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 November 2018 and May 2019. The course was taught by Prof. Lev Michael, and the language consultants were Brenda Calmo Jerónimo, Gerardo Jerónimo Lorenzo, and Rudy Pablo. 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 phonetics, and of narrative texts.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Brenda Calmo Jerónimo, Gerardo Jerónimo Lorenzo, Rudy Pablo, Schuyler Laparle, Tyler Lemon, Lev Michael, Martha Schwarz, and Wesley dos Santos. Berkeley Field Methods: Todos Santos de Cuchamatán Mam, 2018-37, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2862DV1.
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 2018-21 for the materials on San Pedro Necta Mam.
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Suggested citation: Grammatical elicitation: Agent focus with ditransitive verbs and contrastive focus, 2018-37.107, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Todos Santos de Cuchamatán Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2F769ZJ.
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Suggested citation: Grammatical elicitation: Agent focus with nouns and pronouns, 2018-37.106, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Todos Santos de Cuchamatán Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2K072NT.
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Suggested citation: Grammatical elicitation: Anaphoric uses of classifiers and past tense, 2018-37.036, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Todos Santos de Cuchamatán Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2M9071K.
Description:Questions and answer pairs with existentials to see if the presence of a classifier forces either an existential or locative interpretation. Possession was also tested to see if whether the subject possesses the object or someone else does affects the use of a classifier.
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Suggested citation: Grammatical elicitation: Classifier with existentials and possession, 2018-37.058, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Todos Santos de Cuchamatán Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2RV0M2B.
Description:Noun 'dog' with and without the animal classifier 'xal' to see what the presence or absence of the classifier does to the meaning of a DP. Also includes running a "meat grinder" test on 'dog' to see how the 'mass of dog' interpretation works with the classifier. No recording due to issues with the recorder during the session.
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Suggested citation: Grammatical elicitation: Classifiers, 2018-37.045, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Todos Santos de Cuchamatán Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2FJ2F6X.
Description:Various sentences with and without classifiers to test for the distribution of classifiers and whether their presence or absence leads to a difference in meaning
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Suggested citation: Grammatical elicitation: Classifiers, 2018-37.054, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Todos Santos de Cuchamatán Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X28W3BQP.
Description:Includes some lexical elicitation of foods and terms for humans. Food was tested in possessive constructions, and human classifiers via pronoun replacement.
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Suggested citation: Grammatical elicitation: Classifiers for food and human age and gender, 2018-37.033, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Todos Santos de Cuchamatán Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X20K26XR.
Description:Elicitation of classifiers that refer to possessors that are bound and unbound by subject quantifier DPs to determine if being (un)bound affects the use of a classifier; a short narrative to see where classifiers are used
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Suggested citation: Grammatical elicitation: Classifiers with (un)bound referents, short narrative (TJL), 2018-37.070, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Todos Santos de Cuchamatán Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X26W98GC.
Description:Using the verb 'hit' and animate subject ('woman') and object ('man') on the one hand and animate subject ('woman') and inanimate object ('tree') on the other
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Suggested citation: Grammatical elicitation: Confirmative, completive, selective, and corrective focus, 2018-37.064, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Todos Santos de Cuchamatán Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X20C4T51.
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Suggested citation: Grammatical elicitation: Confirmative, completive, selective, and corrective focus, 2018-37.067, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Todos Santos de Cuchamatán Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2M61HN9.
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Suggested citation: Grammatical elicitation: Confirmative, corrective, selective, and completive focus, 2018-37.076, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Todos Santos de Cuchamatán Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2FF3QRR.
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Suggested citation: Grammatical elicitation: Contrastive focus, 2018-37.060, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Todos Santos de Cuchamatán Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2HD7T2T.
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Suggested citation: Grammatical elicitation: Contrastive focus, 2018-37.079, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Todos Santos de Cuchamatán Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2251GJ7.
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Suggested citation: Grammatical elicitation: Contrastive topic and exhaustive focus, 2018-37.049, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Todos Santos de Cuchamatán Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2XK8CZX.
Description:Verbs 'be good', 'be hot', 'bother', 'say', 'tire' and 'flee', taken from England's (1983:116) grammar, were elicited; then the detransitivizer (ibid.) was attached to them for grammaticality judgment.
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Suggested citation: Grammatical elicitation: Detransitivizer -ta, 2018-37.096, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Todos Santos de Cuchamatán Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2VH5M7Z.
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Suggested citation: Grammatical elicitation: Focus, 2018-37.053, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Todos Santos de Cuchamatán Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2DN43FD.
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Suggested citation: Grammatical elicitation: Focus, 2018-37.042, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Todos Santos de Cuchamatán Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2TT4PC0.
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Suggested citation: Grammatical elicitation: Focus with transitive verbs, 2018-37.085, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Todos Santos de Cuchamatán Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X28P5XWN.
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Suggested citation: Grammatical elicitation: Individual level predication with occupations, 2018-37.022, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Todos Santos de Cuchamatán Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2DR2SVB.
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Suggested citation: Grammatical elicitation: Information focus, 2018-37.039, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Todos Santos de Cuchamatán Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2736P8W.
Description:Scenarios were created to see if the use of classifiers is affected by the subject binding a possessor or not, and various classifiers were combined with the noun [wuja] 'friend' to get a sense of the total inventory of classifiers and what they refer to.
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Suggested citation: Grammatical elicitation: Nominal classifiers, 2018-37.061, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Todos Santos de Cuchamatán Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2CN72BG.
Description:Elicitation of existential questions and answers with and without possession, predicative contexts, and indefinites with and without negation to test for the presence or absence of noun classifiers
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Suggested citation: Grammatical elicitation: Nominal classifiers in existentials, indefinites, predicative contexts, and under negation, 2018-37.091, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Todos Santos de Cuchamatán Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2H70D68.
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Suggested citation: Grammatical elicitation: Nominal classifiers with demonstratives, possessives, locatives, and adjectives, 2018-37.099, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Todos Santos de Cuchamatán Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2G73C2W.
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Suggested citation: Grammatical elicitation: Nominal classifiers with indefinites, wh-questions, and unique definites, 2018-37.104, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Todos Santos de Cuchamatán Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2TH8K3K.
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Suggested citation: Grammatical elicitation: Possessive paradigm of 'fire', 2018-37.097, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Todos Santos de Cuchamatán Mam", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2QR4VH7.
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