Today’s post is also about Bardi. I now have 50 of the Laves stories fully translated and annotated, and about 30 to go, give or take. I’ve written an export macro that converts the texts to LaTeX for proofing on paper.
I think one of the stories I did this morning is my favourite in the [...]
I’m going through the Laves text in preparation for fieldwork in a month or so. I’m doing preliminary translations and making notes about things I don’t understand. I think I’m about halfway through the texts now, but it’s very uneven. There are a bunch of slightly different dialects represented in the text.
In a text today [...]
I’ve been translating and annotating Bardi in preparation for my upcoming trip and something occurred to me this morning. In several texts the hero is creeping through the scrub and making sure he’s not being followed (or about to be attacked), or he’s tracking someone. At each point, the hero is described as doing something [...]
Work has continued on the typing, translation, and annotation of the corpus. Stuff is happening. Really cool differences are coming up, which are being tagged.
I’m going to try to give regular updates for what’s being achieved on grants, since it’s a good way for me to do record-keeping and it may be useful for others to see what grant tracking looks like.
We started in June. Since then, here’s what’s been achieved:
I bought a field laptop.
Linda ran all my Laves [...]
Working on texts like those in the Laves corpus means making a lot of choices about what to type. For example, we could produce a facsimile of the originals and annotate that, or we could produce something that’s a bit further from the originals.
We’ve gone in the latter direction for this project. I deliberately decided [...]
I’ve started a page for the Laves materials project. It’s still a draft at this stage but more material will go up as the project progresses. You can reach it here: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~bowern/laves/laves.htm.
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