Fieldwork

Fieldwork 5

Dates:  July 14- August 15, 2025 (Lee, Hlungwani, Pretorius) 

Location: Potchefstroom, Limpopo, Johannesburg, Durban, South Africa

Consultants:  Setswana, Xitsonga, Tshivenda, Siswati, Sepedi, isiNdebele, Sesotho, isiZulu

Experimenters:  

• Japan: Lee (PI), Hasegawa (RA)

• South Africa: Hlungwani, Pretorius, Riedel, Zeller

• General information (only accessible to members) 

  • Swadesh: 

    • Consent Form

    • Demographic Questionnaire 

    • Stimuli (Stimuli folder has an Excel file with each language) [Metadata]

  • Nominals, Negatives

    • Consent Form

    • Demographic Questionnaire 

    • Languages

      • Setswana (TSN160-167, DP nominals; TSN168-172, negative)

Fieldwork 4

Dates:  March 3-10, 2024 (Lee, Furumoto, Hlungwani, Pretorius) 

Location: Limpopo/Potchefstroom, South Africa

Consultants:  Xitsonga, Siswati, Setswana

Experimenters:  

• Japan: Lee, Furumoto

• South Africa: Hlungwani, Pretorius

• General information (only accessible to members) 

  • Swadesh: 

    • Consent Form

    • Demographic Questionnaire 

    • Stimuli (Stimuli folder has an Excel file with each language) [Metadata]

  • Nominals: 

    • Consent Form

    • Demographic Questionnaire 

    • Stimuli

Fieldwork 3

Dates:  July 3-28, 2023 (Lee, Bennett, Riedel) 

Location: Limpopo, South Africa; Roma, Lesotho

Consultants:  Sesotho, isiXhosa, Northern Sotho, Tshivenda, Xitsonga, Siswati

Experimenters:  

• Japan: Lee

• South Africa: Riedel, Bennett, Makgopa, Hlungwani

• Lesotho: Makha Makhetsi,  Mokhoele Hala-hala

• General information (only accessible to members) 

  • Swadesh: 

    • Consent Form

    • Demographic Questionnaire 

    • Stimuli (Stimuli folder has an Excel file with each language) [Metadata]

  • Nominals: 

    • Consent Form

    • Demographic Questionnaire 

    • Stimuli

Fieldwork 2

Dates:  March 7-15, 2023 (Lee, Riedel, Masilela, Furumoto) & 

 March 18-21, 2023 (Hlungwani, Furumoto)

Location: Limpopo, South Africa

Consultants:  isiXhosa, isiZulu, Southern Ndebele, Tshivenda, Xitsonga

Experimenters:  

• Japan: Lee, Furumoto

• South Africa: Riedel, Masilela

• General information (only accessible to members) 

  • Consent Form

  • Demographic Questionnaire

  • Stimuli (Stimuli folder has an Excel file with each language) [Metadata]

Fieldwork 1

Date:  December 23, 2022 - January 7, 2023

Location: Limpopo, South Africa

Consultants: Tsonga (13 speakers), Venda (8 speakers), Northern Sotho (9 speakers)

Experimenters:  

• Japan: Lee, Furumoto, Shinagawa

• South Africa: Hlungwani

• General information (only accessible to members) 

  • Consent Form

  • Demographic Questionnaire

  • Stimuli (Stimuli folder has an Excel file with each language) [Metadata]