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Hupa includes: Natinixwe, Na:tinixwe, Natinook-wa, Na:tini-xwe, Hoopa
Date:undated, 2001-2004
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Blevins, Juliette
Subject:Linguistics | California--History | Folklore | Ethnography | Music
Type:Text | Cartographic
Genre:Correspondence | Books | Maps | Stories
Extent:0.1 linear feet
Description: In addition to copies of several small publications on Hupa history, stories and songs (Series 2), Bright possessed a sketch map of Shastan languages distributed throughout California (Series 5), and corresponded with several researchers, most significantly Juliette Blevins, in which there is a lexicon of plants and animals (Series 1).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
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Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ
Date:1992-1993
Contributor:Hitch, Doug | Harper, Kenn
Subject:Orthography and spelling | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Books | Essays
Extent:1 folder
Description: Douglas Hitch of Northwest Territories Education sent William Bright several publications related to the writing systems of Inuit languages.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
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Luiseño includes: Payómkawichum
Date:ca.1991-2003
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Elliott, Eric | Golla, Victor | Hill, Jane H. | Munro, Pamela | O'Neil, Stephen
Subject:Linguistics | Rites and ceremonies
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Books | Drafts | Vocabularies
Extent:0.25 linear feet
Description: William Bright corresponded with several linguists on the Luiseño language, including on Spanish loanwords, vocabulary and prosody (Series 1). Comparison between various Takic languages forms a lexical slip file (Series 5), and there is also a small publication (Series 2).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Makah includes: Kwih-dich-chuh-aht, Qʷidiččaʔa·tx̌
Date:1979
Contributor:Jacobsen, William H.
Subject:Linguistics | Language study and teaching
Type:Text
Genre:Books | Vocabularies | Grammars
Extent:1 volume
Description: Makah materials in William Bright's papers consist only of the book “First Lessons in Makah” by William H. Jacobsen (Series 2). For other work by William Jacobsen in the William O. Bright Papers, see Salinan materials.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Date:1983
Contributor:Ortiz Gomez, Francisco
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Extent:1 volume
Description: The only Mam item in William Bright's papers is a Spanish-language grammar of Qyol Mam (Series 2).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
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Date:1950s-1990s
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Sedat, Guillermo | Yool G., Juan
Subject:Linguistics | Folklore | Ethnopoetics | Poetry | Guatemala--History
Type:Text | Cartographic
Extent:0.25 linear feet
Description: William Bright's Maya file consists mostly of copies of others' publications, in particular texts produced by the SIL and other publishers in Guatemala (Series 2). He also performed ethnopoetics analysis on Mayan texts in preparation for a taught course in 1985, and drew a map of the languages of Central America.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Menominee includes: Menomini, Mamaceqtaw
Date:1976
Contributor:Wisconsin Native American Languages Project
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Books
Extent:1 folder
Description: William Bright's Menominee materials consist of multiple Menominee lexica from unclear sources, including one of 140 pages, and the book “An English Key to Bloomfield's Menominee Lexicon” (Wisconsin Native American Languages Project, 1976).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Date:1977
Contributor:Mithun, Marianne
Subject:Linguistics | Language study and teaching
Type:Text
Genre:Books | Dictionaries
Extent:1 volume
Description: William Bright possessed a copy of Marianne Mithun's edited volume “Iontenwennaweienstahkhwa'/Mohawk Spelling Dictionary” (Series 2).
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)
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Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho
Date:1954-2003
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Greenfeld, Philip J.
Subject:Language study and teaching | Linguistics | Folklore | Religion | Place names | Arizona--History
Type:Text
Genre:Books | Correspondence | Drafts | Place names
Extent:0.25 linear feet
Description: William Bright collected books (Series 2) and engaged in correspondence (Series 1) on “Hispanisms” (lexical borrowings from Spanish into Native American languages, collected in Series 5) and Navajo place names.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)