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 This includes several boxes of vocabulary slips, preparatory notes for a grammar of Chimariko, and notes and unpublished articles on various other aspects of Chimariko language and culture.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.
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: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Chemehuevi Salt Song, 24-310.12, in "The Leanne Hinton collection of Southwest Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/11536.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Clark Tanner's (Ute) peyote song, 24-2955, in "The O.C. Stewart collection of American Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/11138.
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.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Personal Sun Dance Song from the Utes, 24-2964, in "The D.B. Shimkin collection of Shoshone sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/12224.
Availability: Restricted. (Access only by depositor permission. Email scoil-ling@berkeley.edu to inquire.)
Description:See accession envelope for music department tape catalogue. Cylinders: 14-2652 through 14-2664. For recording details, see 24-2925 through 24-2942.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Songs: Northern Paiute, Washo, Uintah Ute, 24-300, in "Miscellaneous sound recordings from the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/11866.
Availability: Restricted. (Access only by depositor permission. Email scoil-ling@berkeley.edu to inquire.)
Description:See accession envelope for music department tape catalogue. Cylinders: 14-2677 through 14-2688. For recording details, see 24-2962 through 24-2973.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Songs: Shoshone, 24-302, in "Miscellaneous sound recordings from the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/11868.
Availability: Restricted. (Access only by depositor permission. Email scoil-ling@berkeley.edu to inquire.)
Description:See accession envelope for music department tape catalogue. Cylinders: 14-2665 through 14-2676. For recording details, see 24-2943 through 24-2961.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Songs: Washo, Northern Paiute, 24-301, in "Miscellaneous sound recordings from the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/11867.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Uintah Ute Peyote Song, 24-2941, in "The O.C. Stewart collection of American Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/11124.
Preferred citation: Waco discusses her childhood and gives related words and phrases: toys, food, plants, natural phenomena, animals, adjectives, etc. Comparison of Paiute and Chemehuevi., LA 205.004, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Chemehuevi sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19385.
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Preferred citation: Waco discusses her family, marriage, her language, her age, etc., LA 205.003, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Chemehuevi sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19384.
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Preferred citation: Words and phrases: conditionals (questions and statements), wanting, benefactives, reflexives, adjectives, animal brains, funeral/death related terms, family resemblances, etc., LA 205.011, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Chemehuevi sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/21338.
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Preferred citation: Words and phrases: describing people, colors, weather, clothing, household items, food and utensils, invitations, etc., LA 205.007, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Chemehuevi sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/21334.
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Preferred citation: Words and phrases: introductions, adjectives, animals, general questions, pierced ears, tatoos, etc., LA 205.002, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Chemehuevi sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19383.
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Preferred citation: Words and phrases: laughing, natural phenomena, matches, bodily problems, adjectives, commands, etc., LA 205.009, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Chemehuevi sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/21336.
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Preferred citation: Words and phrases: numbers and time, LA 205.006, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Chemehuevi sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/21333.
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Preferred citation: Words and phrases: pronouns in various phrases (about names, going places and making something), questions about well-being, questions with 'when' and 'why', etc., LA 205.010, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Chemehuevi sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/21337.
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Preferred citation: Words and phrases: terms for people, question words, feelings, commands, possession, animals, weather, adjectives, etc., LA 205.001, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Chemehuevi sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19382.
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Preferred citation: Words and phrases: tobacco and smoking, insect and animal names, adjectives, money, materials, hair, misc. verbs, commands, locative prepositions, etc., LA 205.008, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Chemehuevi sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/21335.
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Description:Handwritten notes on laryngealization in Kiowa, proofs for article in the International Journal of American Linguistics on Chimariko laryngealization, photocopies of papers on Kiowa laryngealization, and photocopies of sections from Sapir's grammar of Southern Paiute on laryngeals.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Notes on laryngealization], Grekoff.011.012, in "George Grekoff Papers on the Chimariko Language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/584.
Description:Folder of notes related to Uto-Aztecan reconstruction and especially to the work of Charles Voegelin and Kenneth Hale on this topic; includes correspondence with Ronald Langacker regarding a paper he presented at the LSA, entitled “The Vowels of Uto-Aztecan”; the letter is dated Jan. 23, 1970.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Voegelin and Hale], 2014-21.002.060, 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/23035.
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