Extent:34.21 linear feet (69 boxes and 1 envelope)
Historical information:George Grekoff (1923-1999) was a graduate student in linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Although he never completed a dissertation, he held a teaching position in linguistics and Russian at the University of Washington before pursuing a career outside the field of linguistics. However, he remained an avid scholar of Chimariko, and spent much of his spare time organizing the existing documentation of Chimariko.
Scope and content:The Papers document Grekoff's research on Chimariko and other indigenous languages of North America from the late 1950s until his death in 1999. There were no remaining speakers of Chimariko during Grekoff's lifetime, so the bulk of the collection consists of various notes and organizations of data collected by other linguists, especially John Peabody Harrington. This includes several boxes of vocabulary slips, preparatory notes for a grammar of Chimariko, and notes and unpublished articles on various other aspects of Chimariko language and culture. The collection also contains a small quantity of material on other indigenous languages of North America, including Grekoff's original field notes on Southeastern Pomo from 1957 and field notes on Nuu-chah-nulth, Skagit, and Kwak'wala from Grekoff's time at the University of Washington from 1962-1967, portions of which were collected as part of field methods courses taught by Grekoff. Grekoff's consultants were John and Effie Kelsey (SE Pomo), Odelia Hunter, Hyacinth David, and Winifred David (Nuu-chah-nulth), and Louise George (Kwak'wala).
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: George Grekoff. George Grekoff Papers on the Chimariko Language, Grekoff, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2NC5Z4H.
Scope and content:The materials document Katie Sardinha's fieldwork on Kwak'wala during the period of 2014-2015, working with various Kwakwaka'wakw elders to study a range of semantic and syntactic topics. The collection includes original audio recordings and transcriptions of the recordings. Each transcriptions also contain a list of vocabulary encountered in the elicitation session. Main topics covered include the linguistic expression of causation, unaccusativity, psych verbs, intensifiers, and short narratives.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Violet Bracic, Mildred Child, Ruby Dawson Cranmer, and Katie Sardinha. Katie Sardinha's Kwak'wala Fieldwork Collection, 2014-11, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2K0727F.
Collection number: 2014-21
Relations to this collection:Jacobsen replaced by this Collection; 2018-32 derives from this Collection
Catalog history:The Materials replace SCL Jacobsen, the "William H. Jacobsen Papers on Indigenous Languages of North America"
Historical information:William H. Jacobsen (1931-2014) was born on November 15, 1931 in San Diego, CA to Cmdr. William H. Jacobsen, USN ret., and Julie Froatz Jacobsen. He graduated from Point Loma High School, San Diego, in 1949, and went on to graduate from Harvard University in 1953. Jacobsen then pursued graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley where he engaged in fieldwork on Salinan and Washo under the auspices of the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages. While at UC Berkeley, he also worked on an early machine language translation project. He received his Doctoral Degree from UC Berkeley in 1964 with a thesis entitled “A Grammar of the Washo Language”, supervised by Mary Haas, which endures as the most complete grammar of Washo published to date. He also worked as an assistant professor of anthropology (1961-1962) and linguistics (1962-1964) at the University of Washington, spending many of his summers in Neah Bay, WA, working with Makah elders to record their language. Most of Jacobsen’s academic career was spent as a professor of linguistics at the University of Nevada, Reno where he taught for thirty years (1965-1994). Throughout his academic career Jacobsen was a prolific and versatile scholar, devising writing systems, creating materials for teaching tribal members Washo and Makah, and publishing many papers on linguistic topics. Jacobsen was an active contributor within the Americanist linguistic community not only through his research, which touched upon a diverse array of languages from Hokan to Wakashan and beyond, but also through steady correspondence and collaboration with colleagues and students. In addition to his work on indigenous languages of North America, Jacobsen was well-known for his extensive work on Basque, which he engaged in through his involvement in the Center for Basque Studies at UNR. Altogether, Jacobsen was familiar with all the main Romance languages and Sanskrit in addition to being a specialist in Washo, Makah, Salinan, Nez Perce, Nootkan, and Basque. He served as president of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas, received the Outstanding Researcher Award from the University of Nevada, and received the Nevada Humanities Award. Jacobsen officially retired from UNR in 1994 but continued to engage with the linguistics community as an emeritus professor. Jacobsen passed away on August 18, 2014 in Reno, NV, at age 82.
Scope and content:These materials document the linguistic work of William H. Jacobsen on various indigenous languages of North America, especially Washo, Makah, and Salinan, as well as on other languages and linguistic topics Jacobsen came into contact with throughout his academic career. The collection includes Jacobsen’s original field notebooks from work on Washo, Makah, and Salinan, as well as smaller aggregates of field notes on Diegueño, Northern Paiute, Kwak’wala, and Cowichan. In addition to original field notes, the collection includes derived research notes; many of these derived materials were organized by Jacobsen into separate folders by topic, and have been catalogued as they were found in order to reflect Jacobsen’s own organization. These research notes encompass work on Washo, Makah and other Southern Wakashan languages, Salinan, Yana and other Hokan languages, other Californian languages, and other topics related to general linguistic theory. A set of finished or near-finished manuscripts and handouts is also included, in many cases constituting completed work derived from Jacobsen’s research notes. Also included are transcriptions of texts and conversations in Washo and Makah, notes from collaborative work with Grace Dangberg on Washo texts, and materials Jacobsen developed in order to teach both Washo and Makah. Original file slips from Jacobsen’s work in organizing lexical material from Washo, Makah, Salinan, comparative Wakashan and Hokan, and Tagalog are also included. In addition to materials from Jacobsen’s original fieldwork and research, the collection includes a wealth of materials that Jacobsen obtained from other researchers. These obtained materials include an extensive collection of original Washo field notebooks originally belonging to Grace Dangberg, Gordon Marsh, Walter Dyk, Phillip Barker and William Shipley, and Brooke Mordy. In addition, the collection includes file slips and derived field notes from various sources. On Washo, these materials include Gordon Marsh’s file slips, research notes from Grace Dangberg and Walter Dyk, and photocopies of various vocabulary lists obtained from the Smithsonian Institution; on Wakashan, this includes a set of file slips from an unknown source; and on Yana, this includes a variety of research notes and a box of file slips obtained from Bruce Nevin, along with various photocopied materials on Yana obtained from museums. Other obtained materials include derived work on Washo texts by Brooke Mordy and on Yahi by T. T. Waterman, a collection of rare, unpublished, or difficult to obtain manuscripts concerning various North American indigenous languages, and published curricular materials on Washo and Makah. Various materials related to Jacobsen’s academic, scholarly, and teaching activities are catalogued as a separate series in the collection, in addition to being scattered throughout Jacobsen’s research notes. Finally, the collection includes a set of sound recordings that were discovered in Jacobsen’s possession but are not otherwise catalogued in earlier CLA collections. These recordings include recordings of Washo, Makah, Bella Coola, Ibo, Abaza, and at least one other unidentified language; some of the recordings were made by Jacobsen with various identified consultants, while others were obtained from colleagues including Brooke Mordy, Laura Fillmore, and Warren d’Azevedo, among possible others.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: William H. Jacobsen. William H. Jacobsen Materials on Indigenous Languages of North America, 2014-21, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2028PGT.
Associated materials:Audio recordings associated with the Materials can be accessed online through the California Language Archive. In particular, audio recordings are located in The William H. Jacobsen, Jr. collection of Antoniaño Salinan sound recordings (LA 69), The William H. Jacobsen, Jr. collection of Washo sound recordings (LA 53), and the William H. Jacobsen, Jr. collection of Makah sound recordings (LA 52).
Description:Undated photocopy of University of Victoria master's thesis. Original dated May 1969.
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: A Kwakiutl phonology, Grubb.001, in "Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/2517.
Description:Elicitation on various topics, including: causatives, passives, and purpose clauses, by-phrases, and the adverb meaning 'by itself'; indirect causation; prevention; semantic reflexivity.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Kwak'wala elicitation on causatives and unaccusativity 1, 2014-11.002, in "Katie Sardinha's Kwak'wala Fieldwork Collection", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2G73BN3.
Description:Elicitation on various topics, including: instrument subjects; 'by itself'; complex causal events; events as causes; 'let' causatives; 'to do on purpose'; negative events as causes; 'see' vs. 'show'; causatives of 'remember' and 'forget'; 'understand' and 'explain'; the expression of connected events, signs, and signals.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Kwak'wala elicitation on causatives and unaccusativity 2, 2014-11.003, in "Katie Sardinha's Kwak'wala Fieldwork Collection", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2BG2KZT.
Description:Elicitation on various topics, including: sociative causation; 'to work'; 'to know from experience'; 'to make'; causatives of ditransitives; translations of English causal connectives; bodily process verbs and 'by itself'; 'cause to forget'; 'alone'; 'by itself' in non-matrix positions; weather verbs.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Kwak'wala elicitation on causatives and unaccusativity 3, 2014-11.004, in "Katie Sardinha's Kwak'wala Fieldwork Collection", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X26Q1V62.
Description:Translations and judgments in context involving the Kwak'wala intensifiers olək'ala, tluma, and walas, as well as a few judgments involving gwalha 'to stop, finish'. We look at whether these predicates can felicitously modify a range of predicates in context.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Kwak'wala elicitation on intensifiers, 2014-11.008, in "Katie Sardinha's Kwak'wala Fieldwork Collection", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2PN93KK.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Kwak'wala elicitation on the linguistic expression of causation, 2014-11.001, in "Katie Sardinha's Kwak'wala Fieldwork Collection", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2KW5D0N.
Description:Elicitation on various topics, including: causal situations with a large variety of verbs; intentional versus unintentional and direct versus indirect causation; mental causation. Contains a semi-elicited narrative about committing something to memory.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Kwak'wala elicitation on various topics, 2014-11.006, in "Katie Sardinha's Kwak'wala Fieldwork Collection", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2Z60M0R.
Description:Elicitation of various topics, including: verbs of saying; causal situations with the verbs 'to sneeze', 'to laugh', and 'to run'; ambiguity with 'almost'. Violet tells a short story, in Kwak'wala and English, about a time she traveled with some school children to Knight's Inlet, stopping off at Village Island. Also includes a short semi-elicited text about a woman named Betty, related to remembering.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Kwak'wala elicitation on various topics, 2014-11.005, in "Katie Sardinha's Kwak'wala Fieldwork Collection", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X22Z13GQ.
Description:Elicitation on various topics, including: sleeping and dreaming; causal situations with various verbs; (in)direct causation and (un)intentional causation; events as causes; 'to support, lean on each other (e.g. while walking)'; causal events spanning more than one day; causatives with varying levels of 'control' of the causee. Also contains two short texts, one where Violet talks about a dream she had, and a semi-elicited narrative about a man named Eddie who keeps changing his mind about what colour to paint his house.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Kwak'wala elicitation on various topics, 2014-11.007, in "Katie Sardinha's Kwak'wala Fieldwork Collection", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2TD9V8G.
Description:Dictionary edited by Helene Boas Yampolsky. Undated verifax copy of typescript original; first of 2 volumes (450 pp. total).
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Kwakiutl dictionary, Boas.001.001, in "Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/166.
Description:Dictionary edited by Helene Boas Yampolsky. Undated verifax copy of typescript original; second of 2 volumes (450 pp. total).
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Kwakiutl dictionary, Boas.001.002, in "Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/167.
Description:Folder containing research notes, manuscripts, and photocopies of articles related to Jacobsen’s work on neologisms in Makah. Includes notes, handouts, and manuscripts in various stages of completion with the title “Metaphors in Makah Neologisms”; this topic was presented at, and published following, the 6th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Feb. 16-18, 1980. The folder also includes a schedule of the 6th Annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society and information regarding proceedings publication; a handout entitled “The Kiliwa Response to Hispanic Culture” by Mauricio J. Mixco on the theme of neologisms; a photocopy of an article entitled “Linguistic Acculturation on the West Coast of Vancouver Island” by Barbara S. Efrat; a photocopy of an article entitled “Linguistic Acculturation in Nitinat” by Terry Klokeid (1968); an abstract entitled “Notes on Makah Neologisms” and associated conference materials for the 20th Annual Meeting of the Northwest Anthropological Conference, Seattle, WA, March 23-25, 1967, where Jacobsen presented it; and a photocopy of an article entitled “Metaphorical Expression in the Language of the Kwakiutl Indians”.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Makah - Neologisms, 2014-21.002.047, in "William H. Jacobsen Materials on Indigenous Languages of North America", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23017.
Description:Mimeographed student papers featuring grammatical descriptions of several languages. Volume 3 of 3.
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Papers from the Seminar in American Indian Linguistics, Teeter.003.003, in "Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/2596.
Description:Undated verifax copy of pages 45-74 of a typed comparative Wakashan vocabulary, original dated 1952 February. Per American Philosophical Society library catalog, "Introduction: study compiled by Morris Swadesh on the basis of Sapir's Wakashan comparative notes."
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Wakashan comparative vocabulary, Sapir.001, in "Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/1534.
Description:Field notes from elicitation on Kwak’wala with consultant Gloria Cranmer Webster, and on Cowichan (Island Halkomelum) with Chris Pane; also includes two pages of notes labeled “Cowichan, dictated by Art Kuipers and Wayne Suttles” and additional notes concerning research on the Pacific Northwest, and particularly on research within British Columbia.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Kwak'wala and Cowichan field notes, with notes on research in the Pacific Northwest], 2014-21.001.065, in "William H. Jacobsen Materials on Indigenous Languages of North America", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/22963.
Description:Vocabulary with some notes about consultants. (The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file Grekoff.002.010.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Grekoff.002.010.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Grekoff.002.010-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Kwak'wala field notes], Grekoff.002.010, in "George Grekoff Papers on the Chimariko Language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2WW7FK7.
Description:File slips containing vocabulary from various Northern Wakashan languages (predominantly Heiltsuk), as well as borrowings from neighboring and related languages; the original maker of the file slips is unknown.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Northern Wakashan File Slips], 2014-21.004.002, in "William H. Jacobsen Materials on Indigenous Languages of North America", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23128.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Nuu-chah-nulth vocabulary and grammar], Grekoff.001.043, in "George Grekoff Papers on the Chimariko Language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/493.
Description:File slips comparing vocabulary items across languages in the Southern Wakashan ('Nootkan') and Chemakuan language families; a few slips also contain words from neighboring Salish languages and the Northern Wakashan language Kwak’wala (‘Kwakiutl’).
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Southern Wakashan-Chimakuan Comparative Vocabulary], 2014-21.002.018, in "William H. Jacobsen Materials on Indigenous Languages of North America", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/22986.
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