Summer 2023 Fieldwork by the Numbers

During June and July of 2023, we (Olivia and I) did fieldwork on Cua, an endangered central Khoisan language spoken in southeastern Botswana. We did the fieldwork in Gaborone (one week) and Diphuduhudu (one month). The goals were to finish a rough draft of the grammatical sketch, bring the number of lexical entries up to at least 1,000, and to continue working on oral texts. We were successful in these goals.

This work is part of a four-year NSF grant to document Cua and to train students in doing fieldwork on Khoisan languages:

https://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1760980&HistoricalAwards=false

In the following summary, I give the numbers characterizing our research for summer 2023. 

1. 3,959 sound files of lexical items, phrases and sentences 

(for a total of 9791 sound files for 2019, 2022, 2023).

2.  292 notebook pages of grammar, lexicon and oral texts.

3. A rough draft of complete grammatical sketch (25 chapters, 85 pages).

4. Two rough draft transcribed oral texts 

(for a total of four rough draft transcribed oral texts).

5. 237 new lexical items 

(for a total of 1058 lexical items in FLEx).

6. 605 new photos 

(for a total of 1437 photos for 2019, 2020, 2023).

Previous Years:

2019:

https://ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2019/08/summer-2019-fieldwork-by-numbers.html

2022:

https://ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2022/08/summer-2022-fieldwork-by-numbers.html#more