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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)
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Date:1959-1995
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Beeler, Madison Scott, 1910- | Harrington, J. P. (John P.), 1865-1939 | McLendon, Sally | Johnson, John | Hvolboll, Elizabeth Erro
Subject:Linguistics | Place names | Ethnography
Type:Text | Cartographic
Genre:Newspaper clippings | Magazines | Drafts | Vocabularies | Maps
Extent:0.25 linear feet
Description: Beginning with fieldwork in around 1959-1960 with Marie de Soto at Santa Barbara, California, Bright continued to collected materials in Chumashan languages and villages throughout his life. A short field notebook can be found in Series 3 Subseries 2, along with a large topical folder on Chumash in Series 4. Correspondence on “Hispanisms” (Spanish borrowings into Native languages, Series 1, and the card file in Series 5) is also of note.
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:
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)
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)
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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)
Culture:
Washo includes: Wašiw, Washoe, Waashiw
Date:ca.1969
Contributor:Jacobsen, William H. | Harrington, J. P. (John P.), 1865-1939 | Bright, William, 1928-2006
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography | Folklore
Type:Text
Genre:Drafts | Grammars | Vocabularies | Correspondence
Extent:2 folders
Description: William H. Jacobsen sent William Bright correspondence on Washo stems in addition to a draft manuscript describing J. P. Harrington's Washo language work, both in Series 1.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)