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[Materials from courses on Nuu-chah-nulth]

  • Item identifier: Turner.001
  • Date: 1973 to 1980
  • Contributors: Mary R. Haas (researcher); Katherine Turner (researcher, donor); Kenneth W. Whistler (researcher)
  • Languages: Ditidaht (noo); Makah (myh); Nuu-chah-nulth (noo)
  • Description: Materials from courses taught by Mary Haas on Nuu-chah-nulth with a small amount of material on Makah and Ditidaht. Includes readings, term papers, and notes. Handouts, readings, and other texts include (by Mary Haas unless otherwise noted): Nootka Classifiers, Nootka Body Part Suffixes, a copy of Metaphors in Makah Neologisms by William Jacobsen, Structure of the Nootka Aspect System by Kenneth Whistler, A Nootka Text: Kwatyat and the Sunbeam Girls, Nootka Materials: The Consonant System & The Aspect System, Noun and Verb in Nootkan by William Jacobsen, Some Orthographic SYstems Used for Nootka and Nitinat, Bibliography on Nootkan Languages, The Solar Myth, notes on What Are Mosquitos Made Out of, notes on Taboos for Sea Mammal Hunting, Incremental Suffixes, notes on Deer and the Wolves, notes on Bluejay Transformer, handouts from Kenneth Whistler on the Nootka Aspectual System and also Personal and Placename Suffixes, notes on a text called Advice, a draft of a paper by Kenneth Whistler called Inverse Person Marking in Nootkan, a chart showing the Nuu-chah-nulth, Ditidaht, and Nuxalk consonant inventories, and an annotated copy of an excerpt from Sapir and Swadesh's Nootka Texts.
  • Availability: Materials for Item number Turner.001 are not digitized. Please email us at scoil-ling@berkeley.edu to schedule a visit, or to see if we can digitize them for you.
  • Extent: 1 folder
  • Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
  • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
  • Suggested citation: [Materials from courses on Nuu-chah-nulth], Turner.001, in "Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14847.