Historical information:In the mid-2000s, Andrew Garrett (UC Berkeley) and Susan Gehr (Karuk tribal linguist, archivist, and language program coordinator) worked together to create an online searchable version of William Bright and Gehr's "Karuk dictionary" (2005), in a website hosted by the UC Berkeley Linguistics Department. In 2008 and 2009, Gehr and Karuk language program coordinator Ruth Rouvier invited Garrett to work with Karuk community members on data management and archiving for language documentation. From this emerged a Karuk language documentation project involving collaboration among Berkeley linguists, the Karuk Tribe, and Karuk tribal members. The project was led at Berkeley by Line Mikkelsen and Andrew Garrett (and initially Alice Gaby, who subsequently left Berkeley); other participants included Karuk first-language speakers Lucille Albers, Sonny Davis, Vina Smith, and Charlie Thom Sr.; second-language speakers, learners, and teachers Tamara Alexander, LuLu Alexander, Crystal Richardson, and Florrine Super; and UC Berkeley graduate students Erik Hans Maier and Clare Sandy. Active documentation began in 2010 and continued through at least 2017. (Elders Thom, Albers, and Smith passed away in 2013, 2014, and 2015, respectively.) Among other research activities, this project involved extensive work with texts, including the creation of digital versions of legacy texts (e.g. all texts published in William Bright's 1957 "The Karok language"), transcribing new texts, and analyzing texts. The text analysis also involved preparation of a treebank of syntactically parsed Karuk sentences.
Scope and content:The collection consists mainly of field recordings made by Berkeley faculty and students with Karuk elders as well as younger language learners and second-language speakers. Most of the items in the collection are organized as follows: recordings made on a single research trip (on one or more days) are bundled together as digital assets of a single item. One item in the collection contains grant applications (e.g. for a National Science Foundation grant); another item contains handouts and posters from conference presentations by Berkeley project participants. The field recordings include a wide range of texts, text types, and methodologies (elicitation, free texts, responses to stimuli, discussion of legacy recordings); they cover a variety of linguistic topics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics).
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Sonny Davis, Crystal Richardson, Vina Smith, Charlie Thom Sr., LuLu Alexander, Tamara Alexander, Andrew Garrett, Erik Hans Maier, Line Mikkelsen, Clare S. Sandy, and Florrine Super. Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project, 2017-04, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2RR1WFX.
Description:"Elicitation on topics including: narration of ""The Three Bears"" using Carolyn ""Lyn"" Risling's ""The Three Bears"" coloring book (Published 1984 by ITEP, reprinted 2013); basket vocabulary; lexicalized words with durative aspect suffix '-tih'; miscellaneous vocabulary; verbs with past tense suffix '-at.' Also includes listening and translating of legacy recordings. "
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Karuk field recordings, April 2014, 2017-04.029, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24370.
Description:Elicitation on topics including: depictives and resultatives; palatalization in reduplication; body parts, meronymy, and metaphoric extensions; directionals; descriptions of various scenes using toys and props; use of modal circumfix 'kupa-...-ahi'; various vocabulary. Also includes listening and translation of legacy recordings.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Karuk field recordings, April 2015, 2017-04.034, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24375.
Description:Elicitation on topics including: narration of "The Three Bears" using Carolyn "Lyn" Risling's "The Three Bears" coloring book (Published 1984by ITEP, reprinted 2013); negation of verbal and non-verbal possessive clauses; various vocabulary and phrases. Includes a personal anecdote in Karuk from Vina Smith.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Karuk field recordings, January 2014, 2017-04.026, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24367.
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Description:Elicitation on topics including: weather, nominal affixes, diminutives and nominal affix ordering; permutations in preverbal order; quantifiers as predicates; scope of negation; basic sentences for word order and constituent questions for curriculum use; nominal morphology in compounding. Also includes listening and translation of legacy recordings.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Karuk field recordings, July 2014, 2017-04.030, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24371.
Description:"Elicitation on topics including: 'survival' phrases; weather and miscelleaneous vocabulary; use of pluractional/collective suffix '-naa'; word order; narration of ""The Three Bears"" using Carolyn ""Lyn"" Risling's ""The Three Bears"" coloring book (Published 1984 by ITEP, reprinted 2013). Also includings listening and translating of legacy recordings. "
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Karuk field recordings, March 2014, 2017-04.028, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24369.
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Description:Elicitation on topics including: information structure and cleft sentences; sluicing; compound accent; negative scope; food vocabulary; complements of verbs of knowing and thinking; pluractionality.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Karuk field recordings, March 2015, 2017-04.033, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24374.
Description:Elicitation on topics including: translation of 3sg verb forms w/o tense or aspect markers for default tense/aspect interpretation; quantified NPs and plural marking on N; various vocabulary. Also includes listening and translation of legacy recordings.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Karuk field recordings, November 2014, 2017-04.032, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24373.
Description:Elicitation on topics including: long words for accent/feet; universal quantification; tense; complex constituent questions; translation of Karuk sentences for tense defaults; wh-word extraction from embedded clauses. Also includes listening and translating of legacy recordings.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Karuk field recordings, October 2014, 2017-04.031, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24372.
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