OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0021-6CD2-A

Metadata
Title:		Roots of lemeotir
		Roots of the lemeotir tree
		Languages of Southwest Ambrym
Contributor:		von Prince
Contributor (annotator):		JM
Contributor (author):		ME
Coverage:		Vanuatu
Date:		2009-10-23
Description:		The elderly male speaker tells a story about a boy who was fed by a tree during his infancy.
		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.
		This story is about a woman who puts her newborn son under the roots of a tree and gives him a root to suck on, knowing that it will keep him alive. The boy grows and when he is old enough, he makes himself a bow and arrows and goes to shoot some birds. He wants to bring them as a present to his mother and sings a song as he walks to her place. When his mother hears him, she knows it's her son, but her own mother does not believe her. Finally, the son arrives with the fowl and they celebrate their reunion.
		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.
		JM has assisted at most of the transcriptions and translations of the recordings in Daakaka, being a very gifted informant. He has spend part of his education in the country's capital Vila.
Format:		audio/x-wav
		text/x-eaf+xml
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0021-6CD2-A
Publisher:		Manfred Krifka
		Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin
Subject:		Discourse
		Narrative
		Unspecified
		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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OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0021-6CD2-A
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
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Search Info
Citation:		ME. 2009-10-23. Manfred Krifka.
Terms:		area_Pacific country_VU iso639_bpa
Inferred Metadata
Country:		Vanuatu
Area:		Pacific