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 (1:30pm Tuesday)

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 011 Individual 007 (Wed. Sept. 5, 10:00 AM)

In my group elicitation I intend to do:

  • name / names
  • tail / tails
  • claw / claws
  • horn / horns
  • feather / feathers
  • yellow
  • green
  • blue
  • heavy
  • light
  • 1S / 1P
  • 2S / 2P
  • 3S / 3P
  • to walk (all persons, present prog.)
  • to sleep (all persons, present prog.)

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

Kayla

--Kayla 18:11, 4 September 2012 (UTC) I intend to use this longish list for both individual and group sessions today. I will delete any words I don't get to sometime tonight.

NOUNS

  • seed(s)
  • thorn(s)
  • field(s)
  • house(s)
  • fence(s)
  • boat(s)
  • bridge(s)
  • car(s)
  • bike(s)
  • village(s)
  • school(s)
  • shirt(s)
  • shoe(s)
  • hat(s)
  • pant(s)
  • sock(s)
  • skirt(s)
  • bag(s)
  • belt(s)
  • earring(s)
  • necklace(s)

ADJECTIVES

  • good
  • bad
  • short (being)
  • tall (being)
  • skinny
  • fat
  • old
  • young
  • pretty
  • ugly
  • clean
  • dirty

Oana

For GE on Tuesday 9/04

  • child, children
  • person, people
  • god, gods
  • bride
  • groom
  • animal, animals
  • pig, pigs
  • fox, foxes
  • insect, insects
  • worm, worms
  • tail, tails
  • fur
  • claw, claws
  • feather, feathers
  • food
  • drink, beverage
  • milk
  • egg, eggs
  • fruit, fruit (pl)
  • leaf, leaves
  • root, roots

For IE on Tuesday 9/04

At 2:30-3:30 pm.

  • Verb paradigms for past tense: go, walk, run (if time allows, mostly to get the verb stem and some morphology and the pronouns)

Kayla has the following list, which we may get through as well:

  • ant, ants
  • beetle, beetles
  • louse, lice
  • grasshopper, grasshoppers
  • fly, flies
  • butterfly, butterflies
  • bee, bees
  • snake, snakes
  • mouse, mice
  • lizard, lizards
  • elephant, elephants
  • gazelle, gazelles
  • flower, flowers
  • seed, seeds
  • thorn, thorns
  • pitch, tree juice, gum
  • firewood
  • eyelash
  • eyebrow
  • nostril
  • nose
  • throat
  • knee
  • elbow
  • cheek
  • forehead
  • wrist
  • navel

Nico

Individual Elicitation 9/5/2012

  • world
  • sunrise
  • sunset
  • morning
  • afternoon
  • night
  • week, weeks
  • month, months
  • year, years
  • rain
  • (rain)storm
  • lightning
  • thunder
  • sky
  • full moon
  • book, books
  • horse, horses (male and female)
  • donkey, donkeys (male/female)
  • monkey, monkeys (male/female)
  • wolf, wolves
  • bird, birds


Peter

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