Akpoué Kouamé Josué

Fieldwork

Field experience, elicitation tools, and research data.

Field experience

My theoretical work is grounded in first-hand fieldwork. Since 2016, I have conducted or participated in fieldwork sessions on six Ivorian languages, primarily in Côte d'Ivoire.

Year Location Language Role Focus
2016 N'Zekrezessou (Iffou Region, Côte d'Ivoire) Baule Solo researcher Proper names
2017 Bonosso, Côte d'Ivoire Bere Team member General grammar
2018 Bonosso, Côte d'Ivoire Bere Research assistant (Prof. Jeffrey Heath, University of Michigan) —
2018 Kpas, Côte d'Ivoire Modjukru Co-researcher TAM & information structure
2019 Ebra, Côte d'Ivoire Abure Team member —
2019 Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire Wobé Supervisor (MA student fieldwork) Nominal semantics
2019 Daoukro, Côte d'Ivoire Wobé Solo researcher Coordination
2019–2021 Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire Bere Collaborator Lexical semantics
2019–2024 Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire Baule Solo researcher TAM

Elicitation tools

Elicitation materials developed for formal semantic fieldwork on Ivorian languages. All author-produced materials are freely available for reuse by other researchers.

Author-produced materials

Storyboard "Aya"

v1.0.0 storyboard
2019 CC-BY

Targets: TAM: past tense, progressive and perfective aspect, habitual contexts

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Storyboard "Party"

v1.0.0 storyboard
2020 CC-BY

Targets: Coordination — emphatic coordination, focus contexts

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Storyboard "Coffee"

v1.0.0 storyboard
2020 CC-BY

Targets: Coordination — emphatic coordination

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Storyboard "Courses"

v1.0.0 storyboard
2020 CC-BY

Targets: Coordination — emphatic coordination

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Beans & sticks pictures

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2024 TBC

Targets: —

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Dots pictures

picture_set
2020 TBC

Targets: —

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Circ & Squares pictures

picture_set
2020 TBC

Targets: —

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External tools used

Peter Jenks questionnaire

questionnaire

Targets: Nominal semantics

Used for: Wobé fieldwork (2019)

TotemField / Hampton Storyboards

storyboard

Targets: General elicitation

Used for: Wobé fieldwork (2019)

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MelaTAMP Storyboards

storyboard
von Prince, K. et al.

Targets: TAM elicitation

Used for: TAM fieldwork

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Research data

Corpus data, annotated fieldwork recordings, and elicitation results will be made available here as they are prepared for distribution. — Coming soon.