Historical information:Jesse O. Sawyer (1918-1986) received his Ph.D. in English and Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1955. From 1957-1962 he was the director of the English Program for Foreign Students in the Department of Speech at UC Berkeley, then a Senior Lecturer in linguistics from 1962 until his death in 1986. From 1961 onwards he was also the Director of UC Berkeley's Language Lab, now the Berkeley Language Center. Over the course of his career he worked on a variety of topics related to the indigenous languages of California, especially the documentation of Wappo in close cooperation with speaker Laura Fish Somersal.
Scope and content:The Papers document Sawyer's nearly three decades of research on indigenous languages of California, especially members of the Yukian family. The collection includes Wappo field notes collected from the late 1950s to the 1980s and derived materials such as vocabulary files and descriptive and comparative articles. His principal Wappo consultant was Laura Fish Somersal, with additional data provided by Jack Wobo. Sawyer's Yuki consultants were Minnie Fulwider, Arthur Anderson, and Leland Fulwider. The collection also includes Sawyer's notes and linguistic data from other languages of California taken from various published and unpublished sources.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Laura Somersal and Jesse O. Sawyer. Jesse O. Sawyer Papers on Yukian Languages, Sawyer, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2PC309Q.
Associated materials:Audio recordings associated with the Papers are in the Berkeley Language Center, Berkeley, California (LA 56, LA 88, LA 90, LA 102).
Historical information:Robert Louis Oswalt, Pomoan language scholar, received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1961. His fieldwork on Kashaya (Southwestern Pomo) began in 1957 and led to his dissertation, A Kashaya Grammar, and the publication of the book Kashaya Texts in 1964. Dr. Oswalt continued to work on Pomoan languages until 2005, conducting fieldwork on Kashaya, Southern Pomo, Northeastern Pomo, Northern Pomo, and Central Pomo and exploring the historical relationships within the Pomoan family. The Kashaya, Southern Pomo, and Central Pomo dictionaries that Dr. Oswalt compiled during his decades of fieldwork on those languages were never published.
Scope and content:These Papers document the linguistic work of Robert Oswalt, including his fieldwork on Pomoan languages and Yuki, Kru-Gbato, Aleut, and Bribri, his research on historical linguistics and other linguistic topics, and his professional activities. The papers include field notebooks containing vocabulary and elicited sentences for Kashaya, Southern Pomo, Northeastern Pomo, Northern Pomo and Central Pomo, with additional longer texts in Kashaya and Southern Pomo, vocabulary file slips for Kashaya, Southern Pomo, and Central Pomo, as well as notes on grammar and Pomoan cognates. His primary consultants for Kashaya were Essie Parrish and Bernice Scott Torrez, and his Kashaya consultants also included David Antone, Violet Parrish Chappelle, Gladys James Gonzales, Allen James, Herman James, Mary James, Milton (Bun) Lucas, Vana Lawson, Kate Marando, Julia Pinola Marrufo, Sidney Parrish, and Vivian Wilder. His primary consultants for Southern Pomo were Elsie Allen and Elizabeth Dollar and his Southern Pomo consultants also included Olive Fulwilder Effie Mabel Luff, Lucy Andrews Macy, and Laura Fish Somersall. His Northeastern Pomo consultants included Oscar McDaniel and Sharky Moore, his Northern Pomo consultants included Annie Lake and Edna Guerrero, and his Central Pomo consultants included Salome Bartlett Alcantra, Frank Luff, and Clara Williams. He conducted Aleut fieldwork with consultant Kathryn Seller and Bribri fieldwork with consultant Guillermina Nelson-Rodrigues. His consultants for Yuki included Arthur Anderson and Bill Frank. The Papers include oral histories collected from linguist Abraham Halpern and Pomoan language consultants Essie Parrish, Elizabeth Dollar, Elsie Allen as well as photocopies of Kashaya and Southern Pomo genealogical and census records and other documents and material related to Pomoan languages, ethnography, and history. Research notes and photocopies of materials on methods for historical linguistics and several other linguistic topics are also contained in the Papers. Drafts of manuscripts and conference handouts created during Dr. Oswalt's career, including incomplete drafts of his Kashaya dictionary, are also included in the collection.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Elsie Allen, Elizabeth Dollar, Edna Guerrero, Achora Hanyava, Annie Lake, Milton "Bun" Lucas, Oscar McDaniel, Sharky Moore, Essie Parrish, Bernice Scott Torrez, Clara Williams, and Robert L. Oswalt. Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages, Oswalt, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2C24TDG.
Associated materials:Audio recordings associated with the Papers are in the Berkeley Language Center, Berkeley, California (LA 98).
Historical information:These items represent recordings of Wappo, spoken by Laura Somersal and elicited by Sandra Thompson and Charles Li of the University of California Santa Barbara. The recordings were created beginning in 1975 at Laura Somersal's home, and Thompson and Li continued to work with Laura until her death in 1990.
Scope and content:2 DVDs containing 15 audio recordings of elicitation sessions
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Laura Somersal, Charles Li, and Sandra Thompson. Wappo sound recordings, LA 253, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2BV7DRR.
Associated materials:"A Reference Grammar of Wappo" by Sandra A. Thompson, Joseph Sung-Yul Park, and Charles N. Li (University of California Press, 2006) is based on the recordings contained in this Collection.
Availability: Paper materials for Item number Oswalt.003.055 are not digitized. Please email us at scoil-ling@berkeley.edu to schedule a visit, or to see if we can scan them for you.
Extent:1 folder
Description:Photocopy of Li and Thompson's handout with hand annotations.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Relativization strategies in Wappo, Oswalt.003.055, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/2223.
Availability: Paper materials for Item number Li.001 are not digitized. Please email us at scoil-ling@berkeley.edu to schedule a visit, or to see if we can scan them for you.
Extent:1 folder
Description:Mimeographed copy of earlier typed draft, accompanied by photocopy of final typed draft. Also includes letter from Li to Jesse Sawyer.
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Subject and word order in Wappo, Li.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/1404.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: [Elicitation of words and phrases], LA 253.009, in "Wappo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25274.
Digital assets in this Item (available by request): SBA030 Wappo 9.wav (532283436 bytes)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: [Elicitation of words and phrases], LA 253.011, in "Wappo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25276.
Digital assets in this Item (available by request): SBA032 Wappo 11.wav (550649900 bytes)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: [Elicitation of words and phrases], LA 253.005, in "Wappo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25265.
Digital assets in this Item (available by request): SBA026 Wappo 5.wav (547489706 bytes)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: [Elicitation of words and phrases], LA 253.012, in "Wappo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25277.
Digital assets in this Item (available by request): SBA033 Wappo 12.wav (553680940 bytes)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: [Elicitation of words and phrases], LA 253.004, in "Wappo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25264.
Digital assets in this Item (available by request): SBA025 Wappo 4.wav (288858156 bytes)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: [Elicitation of words and phrases], LA 253.006, in "Wappo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25271.
Digital assets in this Item (available by request): SBA027 Wappo 6.wav (550354988 bytes)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: [Elicitation of words and phrases], LA 253.010, in "Wappo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25275.
Digital assets in this Item (available by request): SBA031 Wappo 10.wav (527401004 bytes)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: [Elicitation of words and phrases], LA 253.013, in "Wappo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25278.
Digital assets in this Item (available by request): SBA034 Wappo 13.wav (550494252 bytes)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: [Elicitation of words and phrases], LA 253.002, in "Wappo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25262.
Digital assets in this Item (available by request): SBA023 Wappo 2.wav (548175916 bytes)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: [Elicitation of words and phrases], LA 253.003, in "Wappo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25263.
Digital assets in this Item (available by request): SBA024 Wappo 3.wav (407298092 bytes)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: [Elicitation of words and phrases], LA 253.001, in "Wappo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/10215.
Digital assets in this Item (available by request): SBA022 Wappo 1.wav (548602668 bytes)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: [Elicitation of words and phrases], LA 253.007, in "Wappo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25272.
Digital assets in this Item (available by request): SBA028 Wappo 7.wav (530456620 bytes)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: [Elicitation of words and phrases], LA 253.008, in "Wappo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25273.
Digital assets in this Item (available by request): SBA029 Wappo 8.wav (550363180 bytes)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: [Elicitation of words and phrases], LA 253.014, in "Wappo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25279.
Digital assets in this Item (available by request): SBA035 Wappo 14.wav (550592556 bytes)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: [Elicitation of words and phrases], LA 253.015, in "Wappo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25280.
Digital assets in this Item (available by request): SBA036 Wappo 15.wav (540740266 bytes)
Availability: Paper materials for Item number Sawyer.108 are not digitized. Please email us at scoil-ling@berkeley.edu to schedule a visit, or to see if we can scan them for you.
Extent:1 folder
Description:Contains 43 file slips with vocabulary, one loose sheet of handwritten notes, one typed sheet titled "The Relationships between Wappo and Yuki," a three-page handout from William Elmendorf with notes called "Yukian Pronouns," a program for the Conference on Hokan Languages, 1970 April 23-25 at University of California, San Diego, with extensive notes, two photocopied sheets with vocabulary dated 06-29-78, and a three-page handout by Charles N. Li and Sandra A. Thompson titled "The Causative in Wappo: A Special Case of Doubling."
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: [Miscellaneous notes and papers on Wappo and Yuki], Sawyer.108, in "Jesse O. Sawyer Papers on Yukian Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14705.
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