Log 1: Arrival
Welcome to the Guatemala Field Trip 2016 log! The journey has already started!
I'm part of group of Linguistics grad students and professors who will spend 30 days studying Mayan languages in Guatemala. The team is led by Dr. Masha Polinsky, Dr. Omer Preminger and Dr. Pedro Mateo Pedro, three leading Mayan scholars. The whole project is a partnership between the Language Science Center of the Univeristy of Maryland and the NGO Wuqu' Kawoq, which provides health to impoverished communities in Guatemala. Our mission in Guatemala is twofold: (i) doing linguistics; and (ii) being the first team to work on the field station fruit of this partnership. Our team includes researchers from different countries (US, Guatemala, Poland, Russia, Israel, Germany, Holland and Brazil), with a variety of interests. Some of us spent the whole Spring studying together Mayan syntax, morphology and phonology at the University of Maryland and preparing ourselves to the challenge.
I, Paulina, Masha, Carola and Chris met at the Reagan National Airport in Washington DC yesterday, from where we left for Guatemala City.
We then had a relaxed dinner with Rodrigo, another member of the team who was already in Guatemala. We spent the night in a hotel in Guatemala City and tomorrow after breakfast we will be leaving for Tecpán to meet the other researchers and start our work. The plan is to spend two weeks in Tecpán studying Kaqchikel and stay with local Kaqchikel families. After that we plan to stay in Patzún, where we will concentrate on our research projects.
In the next days, we will be posting an informal report of our activities and some useful information for field linguists.
I'm part of group of Linguistics grad students and professors who will spend 30 days studying Mayan languages in Guatemala. The team is led by Dr. Masha Polinsky, Dr. Omer Preminger and Dr. Pedro Mateo Pedro, three leading Mayan scholars. The whole project is a partnership between the Language Science Center of the Univeristy of Maryland and the NGO Wuqu' Kawoq, which provides health to impoverished communities in Guatemala. Our mission in Guatemala is twofold: (i) doing linguistics; and (ii) being the first team to work on the field station fruit of this partnership. Our team includes researchers from different countries (US, Guatemala, Poland, Russia, Israel, Germany, Holland and Brazil), with a variety of interests. Some of us spent the whole Spring studying together Mayan syntax, morphology and phonology at the University of Maryland and preparing ourselves to the challenge.
I, Paulina, Masha, Carola and Chris met at the Reagan National Airport in Washington DC yesterday, from where we left for Guatemala City.
We then had a relaxed dinner with Rodrigo, another member of the team who was already in Guatemala. We spent the night in a hotel in Guatemala City and tomorrow after breakfast we will be leaving for Tecpán to meet the other researchers and start our work. The plan is to spend two weeks in Tecpán studying Kaqchikel and stay with local Kaqchikel families. After that we plan to stay in Patzún, where we will concentrate on our research projects.
In the next days, we will be posting an informal report of our activities and some useful information for field linguists.
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