Historical information:This collection consists of materials produced by students of the graduate-level field methods course in the Department of Linguistics at UC Berkeley between September 2018 and October 2018. The course was taught by Prof. Lev Michael, and the language consultant was Wendy Ruiz. All other contributors listed as researchers were students in the course.
Scope and content:Sound recordings and notes from in-class and small-group elicitation sessions pertaining to lexicon, grammar, and phonology.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Wendy Ruiz, Schuyler Laparle, Tyler Lemon, Lev Michael, Martha Schwarz, and Wesley dos Santos. Berkeley Field Methods: San Pedro Necta Mam, 2018-21, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X25T3HWC.
Associated materials:This course began with a focus on San Pedro Necta Mam, but transitioned midway through to a focus on Todos Santos de Cuchamatán Mam. See 2018-37 for the materials on that variety.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Conversation, 2016-04.002, in "Mam Sound Recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2DN433X.
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Preferred citation: Grammatical elicitation: Complex predication, 2018-21.036, in "Berkeley Field Methods: San Pedro Necta Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X29C6VTH.
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Preferred citation: Grammatical elicitation: Copula constructions with 'happy', 2018-21.023, in "Berkeley Field Methods: San Pedro Necta Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2028PXN.
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Preferred citation: Grammatical elicitation: Free pronouns and verbal agreement paradigms, 2018-21.019, in "Berkeley Field Methods: San Pedro Necta Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2H41PT0.
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Preferred citation: Grammatical elicitation: Individual level predication in various tenses, 2018-21.032, in "Berkeley Field Methods: San Pedro Necta Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2TB159X.
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Preferred citation: Grammatical elicitation: Locative predication, 2018-21.028, in "Berkeley Field Methods: San Pedro Necta Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2BC3WZW.
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Preferred citation: Grammatical elicitation: Main clause verbal agreement, 2018-21.024, in "Berkeley Field Methods: San Pedro Necta Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2V986FR.
Description:Pronouns as possessors and possessees are a body part ('hand') and an object ('pen'); possessive noun phrases in object position in a simple sentence with verb 'see'; possession in noun phrases with nouns as possessor ('woman') and possesee ('daughter')
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Preferred citation: Grammatical elicitation: Possession in noun phrases, 2018-21.040, in "Berkeley Field Methods: San Pedro Necta Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2SF2TKG.
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Preferred citation: Grammatical elicitation: Possessive constructions, 2018-21.027, in "Berkeley Field Methods: San Pedro Necta Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2G44NQ2.
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Preferred citation: Grammatical elicitation: Possessive constructions, 2018-21.022, in "Berkeley Field Methods: San Pedro Necta Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X23T9FMM.
Description:Possessor-possessee constructions for words 'plate', 'plant', 'father', 'dog', 'wife', 'eye', 'apple', 'fire', where the possessor is always a pronoun; possessive predicative constructions for the same words
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Preferred citation: Grammatical elicitation: Possessive constructions, 2018-21.025, in "Berkeley Field Methods: San Pedro Necta Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2QJ7FQ1.
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Preferred citation: Grammatical elicitation: Possessive constructions, 2018-21.029, in "Berkeley Field Methods: San Pedro Necta Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X26M357Z.
Description:Possession within the NP for 'mouth', 'knife' and 'potato' with examples for possessors non-constratively/constrastively focused and in object position
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Preferred citation: Grammatical elicitation: Possessive constructions, 2018-21.033, in "Berkeley Field Methods: San Pedro Necta Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2PN941T.
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Preferred citation: Grammatical elicitation: Predication of height, size; possession, 2018-21.039, in "Berkeley Field Methods: San Pedro Necta Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2X34VV1.
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Preferred citation: Grammatical elicitation: Prepositional phrases, 2018-21.045, in "Berkeley Field Methods: San Pedro Necta Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X24M92XB.
Description:Relative clauses with an animate argument as the head of the RC in the position of direct object (verb 'see'), indirect object (verbs 'send' and 'give'), possessor (verb 'borrow') and locative (verb 'sleep'); also includes 11 noun phrases to test the semantics of a classifier [twits] meaning 'flat'
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Preferred citation: Grammatical elicitation: Relative clauses, classifier, 2018-21.043, in "Berkeley Field Methods: San Pedro Necta Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2D50KCZ.
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Preferred citation: Grammatical elicitation: Selected verb paradigms for possible onset clusters, 2018-21.038, in "Berkeley Field Methods: San Pedro Necta Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X21V5CBD.
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Preferred citation: Grammatical elicitation: Stage-level predication with emotions and temperature, 2018-21.035, in "Berkeley Field Methods: San Pedro Necta Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2F47MJ7.
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Preferred citation: Grammatical elicitation: Subject and object relative clauses, 2018-21.041, in "Berkeley Field Methods: San Pedro Necta Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2NP22V4.
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Preferred citation: Grammatical elicitation: Tense and aspect, 2018-21.042, in "Berkeley Field Methods: San Pedro Necta Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2HX1B3C.
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Preferred citation: Grammatical elicitation: Tense and aspect of 'eat', 2018-21.044, in "Berkeley Field Methods: San Pedro Necta Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X28C9TNP.
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Preferred citation: Grammatical elicitation: Verb paradigms, lexical items, 2018-21.037, in "Berkeley Field Methods: San Pedro Necta Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X25M643K.
Description:Elicitation of verbal agreement paradigms for a possible unergative 'run', a possible unaccusative 'fall' and a monotransitive 'carry' in the present tense
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Preferred citation: Grammatical elicitation: Verbal agreement paradigms, 2018-21.030, in "Berkeley Field Methods: San Pedro Necta Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X22V2DH7.
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Preferred citation: Grammatical elicitation: Verbal agreement paradigms, 2018-21.031, in "Berkeley Field Methods: San Pedro Necta Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2Z31X18.
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Preferred citation: Grammatical elicitationː Predicative copula constructions, emotions, 2018-21.026, in "Berkeley Field Methods: San Pedro Necta Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2KW5DFG.
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