Fieldwork — Entidade

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Ordinary Working Grammarian

A blog about natural language syntax. Topics will include (but are not limited to): syntax, semantics, morphology, typology and syntactic fieldwork.

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Summer 2026 Fieldwork (Kpelegbe) by the Numbers

From June 1 to August 1, I was in Togo to do fieldwork on Kpelegbe, a dialect of Ewe spoken in Togo. This was my second year of fielwork on Kpelegbe. The following numbers give an overview of what I h

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Peanut Butter Town

We left the village at around 11:00am Sunday, and raced back to Lome, our driver honking his way around motorcycles and other cars. We sped along making great time. But then, about halfway to Lome, ou

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Internet in the Village

Since the 90s, there are been many changes to village life.In the 90s, people got their water from the stream, mostly through the hard labor of young girls who carried all the water in buckets on thei

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The Weakest Link (Kpelegbe Fieldwork)

On Tuesday, disaster struck. The day started auspiciously enough. I had the brilliant idea to use my iPhone 16 to record some videos in the field. I had already recorded the audio of some songs from o

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Capturing a Lexical Item (Kpelegbe)

In this blog post, I walk through the steps that I have been following in capturing lexical items for the Kpelegbe dictionary.1. FindingThere are many different sources for lexical items. The only con

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Kpelegbe: First Full Week (June 2026)

Here is a summary (by the numbers) of my first two weeks of being in the field doing work on the Kpelegbe dictionary.Dates: 6/10-6/19Consultants: 7 (2 men, 4 women)Teams: 3Days: 9New lexical items: 19

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Togo Diary (June July 2026)

This diary is the record of my stay in Togo during June and July of 2026.June 6 SaturdayTrip to KpalaLome is increasing in size at a rapid rate. Outlying areas that used to mostly farm land, are now b