DOI: 10.7488/7a2b9fe7-6d42-45a4-9e90-19dfe262fb4d
title: As (ISO 639-3: asz) Collection

description: The following datasets are part of the Collection:
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). ASZ004 - As - Possessive and verbal subject-marking paradigms, 2020 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7612.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). ASZ005 - As - Verbal subject-marking and pronominal paradigms; Conversational questionnaires (Dialogues A 'We're going fishing' and F 'Lifting stones'), 2020 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7613.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). ASZ011 - As - Basic words (plants, animals, people, body parts, verbs), 2023 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7619.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). ASZ006 - As - Verbal subject-marking paradigms; Conversational questionnaires (Dialogues D 'A family photo album' and E 'A boy falls'), 2020 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7614.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). ASZ003 - As - Basic words (landscape, plants, animals, humans, verbs, numerals, qualities, and cultural items; Speaker: Hamid Mayor), 2020 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7611.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). ASZ007 - As - Verbal subject-marking and possessive paradigms; morphosyntactic data, 2020 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7615.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). ASZ008 - As - A discussion of the status of As in the community, 2020 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7616.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). ASZ010 - As - Basic vocabulary (animals, cultural items, qualities, numerals, humans), 2023 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7618.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). ASZ009 - As - Basic words (landscape, plants), 2023 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7617.
*Arnold, Laura (2023). ASZ002 - As - The history of the As, 2020 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh, School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences, Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7549.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). ASZ001 - As - First lessons [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy. Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7547.
description: This collection forms part of a community of linguistic datasets https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/8573.

As [ISO 639-3: asz, Glottocode: asss1237] was historically spoken in three villages on the northwest coast of the Bird's Head peninsula. According to oral histories, the As founded these villages a few hundred years ago, having been sent by the sultan of Tidore in Halmahera to bring Islam to the region. Since then, the As have lived alongside speakers of Moi [mxn, moi1235], an unrelated language belonging to the West Bird's Head family. Unfortunately, As is now moribund, with only four or five elderly speakers remaining. The dominant language of the villages today is Moi; younger generations are monolingual in Papuan Malay.

This collection largely comprises elicited lexical and morphosyntactic data. There is a list of basic words (around 150, recorded in isolation, utterance-final, and utterance-medial contexts), as well as data on the verbal subject agreement and possessive-marking paradigms. The collection includes material from both male and female speakers, all of whom are in their 60s and older. Typically, each item contains an audio recording (.wav), the accompanying field notes (.pdf), a metadata file (.txt), and a record of speaker consent (.pdf). As well as the raw recordings of the individual sessions, the segmented audio files of some sessions are provided as a separate item, to facilitate searches on a particular word or construction.
description: Arnold, Laura M. (2023). As (ISO 639-3: asz) (2023). University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language. https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/8574