From June 1 to August 1, I was in Togo to teach at the University of Lome and to do fieldwork. I spent roughly the first month in Lome, and the second month in Agbanon, a small village north of Kpalime. The focus of the fieldwork was on Kpelegbe, a dialect of Ewe spoken in Togo.
The trip was exploratory, working on language contacts and other logistical issues for future fieldwork. Most of the fieldwork done involved recording lexical items, and some oral texts. The following numbers give a bird’s eye view of what was accomplished.
1. Six native speaker consultants for Kpelegbe (3 male, 3 female)
2. One native speaker consultant for Kumagbe (1 female)
3. 19 days of fieldwork (spread over 5 weeks)
4. 722 lexical items recorded, transcribed and translated into English and French
(not entered into Flex)
5. 4,242 sound files (.wav) of words and phrases Kpelegbe
6. 55 sound files (.wav) of words and phrases for Kuma dialect
7. 19 video recordings of oral texts (102 minutes 21 seconds).
(neither transcribed nor translated)
8. 21 audio recordings of oral texts (28 minutes 37 seconds)
(neither transcribed nor translated)
9. 1,115 photos
10. 44 Whatsapp contacts
11. 1 submitted paper: ‘Ghanaian versus Togolese Ewe’
