Cua September 2023 Fieldwork by the Numbers

From September 16, 2023 to September 30, 2023, we (Nikos and I) did fieldwork on Cua, an endangered Khoe-Kwadi language spoken in southeastern Botswana. We did the fieldwork in Diphuduhudu, which is to the west of the Molepolole-Lephephe road. One goal was to write a rough draft of a paper on the remarkable Cua pronominal system. Another goal was also to introduce Nikos to fieldwork on Khoisan linguistics. We accomplished these goals. 

This expedition was my third field trip of 2023 (actually the third field trip in three months: July, August, September 2023) funded by a four-year NSF grant 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 the September 2023 work on Cua: 

1.

13 speakers, organized into five teams.

2.

1,832 sound files of lexical items, phrases and sentences (no new oral texts).

3.  

162 notebook pages of grammar. 14 notebook pages of oral text.

4. 

111 new lexical items (entered into FLEx)

(for a total of 1166 lexical items).

5. 

A complete rough draft of a syntax paper on Cua pronouns (18 single spaced pages):

"Three Modes of Pronominal Interpretation in Cua"

6. 

81 photos

7. 

2 minutes, 40 seconds rough transcription of an oral text.