Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages

• Main Authors: Allen, Elsie, Anderson, Arthur, Anderson, Lowe, Andrews Macy, Lucy, Antone, David, Bartlett Alcantra, Salome, Burke, Annie, Campbell, Edna, Chapelle, Violet Parrish, Dollar, Elizabeth, Doorman, Charlie, Frank, Bill, Fulwider, Olive, Gomez, Suzie, Gonzales, Gladys James, Guerrero, Edna, Halpern, Abraham M., Hanyava, Achora, Holder, Ralph, Jackson, Lula, James, Allen, James, Herman, James, Mary, Johnson, Lula, Kelsey, John, Lake, Annie, Logan, Cecilia, Logan, Frank, Lucas, Milton "Bun", Luff, Effie Mabel, Luff, Frank, Marando, Kate, Marrufo, Julia Pinola, McDaniel, Oscar, Moore, George, Moore, Ralph, Moore, Sharky, Nelson-Rodrigues, Guillermina, Old Toby, Parrish Lawson, Vana, Parrish, Essie, Parrish, Sidney, Scarioni, F., Scott Torrez, Bernice, Scott, Greene, Seller, Kathryn, Somersal, Laura, Tillotsen, Eben, Wilder, Vivian, Williams, Clara, Barrett, S.A., Buckley, Eugene, Foster, George M., Grekoff, George, Lamb, Sydney M., McLendon, Sally, Oswalt, Robert L., Uldall, Hans Jørgen, Aginsky, Bernard W., Alford, Dan, Almstedt, Ruth, Caisse, Michelle, Chafe, Wallace L., Clifford, James, Comstock, Janice, Davis, Philip W., Dickler Kaplan, Victoria, DuBois, Cora, Durham, Homer, Farnum, Linda J., Farris, Glenn J., Gamon, David, Gibson, James R., Goodrich, Jennie, Hall, Kira, Hillard, Gretchen S., Hinton, Leanne, Istomin, A. A., Jack, Frances, Kari, James M., Kennedy, Mary Jean, Kostromitonov, P., Larsen, Tom, Li, Charles, Lightfoot, Kent G., Marr, John P., McCarthy, Helen, Milliken, Randall, Mithun, Marianne, Mixco, Mauricio J., Morgan, Lawrence, Moshinsky, Julius, Nichols, Johanna, Nieze, June, O'Connor, Mary Catherine, Parrish, Otis, Petrov, Viktor, Saunders, Ross, Sawyer, Jesse O., Schiff, Ann M., Shepherd, Alice, Silver, Shirley, Steele, Susan, Swift, Mary, Tanous, Louise, Thompson, Sandra, Turner, Katherine, Vihman, Eero, Wake, Thomas A., Wall, Carolyn F., Webb, Nancy, Whistler, Kenneth W., Willits, Skip, Yasumoto, Biten, Yokomori, T., Anderson, Martha, Kalifornsky, Peter, Lucas, Tammy, Martinez, Nelda Grace, Oswalt Family
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley 2015
• Subjects: Milton; Mabel; Guillermina; Annie Lake; aleut
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7297/x2c24tdg; http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/5

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, Laura Fish Somersall, 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.