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Date:undated
Subject:Linguistics | Place names
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Place names
Extent:0.75 linear feet
Description: William Bright created a comparative Takic lexical file, ordered in English, from Harrington, that included Kitanemuk (Series 5).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
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Kumeyaay includes: Kumiai, Diegueño, Kamia, Tipai-Ipai
Date:1960
Contributor:Shipek, Florence | Brown, Sam | Felisho, Margaret | Rosales, Manuel | Cuero, Waldo | Coleman, Kate | Gordon, Stella | Valle, Carlotta | Osuna, Martin | Duro, Porfiria | Paipa, Caroline | Couro, Ted | Lechappa, Christina | Bright, William, 1928-2006
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks | Field notes | Vocabularies
Extent:2 notebooks
Description: In 1960, William Bright produced two field notebooks with many speakers of Kumeyaay/Diegueño, filled with wordlists and phrases, and including the details of many other speakers that he was not able to meet (Series 3 Subseries 1).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
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Kwtsaan includes: Quechan, Yuma, Yuman
Date:ca.1955-2006
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Munro, Pamela | Halpern, Abraham M. (Abraham Meyer), 1914-1985 | Moser, Edward W.
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Vocabularies | Drafts
Extent:3 folders
Description: William Bright produced a list of stem morphemes from A. M. Halpern's publications (Series 4). He also corresponded with Edward W. Moser on possible neighboring language cognates, as well as in extensive general correspondence with Pamela Munro. These can be found in Series 1.
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)
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Muscogee includes: Muskogee, Mvskoke, Muscogee Creek
Date:1962
Contributor:Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958 | Bright, William, 1928-2006
Subject:Linguistics | Place names
Type:Text
Genre:Drafts | Curricula | Vocabularies
Extent:2 folders
Description: William Bright's Muscogee language materials consist of class handouts prepared in 1962 on morphology, and a 3-page list of place names found in publications by John Swanton and elsewhere, both in Series 4.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
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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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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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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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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)