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 This includes several boxes of vocabulary slips, preparatory notes for a grammar of Chimariko, and notes and unpublished articles on various other aspects of Chimariko language and culture.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:Linguistic field recordings: linguistic data; ethnographic or ethnohistorical texts, untitled texts. Some English glosses provided.; Digitization supported by NEH Preservation/Access Grant
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Louisa Johnson and Catherine Wootton. The Catherine Wootton collection of Nootka sound recordings, LA 117, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10082.
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).
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: A big tide long ago., LA 117.003, in "The Catherine Wootton collection of Nootka sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/20494.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elicitation of adjectives such as 'bad, good, wet, dry, short, tall, etc.' and adjective-noun phrases such as 'old man.', LA 117.006, in "The Catherine Wootton collection of Nootka sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/20497.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elicitation of colors., LA 117.005, in "The Catherine Wootton collection of Nootka sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/20496.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elicitation of imperitives such as 'come, go, lie down, pull, etc.', LA 117.007, in "The Catherine Wootton collection of Nootka sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/20498.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elicitation of kinship terms such as 'grandchildren.', LA 117.008, in "The Catherine Wootton collection of Nootka sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/20499.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elicitation of numbers, LA 117.001, in "The Catherine Wootton collection of Nootka sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/20492.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elicitation of verb paradigms, for example 'I want to talk Indian.', LA 117.009, in "The Catherine Wootton collection of Nootka sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/20500.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elicitation of vocabulary (such as mountain, earthquake) and some short phrases., LA 117.002, in "The Catherine Wootton collection of Nootka sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/20493.
Description:Typed copy of an English-Nootka vocabulary list, with 2-page introduction by Swadesh. Original dated 1952 April. Per APS catalog for the original: "based on part 3 of Sapir and Swadesh (1939)".
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: English-Nootka vocabulary, Swadesh.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/1728.
Description:Printout on GreenBar paper of an alphabetically-arranged vocabulary list, with translations and a note that the vocabulary was “collected by M. Swadesh and T. Klokeid with the assistance of Lucy, Leo, and August and Julia Hanson and others at Atkis Island, May 1967”; compiled by T. J. Klokeid at the University of Hawaii, Pacific and Asian Linguistics Institute, January 1969.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Kyoquot to English Dictionary, 2014-21.004.033, 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/23159.
Description:Dictionary organized alphabetically by English headword. Undated photocopy of a computer printout, original dated 1967.
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Kyuquot dictionary, English to Kyuquot, Swadesh.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/1729.
Item number: 2014-21.002.092
Date: Aug 1969
Relations to this item:Jacobsen.005 replaced by this Item
Catalog history:Formerly was grouped with 2014-21.002.084, 2014-21.002.088, 2014-21.002.089, 2014-21.002.090, and 2014-21.002.091 and catalogued under the name Jacobsen.005
Extent:1 folder, 18 pages
Description:Manuscript presented at the 4th International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages, University of Victoria, August 25-26, 1969.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Labialization in Nootkan, 2014-21.002.092, 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/23067.
Description:Mimeograph of selections by Haas of texts by Sapir and Swadesh, dated 1963 and revised 1964; includes on photocopy.
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Linguistic texts for analysis, Haas.065, 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/924.
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:Miscellaneous materials including: a photocopy of someone’s handwritten notes entitled “The story of how Kwatyat went out for a walk (p. 40)”; a copy of someone’s class notes labeled “Ling 298, M.R.H., ‘Stems and Formative Suffixes in Nootka’”; a printout of notes entitled “The combining form q in Nootka stems”; a class roster, with grades, dated 1963; and various handwritten notes on Makah.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Makah misc., 2014-21.002.054, 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/23024.
Description:Research notes on labialization in Southern Wakashan languages; a manuscript entitled “Lablialization in Nootkan”, presented at the 4th Annual International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, Aug. 25-26, 1969; a letter from Terry Klokeid along with a draft manuscript entitled “Some irrelevant observations concerning rule interaction”; topically related scholarly correspondence.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Nootkan Labialization, 2014-21.002.052, 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/23022.
Description:Mimeographs of Parts 2-4 of "Readings in American Indian Linguistics", dated 1963, accompanied by three extra copies of Part 3. Also contains mimeographs of thumbnail sketches by Haas and her students on miscellaneous California languages. (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 Haas.063.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Haas.063.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Haas.063-image_metadata.txt.)
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Readings in American Indian linguistics, Haas.063, in "Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X20G3H32.
Description:Work presented at the Wakashan Linguistics Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, August 10, 2004. Other materials related to the conference are in 2014-21.005.003.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: The Subclassification of Southern Wakashan, 2014-21.002.093, 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/23068.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Unintroduced text., LA 117.004, in "The Catherine Wootton collection of Nootka sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/20495.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Unintroduced text., LA 117.010, in "The Catherine Wootton collection of Nootka sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/20501.
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Vocabulary September 1888; Nootka Vocabulary 1917, Henshaw.m002, 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/1302.
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: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.
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Materials from courses on Nuu-chah-nulth], Turner.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/14847.
Description:Folder containing correspondence with various researchers Jacobsen encountered in his academic life; includes a manuscript by Madison S. Beeler and Kenneth Whistler entitled “Coyote, Hawk, Raven, and Skunk (Barbareño Chumash)”; a two-page handout concerning Uto-Aztecan reconstruction, by Lloyd B. Anderson; a hand-drawn diagram entitled “Structure of the Nootka Aspect System” by Kenneth Whistler; and a manuscript by Alice C. Harris entitled “Transitivity and Rule Alignment” (Preliminary version, 1981).
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Miscellaneous academic correspondence], 2014-21.005.004, 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/23177.
Description:Brief diary of field trip to Port Alberni, British Columbia with some vocabulary and notes about speakers. (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.002.011.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Grekoff.002.011.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Grekoff.002.011-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Notes on a trip to Alberni, British Columbia], Grekoff.002.011, 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/X2S46PVT.
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