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Culture:
Apache, Western includes: Apache, San Carlos
Language:Apache, Western | Jicarilla | English | Spanish
Date:1981-2003
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Greenfeld, Philip J. | Vicenti, Carson
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Vocabularies | Dictionaries | Books
Extent:3 folders
Description: William Bright's Apache file consists mostly of correspondence with Philip Greenfeld, particularly of Spanish loanwords into Western Apache (Series 1). There is also a Jicarilla Apache dictionary, with marginalia by Bright, in Series 2.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Mohican includes: Mahican, Muhhekunneuw
Date:1995-2002
Contributor:Masthay, Carl | Bright, William, 1928-2006
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Dictionaries | Drafts
Extent:1 folder
Description: William Bright's only Mahican language materials are correspondence with Carl Masthay on corrections and additions to one of Masthay's publications (Series 1).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Language:Nahuatl (macrolanguage) | Nahuatl, Isthmus-Pajapan | English | Spanish
Date:ca.1940s-2003
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Canger, Una | Karttunen, Frances | Campbell, Lyle | Lockhart, James | Bernardino, de Sahagún, 1499-1590
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography | Folklore | Language study and teaching | Ethnopoetics | Poetry | Coyote tales | Mexico--History
Type:Text
Genre:Books | Correspondence | Drafts | Vocabularies | Grammars | Dictionaries | Poems | Field notes | Stories
Extent:2 linear feet
Description: William Bright's Nahuatl materials are sizeable and cover his entire research life, mostly consisting of his own work from the 1960s and 1990s (Series 4), and many copies of small publications throughout his life (Series 2). Of note in the small publications is almost every issue of “Nahua Newsletter” (Indiana University) between 1986 and 2004, issues 1-18 of “Mexihkatl Itonalama”, and several 1940s-1960s SIL-archived publications. From his own work (Series 4) are interlinear glosses of Nahuatl texts, materials in preparation for taught courses at UCLA, products of brief fieldwork in Ixmiquilpan, Mexico, 1966, working versions of two of his own publications, and further linguistic analysis. He also corresponded with several linguists on Nahuatl varieties (Series 1), including Una Canger, who gave him a copy of the Copenhagen Nahuatl Dictionary Project.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Tzotzil includes: Tsotsil
Date:1949, undated
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Weathers, Kenneth | Weathers, Nadine
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text | Sound recording
Genre:Dictionaries
Extent:1 volume, 1 tape
Description: William Bright's only Tzotzil materials consist of a Tzotzil-Spanish-Tzotzil dictionary produced by the SIL in 1949 (Series 2), and an audio tape titled only “Tzotzil” (contents are as yet unidentified, Series 6).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)