A blog about natural language syntax. Topics will include (but are not limited to): syntax, semantics, morphology, typology and syntactic fieldwork.
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
Why am I investing so much time and effort in a Kpelegbe dictionary? In this post, I will outline some of the uses of the Kpelegbe dictionary that I am currently in Togo working on. My current goal is
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
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
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
The original version of the Kpelegbe dictionary was a set of hand-written fieldnotes from the early 90s, meant to provide me with a tool for my syntactic analyses at the time. It was arranged by tonal
Kpelegbe is a dialect of Ewe spoken in Togo on the road from Kpalime to Atakpame. I started learning Ewe in Togo the Peace Corps (1985-1987). Then, I wrote my thesis on the syntax of Kpelegbe (MIT, 19
