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: Lucy Kinsman and Sydney M. Lamb. Sydney M. Lamb Papers on California Indian Languages, Lamb, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2JW8BTD.
Associated materials: Audio recordings associated with the Papers are in the Berkeley Language Center, Berkeley, California (LA 31, LA 60, LA 80, LA 235, LA 236).
Scope and content: Linguistic field recordings: linguistic data; stories. English glosses provided. Translation to or from English.; Digitization supported by NEH Preservation/Access Grant
Repository: Berkeley Language Center
Preferred citation: Mary Chico, Sydney M. Lamb, and Hansjakob Seiler. The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings, LA 80, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10101.
Preferred citation: Elicitation from stickman diagrams (Pictures 43, 46, 50, 30, 41, 40, 47)., LA 80.019, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15750.
Preferred citation: Elicitation from stickman drawings (Pictures 1-15, 20-24, 26-29, 31-33, 36, 39, 42, 43)., LA 80.017, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15748.
Preferred citation: Elicitation of basic and complex sentences eg. use of the present continuous., LA 80.016, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15747.
Preferred citation: Elicitation of expressions concerning the weather, LA 80.022, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15753.
Preferred citation: Elicitation of numbers, LA 80.008, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15739.
Preferred citation: Elicitation of phrases, LA 80.013, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15744.
Preferred citation: Elicitation of words and phrases, LA 80.024, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15755.
Preferred citation: Elicitation of words and phrases (including action words i.e. stab, kill, etc.), LA 80.018, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15749.
Preferred citation: Elicitation of words and short phrases, LA 80.010, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15741.
Preferred citation: Elicitation of words for body parts, LA 80.009, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15740.
Preferred citation: Elicitation of words pertaining to the weather, LA 80.011, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15742.
Preferred citation: Elicitation of words related to animals, LA 80.012, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15743.
Preferred citation: Identification of words and phrases related to the weather, nature, etc. Also names of Indian tribes., LA 80.015, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15746.
Preferred citation: Short discussion about the Tubatulabal tribe name, LA 80.023, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15754.
Preferred citation: The Eagle and The Ant, LA 80.021, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15752.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Tubatulabal field notes], Lamb.003.020, in "Sydney M. Lamb Papers on California Indian Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14756.
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