors: Silvia Lucrecia Carrillo Godínez (consultant); Tessa Scott (researcher); Henry Sales (translator)
    • Language: San Juan Atitán Mam
    • Description: This is a remote video interview held using Zoom. Henry Sales, a Mam speaker from San Juan Atitán, provides translation between English and Mam using Mam and Spanish.
      The elicitation focuses on plural subject paradigm of il "to see", and the verb for "hit" inflected for different objects, as well as some wh- questions.
      In this file bundle: 1 Zoom audio/video file, 1 pdf of typed notes.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Documentary Materials on Mam
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Elicitation on verbal agreement paradigms and wh- questions, 2020-15.015, in "Documentary Materials on Mam", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2PN94PB.
    • Item identifier: 2020-15.056
    • Date: 10 Feb 2023
    • Contributors: Silvia Lucrecia Carrillo Godínez (consultant); Tessa Scott (researcher)
    • Language: San Juan Atitán Mam
    • Description: This is a remote video interview held using Zoom.
      The elicitation focuses on vowel qualities, classifier/adjective word order and nominal possession
      In this file bundle: 1 Zoom audio/video recording, 1 Zoom chat file, 1 pdf of typed notes.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Documentary Materials on Mam
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Elicitation on vowel qualities and nominal possessors and modifiers, 2020-15.056, in "Documentary Materials on Mam", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2D21WNM.