William Bright
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 93413 |
|---|---|
| NOME | William Bright |
| PRENOMES | William |
| SOBRENOME | Bright |
| ASSINATURA | BRIGHT W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 160 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 130 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 157 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1952 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Sociolinguistics
The Orations of St Athanasius Against the Arians
In the fourth century, a group of Christians who followed the teachings of Arius, an Alexandrian presbyter, claimed that Christ was not truly divine but a created being. According to Arius, God alone is unique and self-existent: the Son is not. Although Arianism was condemned as heretical at the Council of Nicaea in 325, it continued to exert significant influence. Patriarch of Alexandria, St Athanasius (c.296–373) was among the most vigorous def…
Contextualizing a grammar
The grammar of a language is not only un système ou tout se tient ; it also lies within a nexus involving time, space, and social relationships. On the dimension of time, descriptive and historical linguistics are not totally separate: native speakers’ knowledge of their language may include recognition of archaic forms and foreign borrowings. As for space, native speakers’ knowledge also includes awareness of geographical dialect variation. On t…
Murray B. Emeneau
Murray B. Emeneau William Bright Murray Barnson Emeneau died peacefully at the age of 101 at his home in Berkeley, California. Perhaps the last surviving student of Edward Sapir, Emeneau was the principal founder of the Linguistics Department at his university and of the Survey of California Indian Languages. He was known in India and internationally as a Sanskritist, as the world’s most distinguished scholar of the Dravidian language family of I…
Zarina Estrada Fernández et al., Diccionario yaqui-español y textos
Zarina Estrada Fernández et al., Diccionario yaqui-español y textos: Obra de preservación lingüística . Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico: Universidad de Sonora; Mexico City: Plaza y Valdés Editores, 2004. Pp. 405. The Yaqui or Yoeme live historically in the state of Sonora in northwestern Mexico, and in recent times also in Arizona. They are well known ethnographically and ethnohistorically through the works of Edward Spicer (e.g., 1980, 1984), and eth…
A Glossary of Native American Toponyms and Ethnonyms from the Lewis and Clark Journals
The published journals of the Lewis & Clark expedition, dating from the period 1804-1806, contain many Native American names of places and tribes, some of which entered English usage for the first time through these records. In later days, Native American names were also applied to some places to which Lewis & Clark had given English names. This article presents a glossary of all such terms, giving etymologies from the Native languages. For topon…
American Indian placenames in the United States
Native American Placenames in the Louisiana Purchase
Research Article| November 01 2003 Native American Placenames in the Louisiana Purchase WILLIAM BRIGHT WILLIAM BRIGHT Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2003) 78 (4): 353–362. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-78-4-353 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation WILLIAM BRIGHT; Native American Placenames in the Louisiana Purchase. American Speech 1 Novem…
On the Study of Names
In 1988, I retired from 30 years of teaching linguistics at UCLA, with a research specialty in the languages of Native North America and Mesoamerica. Since then, I've increasingly returned to an earlier interest in place name etymology, dating from my graduate student days at Berkeley. In 1993, I published a volume called Colorado Place Names; there I attempted, in particular, to do justice to names of Spanish and American Indian origin. In 1998,…
The Sociolinguistics of the “S–Word”
Placenames containing the word “squaw” are numerous throughout the United States, but have recently become controversial. American Indian groups and individuals have presented three kinds of argument against the use of the term. The first argument is that it is derived from an Mohawk word for the female genitalia. Linguistic data show, however, that it is actually a New England Massachusett word for ‘woman'. A second argument presented is that “s…
Inyo Redux
The name of the Inyo Mountains and of Inyo County in California was reported in 1860 to mean ‘dwelling place of a great spirit’ in a local Indian language, but this etymology was later disputed. It is now confirmed that the name is derived from Panamint iuml;niuml;-yun ‘ ‘it's dangerous’
Note
Change of editorship. The present volume of Language in Society (vol. 29, 2000) marks a transition in the editorship of the journal; the newly appointed editor is Jane H. Hill.From the beginning of 2000, then, all manuscripts submitted for publication, all books offered for review, and all new editorial correspondence should be sent to Prof. Jane H. Hill, Editor, Language in Society, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
R. E. Asher & T. C. Kumari, Malayalam . (Descriptive grammars.) London & New York
Malayalam, a member of the Dravidian family, is the official language of Kerala state in southwest India. Asher is an experienced Dravidianist of Edinburgh University, as well as editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of language and linguistics (10 vols., Oxford: Pergamon, 1994); his co-author is a native speaker of Malayalam, and a former professor at a college in Kerala
A Matter of Typology
The typology of writing systems includes such well known categories as the alphabet (e.g. that of English), the syllabary (e.g. Japanese kana), and the logosyllabary (such as Chinese characters). An additional type, exemplified by writing systems of India and Ethiopia, shows features of both the alphabet and the syllabary; it has sometimes been called an alphasyllabary, sometimes an abugida (borrowing an Ethiopic term). These terms can be disting…
Itzaj Maya-Spanish-English Dictionary/Diccionario Maya Itzaj-Espanol-Ingles
Panorama de los estudios de las lenguas indigenas de Mexico
Josiane Boutet , Langage et société . (Mémo
In this short monograph, addressed to a general audience of novices in the study of language and society, Boutet takes up the challenge of presenting this scientific field in a concise yet informative manner. She successfully meets the challenge, enhancing her lively discussion of basic concepts with numerous examples drawn from past or current research and from her own observational data. Technical jargon has been avoided as much as possible, an…
A Summer in Japan
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing systems
The World's Writing Systems
Namenforschung
The World's Writing Systems
The World's Writing Systems meets the need for a definitive volume on the major historical and modern writing systems of the world. Comprising more than eighty articles contributed by expert scholars in the field, the work is organized in twelve units, each dealing with a particular group of writing systems defined historically, geographically, or conceptually. Each unit begins with an introductory article providing the social and cultural contex…
Dravidian Studies
It contains 27 articles on Dravidian subjects. Of these 27, 23 deal with linguistic topics, several ranging through the Dravidian family as a whole; others concentrate on specific languages, such as Toda, Kota Kodagu, Brahui, but all attempt to fit specific language data into the comparative study the languages of the family
Siberian Yupik Eskimo
One Language, Two Scripts
Semantic Structures in Northwestern California and the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis1
Linguistics and Anthropology
From Latin American Publications
With One Lip, with Two Lips
Texts in Classical Nahuatl of the year 1524, in the genre of formal oratory, reveal extensive use of lines showing parallel morphosyntactic and semantic structure; this parallelism expresses likeness rather than contrast, and is organized in binary sequences which display successive embedding. Analysis and translation of an extended passage point to (a) the applicability of structural analysis to ‘expressive’ as well as ‘referential’ texts; and (…
Topics in Northern Pomo Grammar
A Coyote Reader
Wily, raunchy, and heroic. A trickster, lecher, and supreme survivor. Such is the magical Coyote, that mythic Native American figure whose various roles are recounted here in a wonderful selection of poetry and stories. Anthropological linguist William Bright brings together diverse portraits of Coyote from American Indian texts and modern American writing. Because Native American myths have been recited and transmitted orally, Bright addresses t…
American Indian Linguistics and Literature
New Mexico Place Names
On Linguistic Unrelatedness
Language and Music
E very culture in the world presumably has language, and every culture also has music. These two departments of human culture have some important similarities and points of contact; perhaps the most obvious of these lies in the fact that language and music are the two most important ways in which man uses sound. Not only do every people employ vocal sound both in language and in music, but non-vocal sounds are also associated with both systems, o…
California Place Names. The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names
Absco, a Southern Pacific station, was coined in the 1920s from the name of the American Beet Sugar Company, which had a factory in Oxnard. Pochea is an Indian village site in Riverside County, said to mean 'where the rabbit went in'. Siskiyou was the Chinook word for 'bobtailed horse,' originally taken over from the Cree language. From Abadi Creek to Zzyzyx Spring, thousands of discoveries await the reader of Place Names. This is the fourth edit…
Glottochronologic Counts of Hokaltecan Material
A recently published paper by Gordon H. Fairbanks discusses a question pertinent to the glottochronologic counts of Morris Swadesh and others: On what phonological basis are words to be correlated for lexicostatistical purposes? The most desirable basis is undoubtedly that of determining cognates on the basis of phonemic correspondences. But if this is the only basis, glottochronological methods must be largely inapplicable at present to such gro…
The Sociolinguistics of the “S–Word”
Placenames containing the word “squaw” are numerous throughout the United States, but have recently become controversial. American Indian groups and individuals have presented three kinds of argument against the use of the term. The first argument is that it is derived from an Mohawk word for the female genitalia. Linguistic data show, however, that it is actually a New England Massachusett word for ‘woman'. A second argument presented is that “s…
Introduction a la langue et a la litterature azteques
Diccionario Histórico de la Lengua Española
Zarina Estrada Fernández et al., Diccionario yaqui-español y textos
Zarina Estrada Fernández et al., Diccionario yaqui-español y textos: Obra de preservación lingüística . Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico: Universidad de Sonora; Mexico City: Plaza y Valdés Editores, 2004. Pp. 405. The Yaqui or Yoeme live historically in the state of Sonora in northwestern Mexico, and in recent times also in Arizona. They are well known ethnographically and ethnohistorically through the works of Edward Spicer (e.g., 1980, 1984), and eth…
Breaking the Maya Code
Notes on Hispanisms
Dravidian Metaphony
1. Introduction. The development of South Dravidian phonology has shown, through its entire recorded and reconstructable history, extensive vocalic assimilation of the type which is known as metaphony, umlaut, or vowel mutation. Specifically, the vowels of radical (word-initial) open syllables have become lower when the following syllable contains the low vowel a. The points to be made in this paper are four. (1) This process is reflected in all …
Language, Social Stratification, and Cognitive Orientation
The History of the Cahuilla Sound System
A Note on the Southwestern Words for Cat
Social Dialect and Language History
Karok Names
LE KAROK are an American Indian tribe living along the middle course of the Klamath River in northwestern California. Along with neighboring tribes, they participate in a distinctive culture which has been studied most thoroughly among the Yurok and Hupa. In the field of names, Yurok customs have been described in detail by Waterman, who gives information on personal as well as geographical names. 1 Karok names have been noted at less length, pri…
Linguistic Innovations in Karok
Some Place Names on the Klamath River
Linguistic Innovations in Karok
A Bibliography of the Hokan-Coahuiltecan Languages
Kolami, a Dravidian Language
Glottochronologic Counts of Hokaltecan Material
A recently published paper by Gordon H. Fairbanks discusses a question pertinent to the glottochronologic counts of Morris Swadesh and others: On what phonological basis are words to be correlated for lexicostatistical purposes? The most desirable basis is undoubtedly that of determining cognates on the basis of phonemic correspondences. But if this is the only basis, glottochronological methods must be largely inapplicable at present to such gro…
Proto-Mixtecan
Karok Names
LE KAROK are an American Indian tribe living along the middle course of the Klamath River in northwestern California. Along with neighboring tribes, they participate in a distinctive culture which has been studied most thoroughly among the Yurok and Hupa. In the field of names, Yurok customs have been described in detail by Waterman, who gives information on personal as well as geographical names. 1 Karok names have been noted at less length, pri…
The Yurok Language
The Karok Language
Les Khyang des collines de Chittagong (Pakistan oriental)
An Outline of Colloquial Kannada
A Note on the Southwestern Words for Cat
Accent' in Classical Aztec
Turner Jubilee. Sukumar Sen
An Outline of Colloquial Kannada
Social Dialect and Language History
Crow Texts . Robert H. Lowie Crow Word Lists
From European Publications
Diccionario Histórico de la Lengua Española
From Latin American Publications
From Anglo American Publications
Linguistics
Will C. Barnes' Arizona Place Names
California Place Names. The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names
Absco, a Southern Pacific station, was coined in the 1920s from the name of the American Beet Sugar Company, which had a factory in Oxnard. Pochea is an Indian village site in Riverside County, said to mean 'where the rabbit went in'. Siskiyou was the Chinook word for 'bobtailed horse,' originally taken over from the Cree language. From Abadi Creek to Zzyzyx Spring, thousands of discoveries await the reader of Place Names. This is the fourth edit…
Catalogo de las lenguas de America del Sur
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