Chin Languages Elicitation Guide

Abstract

The Chin Language Elicitation Guide is the result of a long-standing collaboration among linguist members of the Chin Languages Research Project, mainly—but not exclusively—affiliated with Indiana University (IU). Designed to serve as a starting place when beginning to work with new Chin languages or dialects, the guide contains structured elicitation items for many of the basic categories found in grammatical sketches (e.g., verbal agreement systems, transitive/intransitive structures, interrogatives), as well as sections focused on grammatical areas that are often complex and/or of interest to scholars working in Chin linguistics (e.g., causatives, spatial deixis, psycho-collocations). The aim is to help field linguists establish a preliminary overview of some of the important grammatical structures in the language.