OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1281054

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Title:		Grammatical Elicitation - part 4- Nyambat village
		Nya_Grammar-Elicitation_04
		A Documentation of Bati Language and Oral Traditions
Contributor:		MAKON
Contributor (consultant):		NSUMB-B
Coverage:		Cameroon
Date:		2017-06-17
Description:		Elicitation of grammatical information is an important component of the research project. In spite of the project's methodology being sociolinguistically oriented, elicitation is called into play to complement possibly missing information in naturally recorded data. Grammar elicitation has been carried out with the aid of pre-compiled questionnaire. The bulk of entries in the questionnaire has been drawned from Bouquiaux's ().
		The project to Document aspects of Bati language and oral traditions is an original idea of Dr Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso, who had initially surveyed the Bati speech area as part of a pilot research project granted by the Ministry of Scientific Research and Technological Innovation of the Republic of Cameroon. Based on the results of this pilot research which have revealed a situation of critical endangerment of Bati language and ancestral practices, the idea to submit a major documentation project to ELDP has matured. The project has eventually been submitted during the 2015 funding round with Dr Emmanuel Ngué Um as Principal Investigator, and Dr Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso as co-applicant. The project started in October 1st, 2015, and will run till the 30th of September in 2018.
		The session evolves around question-response stimuli. The researcher spells out an entry in the questionnaire (word form, phrase, sentence, etc.), and asks the consultant to translate it into French.
		Elicitation is done in the French language
		Gwladys Makon is a team research member for the Bati projet. She is enrolled in the PHD programme at the Department of African Languages and Linguistics. Makon is a PHD fellow for the Bati projet, and she is mainly concerned with providing a comprehensive grammatical description of Bati language, all three dialects inclusive. During her undergraduate study at the Department of African Languages and Linguistics at the University of Yaoundé I, Gwladys Makon has red, among others, the followingn subjets: Introduction to general linguistics, phonetics, phonology (with special emphasis on Bantu languages), introduction to sociolinguistics, language teaching, language planning, etc.
		Nsumb Boniface is a native of Nyambat. He is a relative to Mbombog Njambga Nicolas. According to Mbombog Njambga Nicolas, Nsumb Boniface's grand father was one of the traditional priests (Mbombog) to who the catholic church have abducted and confiscated their priestly artifacts as the church waged the conquest over Mbombole. Nsumb boniface is a trained tourist guide. He declares to be one of those inhabitants of the Bati Canton who best knows about the topography of Mbombole, even though he did not agree to disclose this knowledge to the research team.
Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1281054
		MDP0332
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1281054%23
Publisher:		Ngué Um Emmanuel
		International Center for Research and Documentation on African Traditions and Languages (CERDOTOLA)
Subject:		Discourse
		Interview
		Grammar Elicitation
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Archive:		Endangered Languages Archive
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1281054
DateStamp:		2019-03-31
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Citation:		MAKON; NSUMB-B (consultant). 2017-06-17. Ngué Um Emmanuel.