[Lingtyp] fieldwork on deixis

[Jessica Katiuscia Ivani]

Dear Michael,
you can use lego blocks to create different scenarios and let the speakers describe the contexts and the spatial relations between the tokens. Robert Schikowski (University of Zürich) has used this method for Chintang (Tibeto-Burman), I attach a picture of one of his models. You can find information about the methodology and further inspiration on this <https://www.clrp.uzh.ch/downloads/Dirksmeyer2008.pdf> MA thesis by Tyko Dirksmeyer. 
I have also used lego blocks during my fieldwork experiences (on Dravidian and Tibeto-Burman), in addition to other materials, and they have been extremely useful.
Best,
Jessica





> On 25. Feb 2020, at 17:36, Michael Daniel <misha.daniel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> my students are going to do a field study to collect basic information on the use of three deictic pronouns in Rutul, Lezgic, East Caucasian; and would like to ask for advice. This is a system of three demonstratives, but we are not sure whether this is a person- or distance-oriented system or something else. None of them speaks the language (while they have a fairly good understanding of Rutul grammatical system). The corpus is by far not big enough to provide evidence (as is probably often the case with demonstratives). Grammaticality and appropriateness judgments in artificial settings are not consistent.  
> 
> Can you indicate successful field / experimental studies that deal with this and are specific about their protocol and experiment design? Among other options, we were considering using David P. Wilkins questionnaire <http://fieldmanuals.mpi.nl/download/1999_The_1999_demonstrative_questionnaire_this_that.pdf>, but it does not provide guidelines on best practices of how to apply it (apparently, that was the author's intention). We have some ideas, but wanted to ask - and discuss these ideas - with anyone who has experience in using this or another questionnaire on deictic pronouns. We would also be grateful for additional references in the literature.
> 
> You may as well reply to my personal email, with copies to the students (in the copy above),
> 
> Michael Daniel   
> 
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