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Apache, Western includes: Apache, San Carlos
Language:Apache, Western | Jicarilla | English | Spanish
Date:1981-2003
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Greenfeld, Philip J. | Vicenti, Carson
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Vocabularies | Dictionaries | Books
Extent:3 folders
Description: William Bright's Apache file consists mostly of correspondence with Philip Greenfeld, particularly of Spanish loanwords into Western Apache (Series 1). There is also a Jicarilla Apache dictionary, with marginalia by Bright, in Series 2.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
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Date:1977; 1996-1999
Contributor:Hill, Jane H. | Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Kennard, Edward A. (Edward Allan), 1907-1989 | Yava, Albert
Subject:Linguistics | Folklore | Language study and teaching
Type:Text
Genre:Books | Correspondence | Vocabularies | Stories
Extent:2 folders
Description: William Bright conversed with Jane H. Hill on Spanish borrowings into Hopi (“Hispanisms”, Series 1 and Series 5), and possessed a copy of the book “Field Mouse Goes to War”, a bilingual Hopi story (Series 2).
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)
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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:
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)
Culture:
Mixe includes: Ayuukjä'äy
Chontal, Oaxaca includes: Tequistlatec, Tequistlateco
Chocho includes: Chocholteco, Chochotec, Chochon, Ngigua, Ngiwa
Language:English | Spanish | Mixe | Chocholtec | Klamath-Modoc | Chontal, Highland Oaxaca
Date:1895-1902
Contributor:Belmar, Francisco, 1859-1910
Subject:Orthography and spelling | Linguistics | Language study and teaching | Mexico--History | Oaxaca (Mexico : State)--History
Type:Text
Extent:2 items
Description: Two items by Mexican linguist Francisco Belmar. The first item, "Las lenguas habladas por Los Indigenos and Indian tribes of the state of Oaxaca and their languages," includes a lengthy exposition on Mexican languages, emphasizing relationships with, and discussing Mixe, Zoque, Chontal, and Chochotec (intended for delivery at a session of the International Congress of Americanists, 1895, but never delivered) and a pencil draft of Belmar (1902) [See also Belmar (1902)]. The second item, "Curso de Lengua Mixe," is a brief elementary textbook for teaching Mixe to Spanish speakers, complete with exercises, texts, and lexical comments.
Collection:Writings on Mexican languages, 1895-1902 (Mss.497.4.B412c)