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

description: 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.