Individual session wordlists

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Review wordlists from individual sessions here to avoid repeated elicitation. Remember to post whether your session is group or individual, and try to indicate roughly when it will be happening so that later sessions can adjust their lists to avoid duplicating the work of earlier sessions.

Vivian

Individual 008

I'll be filling blanks for body part plurals and getting more body parts, like those below:

heads mouths noses tongues bloods? lip lips jaw jaws neck necks chest chests belly bellies hip hips thigh thighs knee knees elbow elbows eyebrow eyebrows eyelash eyelashes eyelid eyelids nostril nostrils armpit armpits back backs buttock buttocks


Jevon

Individual 007

I'm planning on just going back and filling in missing plurals until I get a sense of a pattern for singular/plural alternations. New (lexemes) are at the top.

  • Man
  • Men
  • Cat
  • Cats
  • Village
  • Villages
  • Tribe/Nationality
  • Tribes/Nationalities
  • Girls
  • Women (married)
  • Women (unmarried)
  • People
  • Mothers
  • Fathers
  • Brothers
  • Sisters
  • Rivers
  • Streams
  • Riverbanks
  • (Big) rocks
  • Branches
  • Sticks
  • Roads
  • Places
  • Finger/Toe
  • Arms
  • Legs

Matt

Group ???

Not sure how many people will be doing individual elicitations before me on 9/4 (Tuesday); list is subject to change depending on what those people are doing in the morning. In my group elicitation I intend to do:

  • belly (abdomen)
  • chest
  • neck
  • tail / tails
  • claw / claws
  • horn / horns
  • feather / feathers
  • yellow
  • green
  • blue
  • long
  • short
  • wide
  • narrow
  • to walk
  • to run
  • to sit
  • to sleep
  • to burn (intr.)
  • if time permits, various pleasantries we haven't asked for yet ("hi, how are you" etc.)

Kelsey

  • water
  • swamp/wetland
  • rapids/falls
  • air
  • sky
  • day
  • night
  • fire
  • smoke
  • ash(es)
  • salt
  • soup/stew
  • meat
  • bread
  • egg
  • milk
  • antelope
  • goat
  • crocodile
  • hippopotamus
  • elephant
  • insect/bug
  • mosquito
  • knife
  • roof
  • door
  • wall
  • white
  • black
  • red

Peter

  • Carburetor
  • Polar bear
  • Elf
  • Wheaties (etc.)