Click filter to remove
Displaying 1 - 10 of 12
Culture:
Arapaho includes: Arapahoe
Date:2001
Contributor:Cowell, Andrew | Bright, William, 1928-2006
Subject:Folklore
Type:Text
Genre:Drafts | Correspondence
Extent:1 folder
Description: William Bright's only Arapaho item is correspondence with Andrew Cowell on his manuscript “Publishing Tales about Taking Horses”, about traditional Arapaho narratives (Series 1).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Language:Ohlone, Northern | English | Spanish
Date:1994-2004
Contributor:Callaghan, Catherine A. | Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Blevins, Juliette | Garrett, Andrew
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Correspondence | Drafts
Extent:2 folders
Description: William Bright's only Chochenyo (Ohlone) materials can be found in Series 1, and are correspondence with Catherine Callaghan, including an 8-page list of Spanish loanwords in Chochenyo (toward Bright's “Hispanisms” study), and Juliette Blevins and Andrew Garrett.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Dakota includes: Dakȟóta
Date:2003
Contributor:Koontz, John E. | Bright, William, 1928-2006
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Drafts
Extent:1 folder
Description: William Bright corresponded with John E. Koontz on the etymology of “Dakota”, including a 4-page manuscript draft from Koontz on the topic (Series 1).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
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)
Culture:
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:
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:
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)
Culture:
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)
Culture:
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)