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, 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: causatives, passives, and purpose clauses, by-phrases, and the adverb meaning 'by itself'; indirect causation; prevention; semantic reflexivity.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Kwak'wala elicitation on causatives and unaccusativity 1, 2014-11.002, in "Katie Sardinha's Kwak'wala Fieldwork Collection", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2G73BN3.
Description:Elicitation on various topics, including: instrument subjects; 'by itself'; complex causal events; events as causes; 'let' causatives; 'to do on purpose'; negative events as causes; 'see' vs. 'show'; causatives of 'remember' and 'forget'; 'understand' and 'explain'; the expression of connected events, signs, and signals.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Kwak'wala elicitation on causatives and unaccusativity 2, 2014-11.003, in "Katie Sardinha's Kwak'wala Fieldwork Collection", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2BG2KZT.
Description:Elicitation on various topics, including: sociative causation; 'to work'; 'to know from experience'; 'to make'; causatives of ditransitives; translations of English causal connectives; bodily process verbs and 'by itself'; 'cause to forget'; 'alone'; 'by itself' in non-matrix positions; weather verbs.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Kwak'wala elicitation on causatives and unaccusativity 3, 2014-11.004, in "Katie Sardinha's Kwak'wala Fieldwork Collection", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X26Q1V62.
Description:Translations and judgments in context involving the Kwak'wala intensifiers olək'ala, tluma, and walas, as well as a few judgments involving gwalha 'to stop, finish'. We look at whether these predicates can felicitously modify a range of predicates in context.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Kwak'wala elicitation on intensifiers, 2014-11.008, in "Katie Sardinha's Kwak'wala Fieldwork Collection", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2PN93KK.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Kwak'wala elicitation on the linguistic expression of causation, 2014-11.001, in "Katie Sardinha's Kwak'wala Fieldwork Collection", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2KW5D0N.
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: Kwak'wala elicitation on various topics, 2014-11.006, in "Katie Sardinha's Kwak'wala Fieldwork Collection", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2Z60M0R.
Description:Elicitation of various topics, including: verbs of saying; causal situations with the verbs 'to sneeze', 'to laugh', and 'to run'; ambiguity with 'almost'. Violet tells a short story, in Kwak'wala and English, about a time she traveled with some school children to Knight's Inlet, stopping off at Village Island. Also includes a short semi-elicited text about a woman named Betty, related to remembering.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Kwak'wala elicitation on various topics, 2014-11.005, in "Katie Sardinha's Kwak'wala Fieldwork Collection", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X22Z13GQ.
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: Kwak'wala elicitation on various topics, 2014-11.007, in "Katie Sardinha's Kwak'wala Fieldwork Collection", 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.