ASZ011 - As - Basic words (plants, animals, people, body parts, verbs)

This dataset contains elicited basic vocabulary from As with a native speaker of As who wishes to remain anonymous. The words cover the semantic domains of plants, animals, people, body parts, and verbs (corresponding to the items in blue ink on pages 20-37 of the Fieldnotes). As far as possible, the words were recorded in isolation, utterance-final, and utterance-medial context; however, the speaker has not used As for many years, so this was not always possible. The session was recorded on 4 April 2023, near to Sorong city (Southwest Papua province, Indonesia). This dataset relates to the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship 'Synchronic and diachronic investigations in Raja Ampat-South Halmahera, a little-known subbranch of Austronesian' (PF19\100004); additional fieldwork funds were provided by a British Academy Small Grant (SG1920\100342). Further deposits are available in the related DataShare sub-community (https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/8573).