| | 1 | Author: | Reland, Adriaan, 1676-1718 | | | | | Dutch Orientalist. Widely known for his in-depth studies of Islam, the Dutch linguist and Orientalist Reland spent most of his career as Professor of Oriental languages at the University of Utrech. A master of many classical and living languages, he delved into issues in historical linguistics in his works, touching on languages from Indonesia and East Asia to North and South America | |
| | | Title: | Vocabularia variarum linguarum Americanarum
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | Native American languages | | | | Dates: | 1822 | | | | Extent: | 1 volume (35 leaves) | | | | Abstract: | The difficulty of obtaining Adriaan Reland's linguistic works in Philadelphia apparently lead Peter Stephen Du Ponceau to copy out sections of the Dissertationum, probably in 1822. Drawn in turn from a number of earlier sources, these sections include "Brasilian" (i.e. Mapuche), "Chilean," "Peruvian" (Quechua), "Guatimalan" (Pocomam), "Caribbean" (Arawak or Carib), "Mexican" (Nahuatl), "Virginian" (Massachusett), Algonquian, and Huron | | | | Source: | Vocabularia variarum linguarum Americanarum (498 R27) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | |
| 2 | Author: | none | | | | | | |
| | | Title: | Vocabularies and Miscellaneous Papers Related to Indian Languages
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | Native American languages | | | | Dates: | Circa 1784-1828 | | | | Extent: | 3 volumes | | | | Abstract: | Miscellaneous Manuscripts on North and Central American Indian Languages. Vocabulary lists and correspondence concerning Cherokee, Chippewa, Choctaw, Creek, Delaware, Lenni Lenape, Miami, Mohican, Osage, Shawano, and other Indian languages. Manuscripts and correspondence by James Barbour, Benjamin Smith Barton, Daniel Butrick, Peter S. Du Ponceau, Martin Duralde, George Gambold, George Gurley, Benjamin Hawkins, John Heckewelder, George Izard, Thomas Jefferson, Richard Kells, William V. Murray, Constantine Rafinesque, Daniel Smith, William Thornton, David Zeisberger, and others | | | | Source: | American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee American Indian Vocabulary Collection (497 V85) | | | | |
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| 3 | Author: | Pitkin, Harvey, 1928- | | | | | Linguist. Assistant professor Department of Linguistics Berkeley, 1960-1963, associate professor, 1964-1979, full professor, 1980; Columbia University | |
| | | Title: | Harvey Pitkin Papers
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | Native American languages | | | | Dates: | 1884-1968 | | | | Extent: | 15.5 linear feet | | | | Abstract: | The Harvey Pitkin Papers contain materials regarding Pitkin's research on various languages. Series I: Patwin and Wintu Materials includes notes and documents on the Wintu, Patwin (Southern Wintu), and Nomlaki (Central Wintu) languages. Series I is further subdivided into four series based on material, Series I-A: Research notes, Series I-B: Vocabularies and slip files, Series I-C: Text and manuscripts, and Series I-D: Phonetic tracings. Series II: Yuki Materials contains materials gathered by Alfred L. Kroeber. This series is subdivided into five subseries, Series II-A: Research notes, Series II-B: Vocabularies and slip files, Series II-C: Texts and manuscripts, Series II-D: Phonetic tracings, and Series II-E: Correspondence. Series III: Miscellaneous Materials includes materials on various languages. For example, the Yahi, Hamawi, Achumawi, Cherokee, Mohave, Kwakiutl, etc. This series is also divided into five subseries Series III-A: Research notes, Series III-B: Vocabularies and slip files, Series III-C: Texts and manuscripts, Series III-D: Phonetic tracings, and Series III-E: Correspondence | | | | Source: | Harvey Pitkin Papers (Ms. Coll. 78) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 4 | Author: | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | | | | | Anthropologist, linguist. Research assistant, anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1907-1908; instructor, anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 1908-1910; chief of division, anthropology, Canadian National Museum, 1910-1925; associate professor, anthropology, University of Chicago, 1925-1927, professor, anthopology and general linguistics, 1927-1931; Sterling professor, anthropology and linguistics, Yale University, 1931-1939 | |
| | | Title: | Edward Sapir Manuscripts
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | Native American languages | | | | Dates: | Circa 1905-1939 | | | | Extent: | 17 linear feet | | | | Abstract: | Dictionaries, texts, word lists, field notes, miscellaneous materials on American Indian languages and ethnography. Primarily linguistics, but some folklore and general ethnography. Includes material on Paiute, Wasco, Wishram, Chinook, Hopi, Algonquin, Nootka, Okanagon, Otomi, Athapaskan, Uto-Aztecan, Wakashan, Yana, Navaho, and other languages | | | | Source: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages (497.3 B63c) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | |
| 5 | Author: | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | | | | | Lawyer, philologist. Du Ponceau was an emigre to the American colonies in 1777, and served as an aide to Baron von Steuben in the War for Independence. In 1781 he was appointed secretary to Robert Livingston, Secretary for Foreign Affairs. After the declaration of peace, Du Ponceau took up law, specializing in matters of international law and trade. A life-long student of languages, Du Ponceau took up the systematic study of American Indian languages while in Philadelphia. Much of his linguistic work was done under the auspices of the American Philosophical Society. He served the Society as councilor, from 1801-1816; vice-president, 1816-1827; and president, 1828-1844. See Murphy D. Smith, "Peter Stephen Du Ponceau and his Study of Languages," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 127 (1983): 143-179. | |
| | | Title: | Indian Vocabularies
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | Native American languages | | | | Dates: | 1820-1844 | | | | Extent: | 253 leaves | | | | Abstract: | Comparative American Indian vocabularies | | | | Source: | Indian Vocabularies (497 In2) | | | | |
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| 6 | Author: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages | | | | | The Committee was organized in 1927 under the direction of Franz Boas and with initial funds from the Carnegie Foundation of New York. Its objective was to collect materials for the study of Indian languages and dialects | |
| | | Title: | Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | Native American languages | | | | Dates: | 1882-1958 | | | | Extent: | 80 linear feet | | | | Abstract: | Manuscript material on American Indian linguistics and ethnography collected by the Committee on American Languages of the American Council of Learned Societies under the direction of Franz Boas. The Committee was organized in 1927 under the direction of Franz Boas and with initial funds from the Carnegie Foundation of New York. Its objective was to collect materials for the study of Indian languages and dialects, but manuscript sources in folklore and ethnography also were added. Most of the documents were collected between 1927 and 1937, but additions have been made up to the present. They include field notes, dictionaries, grammars, lexical files, and texts. An index (up to 1945) can be found in the "Supplement" to Language, Journal of the Linguistic Society of America, Vol. 21, No.3 (July-September, 1945), by C. F. Voegelin and Z. S. Harris. Individual entries, indexed by subject and author, are listed in John E. Freeman and Murphy D. Smith, A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian in the Library of the American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia: APS, 1980), and Daythal Kendall, A Supplement to A Guide... (Philadelphia: APS, 1982). The collection includes manuscripts of M.I. Andrade, Franz Boas, Ella Deloria, Jaime de Angulo, Roland Dixon, Reo Fortune, Leo Frachtenberg, Pliny Goddard, Herman Haeberlin, George Herzog, George Hunt, Robert Lowie, Paul Radin, Gladys Reichard, Edward Sapir, Morris Swadesh, John Swanton, C. F. Voegelin, and others. | | | | Source: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages (497.3 B63c) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | |
| 7 | Author: | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | | | | | U.S. President, statesman, savant. Jefferson held several positions in the government of both Virginia and the United States. He was U. S. Secretary of State, under Washington, from 1790 to 1793; vice-president from 1796-1801; president, 1801-1809. As President of the American Philosophical Society, from 1797 to 1815, Jefferson actively promoted geographical, paleontological, botanical, and linguistic studies in the United States. | |
| | | Title: | Comparative Vocabularies of Several Indian Languages
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | Native American languages | | | | Dates: | 1802-1808 | | | | Extent: | 1 volume (72 leaves) | | | | Abstract: | Algonquin, Atacopa, Cayuga, Cherokee, Chetimacha, Chickasaw, Chippewa, etc. | | | | Source: | Comparative Vocabularies of Several Indian Languages (497 J35) | | | | |
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| 8 | Author: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | | | | | Physician, naturalist. Medical practice, Philadelphia, 1789-1815; professor of natural history and botany, College of Philadelphia, 1790-95, of materia medica, 1895-1813; chair of theory and practice of medicine, 1813-15; physician to Pennsylvania Hospital, 1798-1815; founder and editor, Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, 1805-08. Barton's interests and research included studies in botany, materia medica, and American ethnography. | |
| | | Title: | A Comparative Vocabulary of Indian Languages, 1798-1821
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | Native American languages | | | | Dates: | 1798-1821 | | | | Extent: | 221 leaves | | | | Abstract: | This volume contains extracts of Barton's "New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America" (Philadelphia, 1797), with additions by Peter S. Du Ponceau, including a review of Barton's book in "Gottingische Anzeigen von gelehrten Sachen," June 17, 1799. | | | | Source: | A Comparative Vocabulary of Indian Languages (497 B28) | | | | |
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