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    • Collection identifier: 2021-10
    • Primary contributors: Achille Massoma (consultant); Roslyn Burns (researcher); Toni Cook (researcher); Thera Crane (researcher); Rachele Delucchi (researcher); Stefanie Fauconnier (researcher); Greg Finley (researcher, donor); Nadine Grimm (researcher); Larry M. Hyman (researcher, donor); Florian Lionnet (researcher, donor); Clare S. Sandy (researcher, donor)
    • Language: Abo (abb)
    • Dates: Aug 2010-Apr 2011
    • 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 August 2010 and April 2011 (Linguistics 240A/B). The course was taught by Prof. Larry Hyman, with then graduate student Thera Crane as assistant, and the language consultant was Achille Massoma. The students in the class were Roslyn Burns, Toni Cook, Rachele Delucchi, Stefanie Fauconnier, Greg Finley, Nadine Grimm (then Borchardt), and Florian Lionnet. Abo is also known as Bankon, and is a Bantu language of Cameroon.
    • Scope and content: Audio recordings of in-class and small group elicitation sessions (Series 001), informal notes and descriptive write-ups (Series 002), and original field notes and handouts (Series 003). Descriptions in item-level metadata were extracted from a metadata spreadsheet maintained for most of the duration of the course by students.
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Achille Massoma, Roslyn Burns, Toni Cook, Thera Crane, Rachele Delucchi, Stefanie Fauconnier, Greg Finley, Nadine Grimm, Larry M. Hyman, Florian Lionnet, and Clare S. Sandy. Berkeley Field Methods: Abo, 2021-10, California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2V9870B.

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    • Item identifier: 2021-10.001.048
    • Date: 22 Oct 2010
    • Contributors: Achille Massoma (consultant); Nadine Grimm (researcher); Larry M. Hyman (donor)
    • Language: Abo (abb)
    • Place: Berkeley, CA
    • Description: Checking noun class of 'bird' with what Spellenberg has in his dictionary.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Berkeley Field Methods: Abo
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Class elicitation session on 'bird' noun classes, 2021-10.001.048, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Abo", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2NG4PJ7.
    • Item identifier: 2021-10.001.034
    • Date: 08 Oct 2010
    • Contributors: Achille Massoma (consultant); Stefanie Fauconnier (researcher); Larry M. Hyman (donor)
    • Language: Abo (abb)
    • Place: Berkeley, CA
    • Description: 'Elegant/beautiful': prefixes.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Berkeley Field Methods: Abo
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Class elicitation session on adjectives and prefixes, 2021-10.001.034, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Abo", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2FX78CS.
    • Item identifier: 2021-10.001.008
    • Date: 10 Sep 2010
    • Contributors: Achille Massoma (consultant); Toni Cook (researcher); Clare S. Sandy (researcher); Larry M. Hyman (donor)
    • Language: Abo (abb)
    • Place: Berkeley, CA
    • Description: Singular and plural demonstratives with 'man', 'chicken', 'bamboo', 'cup', 'child', 'wife', 'elephant', 'body', 'animal', 'rope', 'trap', 'goat', 'crab', 'river', 'plantain', 'heart', and 'chief'.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Berkeley Field Methods: Abo
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Class elicitation session on demonstratives, 2021-10.001.008, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Abo", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2TB15V3.
    • Item identifier: 2021-10.001.039
    • Date: 11 Oct 2010
    • Contributors: Achille Massoma (consultant); Toni Cook (researcher); Clare S. Sandy (researcher); Larry M. Hyman (donor)
    • Language: Abo (abb)
    • Place: Berkeley, CA
    • Description: "This <noun> is a <noun>", "these <nouns> are <nouns>"; acceptability of 'aki' as demonstrative with some nouns that can take 'abi'; "This is a <noun>", "These are <nouns>", "This <noun> is good", "These <nouns> are good"; "This was a bird".
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Berkeley Field Methods: Abo
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Class elicitation session on demonstratives, 2021-10.001.039, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Abo", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2T43S1G.
    • Item identifier: 2021-10.001.033
    • Date: 08 Oct 2010
    • Contributors: Achille Massoma (consultant); Larry M. Hyman (researcher, donor)
    • Language: Abo (abb)
    • Place: Berkeley, CA
    • Description: Checking tones of verbs/some new nouns: 'beat', 'beg', 'begin', 'bite', 'break', 'branch' (v?), 'buy', 'call', 'read' (=fry), 'carve', 'catch', 'have', 'choose', 'arrive/come', 'want' ('I want..'), 'cough', 'count', 'cry', 'dance', 'descend', 'die', 'sand', 'tomb(s)', 'enter', 'feed', 'make fall', 'oil', 'pen', 'receive', 'finish', 'fly', 'give', 'leave', 'go away!', 'leave me!'; nouns: 'death', 'devil' (=good spirit), 'ghost', 'good spirit', 'good heart', 'distance', 'close' (intimate), 'close' (near), 'close' vs. 'far', 'dream'; checking new vocab from Greg and Rachele: 'slowly/small', 'fast', 'exceed/pass' (and some tense/aspect distinctions between stative vs. past tense of 'exceed/past'), 'add', 'bread', 'light'; new Vocab: 'dry season', 'rainy season', 'bean/pumpkin seed'(?)/'fish dish' (for 'egusi').
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Berkeley Field Methods: Abo
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Class elicitation session on lexical clarifications, 2021-10.001.033, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Abo", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2KK99Q7.
    • Item identifier: 2021-10.001.042
    • Date: 15 Oct 2010
    • Contributors: Achille Massoma (consultant); Larry M. Hyman (researcher, donor)
    • Language: Abo (abb)
    • Place: Berkeley, CA
    • Description: Words including but not limited to: 'fire', 'white', 'elephant', 'dog', 'quarrel', 'peace', "it's a quarrel"; verbs including: 'hide' (plus some aspectual contrasts), 'help'; verbs: 'kill', 'know' (knowledge), 'laugh (laughter)', 'lick', (small lizard), 'make', 'do', 'mold', 'open', 'refuse', 'rot'; verbs: 'stink', 'see', 'sell', 'send', 'sew', 'show', 'show', 'sing', 'spit', 'steal', 'theft'; verbs: 'swallow', 'sweep', 'tie', 'try', 'wash'; verbs: 'weave', 'write', 'plait', 'do work', 'write'; verbs (and nouns): 'read', 'speak', 'shout', 'table', 'saliva', 'run'.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Berkeley Field Methods: Abo
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Class elicitation session on lexical clarifications, 2021-10.001.042, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Abo", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2DZ077Z.
    • Item identifier: 2021-10.001.056
    • Date: 29 Oct 2010
    • Contributors: Achille Massoma (consultant); Rachele Delucchi (researcher); Larry M. Hyman (researcher, donor); Florian Lionnet (researcher)
    • Language: Abo (abb)
    • Place: Berkeley, CA
    • Description: Verbs (and other vocab): 'bark', 'bend', 'give birth', 'blow with mouth', 'blow nose', 'become blind', 'blind person', 'come back', 'return something'; vocab: 'burn', 'fry', "it burned", "I burned", "it is burned"; vocab discussed: 'carry', 'clean', 'dawn', "the day is waking up", 'wake up', 'crawl', 'clear away', 'cross', 'cut', "I'm cutting the grass", 'grass', "this grass", 'release'; 'deceive', 'divide', 'drip', 'drive away', 'dry', 'eat meat', (bite/chew), 'exchange', 'exit', 'take out', 'cultivate', 'fear', 'look for', 'find', 'want', "I saw it", "I want it"; 'dig', "I'm digging a hole", 'fold', 'wrap', 'cover' (with lid, cloth, etc.), 'open', 'uncover', 'take off something', 'groan' (='to tie your face'), 'growl' (maybe just 'bark'?), 'harvest', 'hate', "I hate him", 'heat (verb)', 'advice', 'hot day'; 'grasp'/'catch'/'hold', 'be heavy', 'make heavy', "don't make that bag heavy", "it became heavy", 'imitate', 'injure', 'get injured', "I gave him an injury", 'make fall', "I made him fall", 'injury', "I injured him"; 'jump', 'take care of
      (care for, be a parent to), 'knee', 'raise'.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Berkeley Field Methods: Abo
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Class elicitation session on lexicon, 2021-10.001.056, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Abo", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2MG7NGR.
    • Item identifier: 2021-10.001.026
    • Date: 01 Oct 2010
    • Contributors: Achille Massoma (consultant); Larry M. Hyman (researcher, donor)
    • Language: Abo (abb)
    • Place: Berkeley, CA
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Berkeley Field Methods: Abo
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Class elicitation session on miscellaneous items, 2021-10.001.026, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Abo", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2GT5M3V.
    • Item identifier: 2021-10.001.019
    • Date: 24 Sep 2010
    • Contributors: Achille Massoma (consultant); Florian Lionnet (researcher); Larry M. Hyman (donor)
    • Language: Abo (abb)
    • Place: Berkeley, CA
    • Description: "Big friend," "a friend that is big"; "big friend", "my friend"; "this friend", "this child"; "this chief", "friends", "these friends", "my friends", "my friend"; "this big friend", "this friend who is big"; "fall", "fall down", "ground/earth", "my friend fell", "my friend ate"; "my elephant(s)", "this/that elephant"; "these/those elephants"; "that elephant over there"; "this/that/these/those chicken(s)", "chicken(s)"; "this/that banana"; "I want to eat", "I want food", "I want to fall", "send"; numerals: "ten", "twenty", "hundred", "thousand"; "one friend", "one child", "some friends"; "which friend(s)".
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Berkeley Field Methods: Abo
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Class elicitation session on modifiers, 2021-10.001.019, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Abo", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2D21WJ8.
    • Item identifier: 2021-10.001.003
    • Date: 01 Sep 2010
    • Contributors: Achille Massoma (consultant); Roslyn Burns (researcher); Toni Cook (researcher); Thera Crane (researcher); Rachele Delucchi (researcher); Stefanie Fauconnier (researcher); Greg Finley (researcher); Nadine Grimm (researcher); Larry M. Hyman (researcher, donor); Florian Lionnet (researcher); Clare S. Sandy (researcher)
    • Language: Abo (abb)
    • Place: Berkeley, CA
    • Description: 'Man', 'dog', 'drum ear', 'egg', 'elephant'; 'eye', 'fat', 'crab', 'animal', 'meat', 'fire', 'fish', 'foot'; 'friend', 'child', 'frog' (still need), 'fruit' (no general word), 'goat', 'hair'; brief recording before the break of 'arm' and 'hair' (which is the same as 'snake'); 'arm' and 'hair' repeated with discussion; 'head', 'heart', 'hoe' (same as 'market'), 'horn', 'house'/'home'; 'hunger', 'husband'/'man' (different prefixes), 'hyena', 'iron', 'knife', 'kola' (general word for 'nut'); 'leaf', 'leg' (= foot and whole leg), 'leopard', 'panther', 'lion', 'mattress' (need traditional 'mat'); 'medicine' (vs. 'dog' tones), 'money', 'monkey'; 'mother', 'name', 'navel', 'oil', 'palm tree' -- palm tree is complex and we also discussed other kinds of trees/nuts, as well as a bit of possession morphology; 'path', 'person', 'pepper', 'pig', 'pot', 'rain', 'rat'/'mouse'.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Berkeley Field Methods: Abo
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Class elicitation session on noun list (dog-rat), 2021-10.001.003, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Abo", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2G15ZRK.
    • Item identifier: 2021-10.001.005
    • Date: 03 Sep 2010
    • Contributors: Achille Massoma (consultant); Greg Finley (researcher); Larry M. Hyman (donor)
    • Language: Abo (abb)
    • Place: Berkeley, CA
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Berkeley Field Methods: Abo
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Class elicitation session on possessive nouns and numerals (river-time), 2021-10.001.005, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Abo", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X26H4GBC.
    • Item identifier: 2021-10.001.035
    • Date: 08 Oct 2010
    • Contributors: Achille Massoma (consultant); Stefanie Fauconnier (researcher); Larry M. Hyman (donor)
    • Language: Abo (abb)
    • Place: Berkeley, CA
    • Description: "It's mine"; "this one/that one"; "these are my ..."; "these things/crabs/rocks".
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Berkeley Field Methods: Abo
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Class elicitation session on possessives and demonstratives, 2021-10.001.035, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Abo", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2B56HPT.
    • Item identifier: 2021-10.001.037
    • Date: 08 Oct 2010
    • Contributors: Achille Massoma (consultant); Stefanie Fauconnier (researcher); Larry M. Hyman (donor)
    • Language: Abo (abb)
    • Place: Berkeley, CA
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Berkeley Field Methods: Abo
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Class elicitation session on pronouns in isolation, 2021-10.001.037, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Abo", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X22N516Q.
    • Item identifier: 2021-10.001.055
    • Date: 29 Oct 2010
    • Contributors: Achille Massoma (consultant); Rachele Delucchi (researcher); Florian Lionnet (researcher); Larry M. Hyman (donor)
    • Language: Abo (abb)
    • Place: Berkeley, CA
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Berkeley Field Methods: Abo
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Class elicitation session on reciprocals, statives, and causatives, 2021-10.001.055, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Abo", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2R78D51.
    • Item identifier: 2021-10.001.036
    • Date: 08 Oct 2010
    • Contributors: Achille Massoma (consultant); Stefanie Fauconnier (researcher); Larry M. Hyman (donor)
    • Language: Abo (abb)
    • Place: Berkeley, CA
    • Description: 'Friend'/tree'/'bamboo': noun class for singular vs plural.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Berkeley Field Methods: Abo
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Class elicitation session on singular and plural pairs, 2021-10.001.036, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Abo", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X26D5RXN.
    • Item identifier: 2021-10.001.049
    • Date: 22 Oct 2010
    • Contributors: Achille Massoma (consultant); Nadine Grimm (researcher); Larry M. Hyman (donor)
    • Language: Abo (abb)
    • Place: Berkeley, CA
    • Description: Different tenses: perfect, past habitual, imperative, hortative, past perfect and negation, mainly with 'count' and 'extinguish'; pronoun paradigm with sONgsE (tonal difference for second persons); subject pronouns for different noun classes, agreement with human class 3 nouns such as 'chief', 'teacher', etc.
      Transitive-intransitive verbs: 'break'-'broken', 'hid'-'hidden', 'closed', 'wash', 'pound', 'sold', 'bought', 'finished', 'cooked', 'dry', 'extinguish', 'opened', 'tied', 'feed'-'fed', 'torn', 'covered', 'remove'.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Berkeley Field Methods: Abo
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Class elicitation session on tense and (in)transitive verbs, 2021-10.001.049, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Abo", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2HQ3XVZ.
    • Item identifier: 2021-10.001.004
    • Date: 01 Sep 2010
    • Contributors: Achille Massoma (consultant); Roslyn Burns (researcher); Toni Cook (researcher); Thera Crane (researcher); Rachele Delucchi (researcher); Stefanie Fauconnier (researcher); Greg Finley (researcher); Nadine Grimm (researcher); Larry M. Hyman (researcher, donor); Florian Lionnet (researcher); Clare S. Sandy (researcher)
    • Language: Abo (abb)
    • Place: Berkeley, CA
    • Description: Reviewing tones from Larry Hyman's arrangement of data from 27 Aug (mono and bisyllabic tone patterns). Reviewing 27 Aug data; review of singular and plural pairings; also 'rooster', 'chicken', 'man', 'monkey'.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Berkeley Field Methods: Abo
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Class elicitation session on tone and plurality, 2021-10.001.004, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Abo", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2B8571N.