Bibliography of Klamath-Modoc linguistics

This bibliography does not list all works on comparative Penutian which refer to Klamath. These can be found in the Penutian bibliography at this site.

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Angulo, Jaime de, and L.S. Freeland. 1931. The Lutuami language
     (Klamath-Modoc).  J. de la Société des
     Américanistes, n.s. 23:1-45.
Aoki, Haruo.  1963.  On Sahaptian-Klamath linguistic
     affiliations.  International Journal of American
     Linguistics 29:107-112.
Bancroft, Hubert Howe. 1875. Californian languages. In The
     native races of the Pacific States of North America, H.
     H. Bancroft, vol. 3. Myths and Languages, 635-659. The Works
     of Hubert Howe Bancroft, vol. 3. New York: D. Appleton and
     Co.
Barker, M.A.R. 1963a. Klamath dictionary.  University of
     California Publications in Linguistics 31.
_____. 1963b. Klamath texts.  University of California
     Publications in Linguistics 30.
_____. 1964. Klamath grammar. University of California
     Publications in Linguistics 32.
Blevins, Juliette. 1993. Klamath laryngeal phonology. 
     International Journal of American Linguistics 59:237-
     279. 
Clements, George N., and S. J. Keyser. 1983. CV phonology:  A
     generative theory of the syllable.  Cambridge: MIT
     Press.
Curtin, Jeremiah. 1912. Myths of the Modocs: Indian legends of
     the Northwest.  Boston: Little, Brown, 1912. (Repr.
     1971: New York: Benjamin Blom).
Darden, Bill. 1985. CV Phonology and Klamath. International
     Journal of American Linguistics 51:384-387.
DeLancey, Scott. 1987a.  Klamath and Wintu pronouns. 
     International Journal of American Linguistics
     53.461-4.
_____. 1987b.  Morphological parallels between Klamath and Wintu.
     J. Redden, ed., Proc. of the 1987 Hokan-Penutian
     Conference, pp. 50-60. Carbondale, IL: Dept. of
     Linguistics, Southern Illinois University.
_____. 1988.  Klamath stem structure in genetic and areal
     perspective. S. DeLancey, ed., Papers from the 1988
     Hokan-Penutian Workshop.  Eugene, OR: Dept. of
     Linguistics, University of Oregon, pp. 31-9.
_____. 1990.  Diachronic notes on the Klamath verb suffixes. in
     S. DeLancey, ed., Papers from the 1989 Hokan-Penutian
     Workshop, pp. 18-27.  Eugene, OR: Dept. of Linguistics,
     University of Oregon.
_____. 1990ms.  What is grammatical evidence, and how do we
     interpret it?  Paper delivered at the Language and
     Prehistory in the Americas Conference, University of
     Colorado, March 22-25, 1990.
_____. 1991ms.  The development of the classificatory stem
     category in Klamath.  Paper delivered at the Hokan-Penutian
     Workshop, Santa Cruz, July 1, 1991.
_____. 1991. Chronological strata of suffix classes in the
     Klamath verb.  International Journal of American
     Linguistics 57:426-445.
_____. 1992.  Klamath and Sahaptian numerals.  International
     Journal of American Linguistics 58:235-39.
_____. 1996.  Penutian in the bipartite stem belt:  Disentangling
     areal and genetic correspondences.  Proceedings of the
     Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics
     Society:  Special Session on historical topics in Native
     American Languages.  
_____. to appear. Lexical prefixes and the bipartite stem
     construction in Klamath. International Journal of
     American Linguistics.
_____, C. Genetti and N. Rude. 1988.  Klamath-Sahaptian-Tsimshian
     cognate sets.  William Shipley, ed., In honor of Mary
     Haas:  From the Haas Festival Conference on Native American
     Linguistics, pp. 195-224.  Berlin:  Mouton de Gruyter.
Farrand, Livingston. 1907. Lutuamian family. In Handbook of
     American Indians north of Mexico, ed. F. W. Hodge, vol.
     1, 778-779. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin, 30.
     Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office.
Feinstein, Mark, and Robert Vago. 1981. Non-evidence for the
     segmental cycle in Klamath.  D. L. Goyvaerts, ed.,
     Phonology in the 1980's, pp. 119-145.
Gatschet, Albert S. 1878. Sketch of the Klamath language. 
     American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal, vol.
     1:81-84.
_____. 1878. Mythologic text in the Klamath language of Southern
     Oregon with translation and comments. American
     Antiquarian and Oriental Journal, vol. 1:161-166.
_____. 1879. Adjectives of color in Indian languages. American
     Naturalist, vol. 13:475-485.
_____. 1879. Farbenbennungen in Nordamerikanischen Sprachen. 
     Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, vol. 11.
_____. 1879. Volk und Sprache der Maklaks. Globus, vol.
     35:167-171, 187-189.
_____. 1880. The numeral adjective in the Klamath language of
     Southern Oregon. American Antiquarian and Oriental
     Journal, vol. 2, pp. 210-217.
_____. 1881. Three short texts with commentaries.  Bureau of
     American Ethnology, First Annual Report, pp. 583-587.
_____. 1890. The Klamath Indians of Southwestern Oregon.
     Contributions to North American Ethnology, vol. 2, pt. 2.
     Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office.
_____. 1891. Die Windhose: Ein Mythus der Modoc-Indianer. Am.
     Urquell, vol. 2:1-3.
_____. 1891. Oregonian folk-lore. Journal of American
     Folk-Lore, vol. 4:139-143.
_____. 1894. Songs of the Modoc Indians. American
     Anthropologist, vol. 7:26-31.
Hale, Horatio. 1892. The Klamath Nation. Science, vol.
     19:6-7, 20-21, 29-31.
Kaye, Jonathan.  1976. Klamath and strict cyclicity. 
     Linguistic Inquiry 6:599-602.
Kean, Mary-Louise. 1973. Non-global rules in Klamath phonology. 
     Quarterly Progress Report, MIT Res. Lab. in Electronics
     108:288-310.
_____. 1973. Re: An argument against the principle of
     simultaneous application of phonological rules. 
     Linguistic Inquiry 4:541-545.
_____. 1974. The strict cycle in phonology.  Linguistic
     Inquiry 5:179-203.
Kisseberth, Charles. 1972. An argument against the principle of
     simultaneous application of phonological rules. 
     Linguistic Inquiry 3:393-306.
_____. 1972. Cyclical rules in Klamath phonology.  Linguistic
     Inquiry 3:3-33.
_____. 1973. On the alternation of vowel length in Klamath:  A
     global rule.  M. Kenstowicz and C. Kisseberth, eds.,
     Issues in phonological theory, pp.  The Hague:
     Mouton.
Lapointe, Steven, and Mark Feinstein.  1982. Vowel deletion and
     epenthesis in the assignment of syllable structure.  H. van
     der Hulst and N. Smith, eds., The structure of
     phonological representations, part II, pp. 69-120.
Lévy-Bruhl, L. 1910.  Les fonctions mentales dans les
     societes inferieures.  Paris.
Lightner, Theodore. 1976. On deglottalization in Klamath.   
     International Journal of American Linguistics 42:14-
     16.
Merriam, C. Hart. 1976. Ethnogeographic and ethnosynonymic
     data from Northern California tribes, ed. R. F. Heizer.
     Contributions to Native California Ethnology from the C.
     Hart Merriam Collection, no. 1. Berkeley: University of
     California Archaeological Research Facility.
Meyer, Karen Sundberg. 1992. Word order in Klamath.  Doris Payne,
     ed., Pragmatics of word order flexibility, pp. 167-
     191.  Amsterdam:  Benjamins.
Rigsby, Bruce. 1965. Linguistic relations in the Southern
     Plateau.  Ph.D. dissertation, University of Oregon.
Royen, P. Gerlach. 1929.  Die nominalen Klassifikations-
     Systeme in den Sprachen der Erde:  historisch-kritische
     Studie, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des
     Indogermanischen.  Vienna.
Rude, Noel. 1987. Some Klamath-Sahaptian grammatical
     correspondences.  Kansas Working Papers in
     Linguistics 12:67-83.
_____. 1988. Semantic and pragmatic objects in Klamath.  William
     Shipley, ed., In honor of Mary Haas:  From the Haas
     Festival Conference on Native American Linguistics, pp.
     651-673.  Berlin:  Mouton de Gruyter.
_____. 1991. Verbs to promotional suffixes in Sahaptian and
     Klamath.  Elizabeth Traugott and Bernd Heine, eds.,
     Approaches to grammaticalization, vol. II, pp. 185-
     199. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Shipley, William.  1966.  The Relation of Klamath to California
     Penutian. Language 42:489-498.
Stern, Theodore. 1953. The Trickster in Klamath mythology.
     Western Folklore, vol. 12:158-174.
_____. 1956. Some sources of variability in Klamath mythology.
     Journal of American Folk-Lore, vol. 69 (1956): 1-12,
     135-146, 377-386.
Thomas, Linda. 1974. Klamath vowel alternations and the segmental
     cycle.  Ph.D. dissertation, University of Massachusetts.
Underriner, Janne.  1996.  Nonconfigurationality in Klamath. 
     M.A. thesis, Department of Linguistics, University of
     Oregon.
Voegelin, C. F.  1946.  Notes on Klamath-Modoc and Achumawi
     Dialects.  International Journal of American
     Linguistics 12:96-101.
White, Robin. 1972. Klamath phonology.  Ph.D.
     dissertation, University of Washington.  pub. as Studies in
     Linguistics and Language Learning, no. 12.  Seattle:
     Department of Linguistics, University of Washington.


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