OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0021-6C81-5

Metadata
Title:		Marriage Lineage
		Languages of Southwest Ambrym
Contributor (annotator):		von Prince
Contributor (consultant):		GR
Contributor (speaker):		FT
Coverage:		Vanuatu
Date:		2010-06-15
Description:		Speaker FT explains the traditional rules according to which a father must choose a wife for his sons.
		The goal of this project is the documentation of the three major languages in the Southwest of the pacific island of Ambrym, Vanuatu. The major objectives include the creation of both academic and local dictionaries, grammatical descriptions of the three languages as well as extensive recordings of the languages with an emphasis on language use in connection with specific cultural pracitces such as sand drawings, dances and songs.
		Traditionally, a boys father has to choose a bride for him. Who is suitable as a daughter-in-law depends on the intricate kinship system. In short, a woman eligible as the daughter-in-law of a man X should be the daughter of the daughter of one of X's sisters. If it's not one of his direct sisters, it might also be a daughter of one of his father's brothers.Today, people do not adhere strictly to this system and children will often choose their own spouses instead of having their parents decide.
		This informant from Emyotungan is a fieldworker of the Cultural Center of Vanuatu and has been involved in attempts to conserve the language prior to the project. As many of the informants, he is very much concerned with the growing influence of Bislama on the language and is trying to avoid using loan words. His knowledge of stories and his commitment to preserve the language have been very helpful.
		Kilu von Prince has chosen the grammar of Daakaka to be the subject of her dissertation. Her purpose in the DoBeS project "Languages of West Ambrym" is to document and to help preserve the languages Daakaka and Ral kalein by collecting language data, establishing lexical databases and providing local communities with orthographies, dictionaries and printed accounts of traditional stories for use in education.
		GR is a young and bright member of his community and has been suggested to assist me with transcriptions and translations while JM was away from the island.
Format:		audio/x-wav
		text/x-eaf+xml
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0021-6C81-5
Publisher:		Manfred Krifka
		Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin
Subject:		Discourse
		Description
		Daakaka language
		Dakaka
Subject (ISO639):		bpa
Type:		audio
OLAC Info
Archive:		The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl
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OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0021-6C81-5
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		FT (speaker); von Prince (annotator); GR (consultant). 2010-06-15. Manfred Krifka.
Terms:		area_Pacific country_VU iso639_bpa
Inferred Metadata
Country:		Vanuatu
Area:		Pacific