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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)
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Language:Papiamento | English | Spanish
Date:1951
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Netherlands Information Service | Lenz, Rodolfo
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Newspaper clippings | Correspondence | Stories | Drafts
Extent:1 folder
Description: William Bright copied and analyzed texts, mostly from a publication by Rodolfo Lenz, of Papiamento, and corresponded with the Netherlands Information Service on a Papiamento language newspaper (Series 4).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
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Patwin includes: Southern Wintun
Date:1959
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Bright, Elizabeth | Bill, Minnie, Mrs.
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Biographies | Field notes | Vocabularies
Extent:3 folders
Description: William Bright's few Patwin materials consist of a 14-page lexicon from the notes of Elizabeth Bright, words from Minnie Bill possibly in Patwin, and a set of index cards indicating phonemic contrasts (Series 4).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
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Language:Omaha-Ponca | English
Date:1994-1997
Contributor:Anderton, Alice J. | Bright, William, 1928-2006
Subject:Music | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Musical scores | Correspondence
Extent:1 folder
Description: William Bright corresponded with Alice J. Anderton on Anderton's transcriptions of Ponca (Omaha-Ponca) songs (Series 1).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
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Purépecha includes: Tarascan (pej.), P'urhépecha
Language:Purepecha | Purepecha, West Highland | English | Nahuatl (macrolanguage)
Date:1982, 2000-2002
Contributor:Wares, Alan Campbell | Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Gold, David L. | Aparacio, Odelon | Cruz, Rafaela de la
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography | Folklore | Michoacán de Ocampo--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notebooks | Field notes | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:0.1 linear feet
Description: William Bright's original work on Purépecha was the recording of lexical and grammatical elictations with consultants Odelon Aparacio and Rafaela de la Cruz, Ichupio, Michoacan, Mexico (Series 3 Subseries 1). Bright also analyzed its verbal morphology and discussed the borrowing of the word "tarascan" into Nahuatl (Series 1).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
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Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Weber, David
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Newspaper clippings | Magazines
Extent:4 folders
Description: William Bright's Quechua language file consists of correspondence with and about David Weber, with a particular focus on orthography (Series 1), Spanish-language newspaper clippings from Guatemala in 1980, and two copies of “Correo de Linguistica Andina” (Series 2).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
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Salinan includes: Salinian, Te'po'ta'ahl
Date:ca.1954-1996
Contributor:Jacobsen, William H. | Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Evans, Nancy | Mora, Joe | Mora, Dave
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text | Still Image
Genre:Correspondence | Field notes | Notebooks | Grammars | Vocabularies | Photographs
Extent:0.1 linear feet
Description: William Bright spent a “Salinan weekend” in Nipomo and Jolon, California, with Bill Jacobsen in 1954, discussed in correspondence with Nancy Evans alongside an original photograph of Dave Mora (Series 1). As a result of this and possibly other field trips, his Salinan materials consist of later correspondence with Bill Jacobsen (Series 1) and part of a field notebook with Joe Mora at Lockwood, California (Series 3 Subseries 1).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
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Seri includes: Comcaac
Language:Seri | Chontal, Highland Oaxaca | Chontal, Lowland Oaxaca | English | Karuk | Quechan
Date:1955, 2005-2006
Contributor:Moser, Edward W. | Marlett, Steve | Bright, William, 1928-2006
Subject:Linguistics | Place names
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Vocabularies | Drafts | Essays
Extent:0.1 linear feet
Description: William Bright's Seri papers consist of possible cognates between Seri, Chontal (unidentified variety), Karuk and Quechan, by Edward W. Moser, a copy of a Fortnight Magazine article, and comments on Steve Marlett's manuscript on "The Form and Use of Names in Seri", for publication in IJAL (Series 1).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
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Serrano includes: Taaqtam
Contributor:Hill, Kenneth C. | Johnston, Frank | Bright, William, 1928-2006
Subject:Linguistics | Place names | California--History | Coyote tales
Type:Text
Genre:Drafts | Books | Vocabularies
Extent:0.5 linear feet
Description: William Bright's Serrano materials mostly consist of correspondence with Kenneth C. Hill, including a Coyote story, lists and discussions of place names and etymologies, and phonology (Series 1). There is also a book on Serrano history and culture (Series 2) and a lexical slip file comparing many Takic languages (Series 5).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
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Date:1950, undated
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Sambo, Sargent | Wicks, Clara | Wicks, Fred | Murree, Frank | Bateman, Haynes | Brown, Fanny
Subject:Linguistics | Coyote tales | Folklore | California--History
Type:Text | Cartographic | Sound recording
Genre:Drafts | Vocabularies | Stories | Maps
Extent:0.1 linear feet
Description: William Bright made several audio recordings with Sargent Sambo in 1950 of Coyote tales, and a vocabulary, which can be found in Series 6. Among his other works, he was concerned with Shasta orthography, and developed a proposal for a new version, and derived lexica from others' published sources and archival notes (Series 4).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)