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also includes Sawyer's notes and linguistic data from other languages of California taken from various published and unpublished sources.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
Preferred 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:Shirley Silver (1926-) is Professor Emerita at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California. She received a bachelor's degree (1949) and Ph.D. (1966) from the University of California, Berkeley. Her doctoral thesis was a description of the Shasta language based on fieldwork condicuted in 1957-1961. Over the course of her career she published widely on a variety of topics related to the native languages of California.
Scope and content:The Papers document Shirley Silver's research on the indigenous languages of California. This includes a microfilm copy of her Shasta field notes collected in the summers of 1957-1961. Sargent Sambo was her main Shasta language consultant, and she recorded additional material with Clara Wicks (Shasta) and Lily Montgomery (Yana). The collection also includes copies of wordlists for Shasta and Southern Pomo collected by Silver, a pre-publication draft article on Hokan botanical vocabulary, notes on Yuki grammar, and a set of slides featuring the Kashaya alphabet.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Sargent Sambo and Shirley Silver. Shirley Silver Papers on California Indian Languages, Silver, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2DV1GTT.
Associated materials:Audio recordings associated with the Papers are in the Berkeley Language Center, Berkeley, California (LA 48, LA 124).
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; ethnographic data; additional ethnographic or ethnohistorical texts; reminiscences (English); untitled texts. Some in English; English glosses for some or all.; Digitization supported by NEH Preservation/Access Grant
Repository: Berkeley Language Center
Preferred citation: Minnie Fulwider, Shirley Silver, and Roy Siniard. The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings, LA 35, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10129.
Preferred citation: Adjectives (frequency or degree); metals; verbs, LA 35.030, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16909.
Preferred citation: Adjectives; nouns related to food and insects, LA 35.020, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16899.
Preferred citation: Adverbs (a lot of, a bunch of); formation (lined up, in-law, in circle), LA 35.055, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16934.
Preferred citation: Adverbs (locations); phrases (to be looking for), LA 35.048, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16927.
Preferred citation: Adverbs (time), LA 35.049, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16928.
Preferred citation: Age, LA 35.107, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16986.
Preferred citation: Animals; traditional objects and adjectives, LA 35.006, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16885.
Preferred citation: Antitheses and other, LA 35.091, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16970.
Preferred citation: Antitheses; frequency (more than once), LA 35.082, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16961.
Preferred citation: Birthday; conjugations; adverbs related to time, LA 35.029, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16908.
Preferred citation: Body parts and numbers, LA 35.007, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16886.
Preferred citation: Comparative (don't); adverbs (time), LA 35.061, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16940.
Preferred citation: Conjugation; pronounciation; noun (deer), LA 35.098, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16977.
Preferred citation: Conjugations, LA 35.019, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16898.
Preferred citation: Conjugations and tense, LA 35.099, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16978.
Preferred citation: Conjugations using "make bread" and miscellaneous words, LA 35.142, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17021.
Preferred citation: Conjugations; prepositions, LA 35.024, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16903.
Preferred citation: Description of people's physical features; kinship and other nouns, LA 35.002, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16881.
Preferred citation: Ethnographic data out of Lulu Johnson's book, LA 35.161, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17040.
Preferred citation: Family names and other, LA 35.089, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16968.
Preferred citation: Food, household objects, nouns from nature, LA 35.022, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16901.
Preferred citation: Furniture and household objects, LA 35.025, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16904.
Preferred citation: Future tense, LA 35.092, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16971.
Preferred citation: Future tense and past tense, LA 35.101, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16980.
Preferred citation: Future tense; nationality; clothing and food, LA 35.015, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16894.
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