Ecuadorian Quichua 3-4 Syllabus
June 2016 78 classroom hours.
Dr. Janis Nuckolls, Brigham Young University
Dr. Armando Muyulema, University of Wisconsin Madison
Dr. Tod D Swanson, Arizona State University
Michael Severino, MA
Objectives: On completing this class the student should be able to
1.Make social introductions, use greeting and leave-taking expressions.
2.Talking about spatial movement so as to be able to ask or give directions on how to get from one place to another.
3.Ask and answer simple questions about date and place of birth, nationality, marital status, occupation,
4.Make basic living arrangements such as renting a room or calling a taxi.
5.Be able make social introductions and use greeting and leave-taking expressions.
6.Buy needed items in a store.
7.Be able to understand simple sentences on these topics performed at normal speed by native speakers.
8.Be able to construct basic sentences in the present and past tenses with correct use of the direct object marker and word order.
9.Be able to use the noun suffixes -pi, -ma, -manda, -gama to describe movement in space.
10.Be able to ask yes/no question using the -chu question marker; and to answer positively or negatively using the forms -mi or mana -chu correctly.
II.Grading
6 Tests: 60%.
PowerPoint Quichua dialogues 40%.
Schedule (Subject to change)
Tuesday June 6:
9:30 AM Tour old Quito
12:00 Lunch at Real Audiencia
1:00 Chartered bus leaves for the Amazon
2:30Swim in the volcanic hot springs of Papallacta
1:00Guango Lodge Hummingbird site
3:00
6:PM Arrive at Iyarina
7:00 PM Dinner
Wednesday, June 7 5 classroom hours
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM Introduction to the History and Geography of the Region.
1:00 – 2:30 PM Lunch
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Introduction. Historical overview of Amazonian Quichua dialects. Pastaza Quichua, Tena Quichua
Teaching and learning goals. Some early reflections on Quichua. First impressions of other Amazonian languages
Orthographies of Ecuadorian Quichua. Cultural discussion points. The consonants and vowels of Pastaza and Tena Quichua
Resources:
Possessive + object marker in the sense of "for x"
Language for academic presentations
Discord, argument, and consensus
Conditional present tense (Quizlet)
Conditional with sentences in present tense (Quizlet)
Conditional past tense (Quizlet)
Conditional with sentences in past tense with -sha -kpi (Quizlet)
Phrases for interviewing and recording
Thursday, June 8 5 classroom hours
9:30-12:30
Lesson 1
1:00 – 2:30 PM Lunch
3:00-5:00
7:00 PMDinner
Friday, June 9 5 classroom hours
9:30-12:30
Lesson 2
1:00 – 2:30 PM Lunch
3:00 PM – 5:00 pm
Saturday and Sunday June 10-11
Monday, June 12 5 classroom hours
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Lesson 3
1:00 – 2:30 PM Lunch
3:00 PM – 5:00 pm
Tuesday, June 13 5 classroom hours
8:30Breakfast
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
1:00 – 2:30 PM Lunch
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM Quichua
Wednesday, June 14 5 classroom hours
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Lesson 5
1:00 – 2:30 PM Lunch
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Thursday, June 15 5 classroom hours
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Lesson 6
Articulating the perspectives of self and other with –mi and –shi
The speaking self –mi
The voice of the ‘other’ –shi
Questions with –shi
Affinal ‘others’
1:00 – 2:30 PM Lunch
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM Test over Vocabulary 1
Friday, June 16 5 classroom hours
9:30 AM – 12:30
Lesson 7
Body part terms
Impersonal verbs; first person object suffix -wa
Possessive markers
Numbers
3:00-5:00 Quichua
Possessives (Quizlet)
Possessives with nouns (Quizlet)
Saturday and Sunday, June 17 and 18:
Monday, June 19 5 classroom hours
9:30 AM – 12:30
Lesson 8
The polyfunctional suffix -ri
The reflexive suffix –ri
The cognitive suffix –ri
The bodily configurational suffix –ri
The low animacy suffix –ri
1:00 – 2:30 PM Lunch
3:00-5:00 Practice with native speakers.
Tuesday, June 20 5 classroom hours
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Lesson 9
The instrumental and comitative –wan
The despitative -was
The negative imperative ama-chu construction
The first person plural imperative –shun
3:00-5:00 Quichua
Exercise with negative imperative in 2nd person singular
Create a power point in Kichwa describing your childhood. Describe the places using the participle + locative construction. Present your power points.
Wednesday, June 21 5 classroom hours
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Lesson 10
The reciprocal suffix –naku
The conjunctive suffix –ndi
The exclusive suffix -pura
The limitative suffix -lya
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Lunch
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM Quichua language for talking about the weather. Performance goal: Be able to make small talk about the weather.
Part 2: Space and Time
Thursday, June 22 5 classroom hours
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Lesson 11
Purposive –ngaw
The durative suffix –u
Directional suffixes –ma and –manda
The immediate imperative forms –i and –ichi
1:00 – 2:30 PM Lunch
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Immediate imperative (Quizlet)
Purposive suffix -ngak (Quizlet)
Friday, June 23 5 classroom hours
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Lesson 12
The attributive –k
Locative suffixes (my Lesson 18: pp.146-149)
The past tense
Ideophonic adverbs
1:00 – 2:30 PM Lunch
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Exercise with past tense (Pastaza)
More practice with past tense using questions + -chu or -ra (Quizlet)
Saturday and Sunday, June 24 and 25:
Monday, June 26 3 classroom hours
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Lesson 14
Adverbs in Quichua
Co-reference suffix –sha (use pp. 116-121, my lesson 14)
Also, pp.57-58 of Sounds Like Life
1:00 – 2:30 PM Lunch
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Tuesday, June 27:
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Lesson 15
Switch reference suffix–kpi (use my Lesson 17, pp.138-145)
1:00 – 2:30 PM Lunch
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM Quichua
Wednesday, June 28 5 classroom hours
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM Final exam and assessment.
Thursday, June 29
Travel to Quito
Ecuadorian Quichua 2 Syllabus
Dr. Janis Nuckolls, Brigham Young University
Dr. Armando Muyulema, University of Wisconsin Madison
Dr. Tod D Swanson, Arizona State University
Michael Severino, MA
Course objectives:
1. Be able to use coreferential or dependent verbs in more complex sentences
2. Be able to ask and answer questions of how something is done
3. Be able to ask and answer questions of why something occurs.
4. Be able to carry out a simple interview on the demographics of a community
5. Be able to use the future tense and conditional tenses.
Grading:
6 Tests: 60%.
PowerPoint Kichwa dialogues 40%.
Schedule (subject to change
Monday, July 3 5 classroom hours
9:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Asking and answering questions of why. Suffixes -ngaj; ngawa. Work on dialogues in your “islands of competence.
1:00-2:30 Lunch
2:30-4:00 Amplify description of family history to include reasons for change or migration. Work with native speakers of transcription of Kichwa videos to improve comprehension.
Tuesday, July 4 5 classroom hours
9:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Lesson 16
Present perfect narrative -shka
Narrative past -shka
Past perfect –shka with ana
1:00 – 2:30 PM Lunch
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Assignment: Assume that you are a graduate student coming to do research in a Kichwa community of your choice. Write a dialogue telling a local person what kind of work you hope to carry out in their community.
Wednesday, July 5 5 classroom hours
9:30 AM – 1:00 PM
The future tense paradigm
Infinitive verb + nina ‘to plan, want, desire’
The immediate future –nga + rana ‘going to do something’ construction
The subjunctive
1:00 – 2:30 PM Lunch
Exercise with the future tense -nga rana
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Drills with temporal phrases. Test over new vocabulary.
Thursday July 6 5 classroom hours
9:30 AM – 1:00 PM
FLAS Graduate students travel to Yasuni
BYU Quichua undergraduates continue with Quichua at Iyarina
1:00 – 2:30 PM Lunch
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM BYU Quichua undergraduates continue with Quichua at Iyarina
Friday July 7 5 classroom hours
8:00 Breakfast
9-12 Class FLAS Graduate students Canoe in to Tiputini Biodiversity Station
BYU Quichua undergraduates continue with Quichua at Iyarina
1:00 Lunch
3-5 BYU Quichua undergraduates continue with Quichua at Iyarina
7:00 Diner
Saturday and Sunday July 8-9: FLAS Graduate Students at Tiputini Biodiversity Station
Monday July 10 No classes at Iyarina
8:00 Breakfast
9-12 FLAS Graduate students Canoe to Estación Científico Yasuní
BYU Quichua undergraduates Travel to Yasuni
1:00 Lunch
2-5
7:00 Diner
Tuesday, July 11 No classes at Iyarina
9:30 AM – 1:00 PM FlAS Graduate Students Travel to Iyarina
Wednesday, July 12 FLAS Graduate Quichua Resumes at Iyarina
9:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Lesson 18
Nominalized -y verb +tukuna for passives
Nominalized –y verb + pasana for perfective aspect
Nominalized –y verb + kalyarina for inceptive action
1:00-2:30 Lunch
2:30-4:00
Exercise with -y pasana and -y tukuna
Thursday, July 13 5 classroom hours
9:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Lesson 19
The conditional mood
Obligative verb + ana construction
Ideophones, aspect and co-reference
Inchoative -ya
1:00-2:30 Lunch
2:30-4:00 PM Continue listening to and writing simple dialogue on working with a community on environment issues. .
Friday, July 14 5 classroom hours
9:30 AM – 1:00 PM Work with medical Kichwa
1:00-2:30 Lunch
2:30-4:00 Write a dialogue on illness and health with a native speaker.
Test over the week’s work.
Saturday and Sunday, July 15 and 16
Monday, July 17 5 classroom hours
9:30 AM – 1:00 PM Language for talking about buying, selling and business
1:00-2:30Lunch
2:30-4:00 Language for hiring an assistant in a Kichwa community.
Practice writing dialogues around buying and selling. Use past and present tenses as well as verbs in dependent clauses.
Tuesday, July 18 5 classroom hours
9:30 AM – 1:00 PM Practice writing dialogues around interviewing for a job. Use past and present tenses as well as verbs in dependent clauses. Further work on business Kichwa. Language for talking about buying, selling, and business.
1:00-2:30 Lunch
2:30-4:00 Practice writing dialogues around buying and selling. Use past and present tenses as well as verbs in dependent clauses.
Wednesday, July 19
9:30 AM – 1:00 PM Language for participating in a community political meeting
1:00-2:30 Lunch
2:30-4:00 Practice writing dialogues around participating in a community meeting. Use past and present tenses as well as verbs in dependent clauses. Use polite and diplomatic speech.
Thursday, July 20 5 classroom hours
he final week focuses on interviewing traditional speakers, transcribing the interviews, discussing them and improving interview technique. Analysis of grammar and the learning of new vocabulary comes from working with instructors on interview texts.
8:30 Breakfast
9:30 AM – 1:00 PM Students interview native speaker course assistants in pairs on selected topics. Questions are carefully prepared ahead of time.
1:00 – 2:30 PM Lunch
2:30 PM – 4:00PM Transcriptions and analysis of Kichwa interview videos.
Friday, July 21 5 classroom hours
8:30Breakfast
9:30 AM – 1:00 PM Students interview native speaker course assistants in pairs on selected topics. Questions are carefully prepared ahead of time.
1:00 – 2:30 PM Lunch
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Transcriptions and analysis of Kichwa interview videos.
Saturday and Sunday, July 22 and 23
Monday, July 24 5 classroom hours
8:30 Breakfast
9:30 AM – 1:00 PM Students interview native speaker course assistants in pairs on selected topics. Questions are carefully prepared ahead of time.
1:00 – 2:30 PM Lunch
2:30 PM – 4:00PM Transcriptions and analysis of Kichwa interview videos.
Tuesday, July 25 5 classroom hours
8:30 AM Breakfast
9:30 AM – 1:00 PM Kichwa class meets
1:00 – 2:30 PM Lunch
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Kichwa class meets
7:00 PM Dinner
Wednesday, July 26:
8:30 AM Breakfast
9:30 AM – 1:00 PM Kichwa course wrap up. Presentation of student projects.
1:00 – 2:30 PM Lunch
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Final exam and IRIS Assessment.
7:00 PMDinner
Thursday July 27 Travel to Quito
Travel to Quito.