Historical information: Sydney M. Lamb is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Yale University (1951) and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley (1957). His doctoral dissertation was a grammar of the Mono language based on fieldwork conducted around North Fork, California in the summers of 1953 and 1954. He was a Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley from 1958-1964 and Yale University from 1968-1977. He left academia to work in the computer industry from 1977-1981, but subsequently joined the faculty of the Department of Linguistics at Rice University, where he has spent the remainder of his academic career.
Scope and content: The Papers document Lamb's research on Indian languages of California and surrounding areas from 1953-1955. One microfilm reel in the collection also includes copies of Victor Golla's notebooks from his fieldwork on Hupa at Hoopa Valley in the summer of 1963; for more details, see details under the Victor Golla Papers on the Hupa Language.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Arthur Anderson and Harry Austin and Helen Belles and Ned Belles and Elizabeth Bethel and Gilbert Bethel and Rosalie Bethel and John Blossom and Margaret Bob and George Cashbaugh and Minnie Chatovich and Roy Chatovich and Mary Chico and Clayton and Daisy Coleman and Fred Collins and George Decroy and George Dick and Dorothy and Emma Duckey and Florence Duckey and Irene Edmo and Lizzie Edmo and Willy Edmo and Nellie Enom and Charlie Evening and Minnie Fulwider and Sadie George and Johnny Gibbs and Andrew Glenn and Charles Goodwin and George Gregory and Rob Harry and Robert Hicks and Annie Jefferson and Kitt Joe and Hazel Johnson and Lula Johnson and Susan Johnson and Lester Jones and Mark Jones and Winnie Jones and Joe Kinsman and Lucy Kinsman and Hausen Lavell and George Little and Frank Logan and Maggie and Gladys Mankins and Tom Marshall and Maggie Marvin and Manda Marvin and Grover McCloud and Minnie McGown and May Meredith and Cayuse Mike and Minnie Mike and Harry Miller and Ira Miller and Mrs. Harry Miller and Jim Nevers and Jim Osborne and Mike Pablo and Tony Pablo and Lucy Pete and Mike Phillips and Molly Pimono and Willy Pimono and Pike Piper and Rosie Piper and Tom Primo and Anita Pryor and Mike Reilly and Bill Sherman and Andy Slaven and Pete Snap and Laura Somersal and Bob Somerville and Maggie Spencer and Tom Stone and Susie and Mamie Taylor and Tommy Thacker and Cy Thomas and Steve Tulley and Jose Vera and Willy Wagonner and Addie Walsay and Annie Wenz and Mrs. Wiatt and Mary Williams and Minnie Williams and Jim Wright and Nancy Wyatt and Doris Yee and Stefana de Salazar and Sydney M. Lamb. . Sydney M. Lamb Papers on California Indian Languages, SCL Lamb, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2JW8BTD
Description: Field notebook labeled "U" containing words, phrases, and sentences in Mono (Benton, Big Pine, Bishop, Fish Springs, Independence, Northfork, Oasis, and Round Valley dialects) and Mono Lake Northern Paiute. Includes several loose pages indexing data contained in the notebook.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Harry Austin, Minnie Chatovich, Roy Chatovich, Emma Duckey, Rob Harry, Lucy Kinsman, Sydney M. Lamb, May Meredith, Minnie Mike, Harry Miller, Ira Miller, Mrs. Harry Miller, Pike Piper, Rosie Piper, Bob Somerville, Maggie Spencer, Tom Stone, Mary Williams, Minnie Williams, and Jim Wright. [Mono field notes], Lamb.003.021, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14757
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