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I. Basic published references on Penutian
Berman, Howard.
1983. Some California Penutian Morphological Elements.
IJAL 49:400-412.
Callaghan, Catherine A.
1958. California Penutian: History and Bibliography. IJAL
24:189-194.
[See also Tor Ulving, Additions to Catherine A. Callaghan's
California Penutian, IJAL 25:136,1966.]
Dixon, Roland B., & A. L. Kroeber.
1913. New Linguistic Families of California. AA
15:645-655.
1919. Linguistic Families of California. UC-PAAE
16(3):47-118.
Golla, Victor (ed.)
1984 The Sapir-Kroeber Correspondence: Letters Between
Edward Sapir and A. L. Kroeber, 1905-1925. [Letters
concerning Penutian: # 175, 176, 186, 188, 189, 192,
193, 233, 250, 287, 288, 316.]
Hymes, Dell H.
1957. Some Penutian Elements and the Penutian Hypothesis.
Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 13:69-87.
1964a. Evidence for Penutian in Lexical Sets with Initial
*C- and *S-. IJAL 30:213-242.
1964b. 'Hail' and 'Bead': Two Penutian Etymologies. In
Bright, William, ed., Studies in Californian
Linguistics. UC Publications in Linguistics 34, pp.
94-98.
Pitkin, Harvey, & William F. Shipley.
1958. A Comparative Survey of California Penutian. IJAL
24:174-188.
Sapir, Edward.
1921a. A Bird's-Eye View of American Languages North of
Mexico. Science 54:408.
1921b. A Characteristic Penutian Form of Stem. IJAL
2:58-67.
1926. A Chinookan Phonetic Law. IJAL 4:105-110.
1929. Central and North American Languages. Encyclopaedia
Britannica, 14th ed., vol. 5, 138-141.
(1921a and 1929 are reprinted, with introduction and notes,
in: Bright, William (ed.), The Collected Works of Edward
Sapir, Volume V: American Indian Languages 1, Mouton de
Gruyter, 1989. [Also includes unpublished materials
(including some intriguing lecture notes) relating to the
6-stock classification of North American languages
(1920-21)]. 1921b and 1926 are reprinted, with
introduction and notes, in: Golla, Victor (ed.), The
Collected Works of Edward Sapir, Volume VI: American Indian
Languages 2, Mouton de Gruyter, 1991.
Shipley, William.
1966. The Relation of Klamath to California Penutian.
Language 42:489-498.
1980b. Penutian Among the Ruins: A Personal Assessment.
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley
Linguistics Society 6:437-441.
Silverstein, Michael.
1975. On Two California Penutian Roots for 'Two'. IJAL
41:369-380.
1979. Penutian: An Assessment. In Campbell and Mithun,
eds., The Languages of Native America, pp. 650-691.
Swadesh, Morris.
1956. Problems of Long-Range Comparison in Penutian.
Language 32:17-41.
II. Other published references on Penutian
Aoki, Haruo.
1962. Nez Perce and Northern Sahaptin: a Binary Comparison.
IJAL 28:172-182.
1963. On Sahaptian-Klamath Linguistic Affiliations. IJAL
29:107-112.
Broadbent, Sylvia M., & Catherine A. Callaghan.
1960. Comparative Miwok: A Preliminary Survey. IJAL
26:301-316.
Broadbent, Sylvia M., & Harvey Pitkin.
1964. A Comparison of Miwok and Wintun. In W. Bright, ed.,
Studies in Californian Linguistics. UC Publications in
Linguistics 34, 1964, pp.19-45.
Callaghan, Catherine A.
1962. Comparative Miwok-Mutsun, with Notes on Rumsen. IJAL
28:97-107.
1967. Miwok-Costanoan as a Subfamily of Penutian. IJAL
33:224-227.
1972. Proto-Miwokan Phonology. General Linguistics
12:1-31.
1977b. Proto-Miwok Kinship Terms. Proceedings of the
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
3:132-142.
1979b. The Reconstruction of Two and Related Words in
Proto-Miwok. IJAL 45:176-181. [Critique of
Silverstein 1975.]
1982. Proto Utian Derivational Noun Morphology. Occasional
Papers on Linguistics 10:71-77. Dept. of Linguistics,
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
1983. Proto Utian Derivational Verb Morphology. Occasional
Papers on Linguistics 11:23-31. Dept. of Linguistics,
Southern Illinois University,Carbondale.
1985. Proto Miwok Tense and Aspect. IJAL 51:356-358.
1986a. Proto Utian Independent Pronouns. Occasional Papers
on Linguistics 13:12-24. Dept. of Linguistics,
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
1986b. Miwok Ablaut Grades. Occasional Papers on
Linguistics 13:105-114. Dept. of Linguistics, Southern
Illinois University, Carbondale.
1986c. Miwok Cardinal Directions. Occasional Papers on
Linguistics 13:25-32. Dept. of Linguistics, Southern
Illinois University, Carbondale.
1986d. Patridominance and Proto Utian Words for 'Man',
'Woman', and 'Person'. Occasional Papers on Linguistics
13:90-100. Dept. of Linguistics, Southern Illinois
University, Carbondale.
1987b. Lake Miwok Naturalization of Borrowed Phonemes. In
Joseph, Brian D., & Arnold M. Zwicky (eds.), A
Festschrift for Ilse Lehiste (Ohio State University
Working Papers in Linguistics 35), pp. 84-93.
1988b. Proto Utian Stems. In Shipley 1988, pp. 53-75.
1990. Proto-Costanoan Numerals. IJAL 56:121-133.
DeLancey, Scott.
1987. Klamath and Wintu pronouns. IJAL 53.461-4.
1987. Morphological parallels between Klamath and Wintu.
In: J. Redden (ed.), Proceedings 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, 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.
1991. Chronological strata of suffix classes in the Klamath
verb. IJAL 57:426-445.
1992. Klamath and Sahaptian numerals. IJAL 58:235-39.
DeLancey, Scott, C. Genetti, & N. Rude.
1987. Some Sahaptian-Klamath-Tsimshianic lexical sets. In:
William Shipley (ed.), In Honor of Mary Haas: From the
Haas Festival Conference on Native American
Linguistics, pp. 195-224.
Dixon, Roland B., & A. L. Kroeber.
1903. The Native Languages of California. AA 5:1-26.
1907. Numerical Systems of the Languages of California. AA
9:663-690.
Frachtenberg, Leo J.
1918. Comparative Studies in Takelman, Kalapuyan, and
Chinookan Lexicography, a Preliminary Paper. IJAL
1:175-182.
Freeland, L. S.
1930 The Relationship of Mixe to the Penutian Family [with
notes by Edward Sapir]. IJAL 6:28-33.
Gamble, Geoffrey L.
1975. Consonant Symbolism in Yokuts. IJAL 41:306-309.
1988. Reconstructed Yokuts Pronouns. Diachronica 5:59-71.
Golla, Victor.
1964. Comparative Yokuts Phonology. In Bright, William,
ed., Studies in Californian Linguistics. UC
Publications in Linguistics 34, pp. 54-66.
1980. Some Yokuts-Maidun Comparisons. In Klar et al. 1980,
pp. 57-65.
Golla, Victor (ed.).
1990. Comparative Penutian Glosses. In Sapir 1991, pp.
299-315.
Greenberg, Joseph.
1987. Language in the Americas. Stanford. [Sections on
Penutian, esp. pp. 143-162.]
Gursky, Karl-Heinz (ed.).
1969 Roland B. Dixon: Zoque and Xinca Compared with
Penutian. Abhandlungen der Volkerkundlichen
Arbeitsgemeinschaft 20. Nortorf. [German
translation, with an Introduction, of Dixon ms 1924.]
Hymes, Dell H.
1959. Genetic Classification: Retrospect and Prospect.
Anthropological Linguistics 1(2):50-66.
1969. Review of Barker 1963b, Shipley 1963, Callaghan 1965,
Uldall & Shipley 1966. AA 71:131-138.
Jacobs, Melville.
1954. The Areal Spread of Sound Features in the Languages
North of California. Papers from the Symposium on
American Indian Linguistics (UC-Publications in
Linguistics 10), pp. 1-68.
Jacobsen, William H., Jr.
1968. On the Prehistory of Nez Perce Vowel Harmony.
Language 44:819-829.
Kroeber, A. L.
1906a. The Dialectic Divisions of the Moquelumnan Family in
Relation to the Internal Differentiation of the Other
Linguistic Families of California. AA 8:652-663.
1921. Review of Frachtenberg 1920. AA 23:221-222.
1961. Semantic Contribution of Lexicostatistics. IJAL
27:1-8. [Includes discussion of Yokuts materials.]
Levy, Richard S.
1976. Costanoan Internal Relationships. Archaeological
Research Facility, University of California, Berkeley.
Newman, Stanley.
1964. Comparison of Zuni and California Penutian. IJAL
30:1-13.
Nichols, Johanna.
1971. Diminutive Consonant Symbolism in Western North
America. Language 47: 826-848.
Nichols, Michael J. P.
1981. Old California Uto-Aztecan. In: A. Schlichter et.
al. (eds.), Reports from the Survey of California and
Other Indian Languages 1:5-41.
Okrand, Marc.
1979b. Costanoan Philological Practices: Comment and
Criticism. IJAL 45:181-187. [Critique of Silverstein
1975.]
Oswalt, Robert L.
1976. Switch-Reference in Maiduan: An Areal and Typological
Contribution. IJAL 42:297-304.
Pierce, Joe E.
1966. Genetic Comparisons and Hanis, Miluk, Alsea, Siuslaw,
and Takelma. IJAL 32:379-387.
Pitkin, Harvey.
1985b. A Wintu Etymology: 'Love'. IJAL 51:536-538.
Powell, John Wesley.
1891. Indian Linguistic Families of America North of
Mexico. BAE Annual Report 7:1-142.
Radin, Paul.
1916. On the Relationship of Huave and Mixe. AA
18:411-121.
1919. The Genetic Relationship of the North American Indian
Languages. UC-PAAE 14(5):489-502.
Rigsby, Bruce J.
1965. Continuity and Change in Sahaptian Vowel Systems.
IJAL 31:306-311.
1966. On Cayuse-Molala Relatability. IJAL 32:369-378.
1969. The Waiilatpuan Problem: More on Cayuse-Molala
Relatability. Northwest Anthropological Research Notes
3:68-146.
Rigsby, Bruce J., & Michael Silverstein.
1969. Nez Perce Vowels and Proto-Sahaptian Vowel Harmony.
Language 45:45-59.
Sadovszky, Otto J.
1976. Report on the State of the Uralo-Penutian Research.
Ural-Altaische Jahrbucher 48:191-204.
Sapir, Edward, & Morris Swadesh.
1953. Coos-Takelma-Penutian Comparisons. IJAL 19:132-137.
Schlichter, Alice.
1979. Wintu Internal Variation. IJAL 45:236-244.
1981a. Notes on the Wintu Shamanistic Jargon. In
Schlichter et al. 1981, pp. 95-130.
1986. The Origins and Deictic Nature of Wintu Evidentials.
In Chafe, Wallace, & Johanna Nichols (eds.), 1986,
Evidentiality: The Linguistic Coding of Epistemology
(Advances in Discourse Processes 20, Norwood: Ablex),
pp. 46-59.
Shafer, Robert.
1947. Penutian. IJAL 13:205-219.
1952. Notes on Penutian. IJAL 18:211-216.
1961. Tones in Wintun. Anthropological Linguistics
3(6):17-30.
Shipley, William.
1957. Some Yukian-Penutian Lexical Resemblances. IJAL
23:269-274.
1961. Maidu and Nisenan: A Binary Survey. IJAL 27:46-51.
1969. Proto-Takelman. IJAL 35:226-230.
1970. Proto-Kalapuyan. In Swanson, E. H. (ed.), Languages
and Cultures of Western North America, pp. 97-106.
Pocatello, Idaho: Idaho State University.
.1973. California. in T. Sebeok, ed., Current Trends in
Linguistics 10:1046-1078.
1978. Native Languages of California. In R.F. Heizer, ed.,
Handbook of North American Indians 8: California, pp.
80-90.
Shipley, William, & Richard Alan Smith.
1979a. Proto-Maidun Stress and Vowel Length: The
Reconstruction of One, Two, Three and Four. IJAL
45:171-176.
1979b. The Roles of Cognation and Diffusion in a Theory of
Maidun Prehistory. Journal of California and Great
Basin Anthropology-Papers in Linguistics 1:65-74.
Silverstein, Michael.
1972. Review of Callaghan 1970. General Linguistics
12:128-134.
1974. Dialectal Developments in Chinookan Tense-Aspect
Systems, an Areal-Historical Analysis. IJAL Memoirs 29
(= IJAL 40[4], part 2).
1977. Person, Number, Gender in Chinook: Syntactic Rule and
Morphological Analogy. Proceedings of the Annual
Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 3:143-156.
1978. Yokuts: Introduction. In Heizer 1978, pp. 446-447.
1978. Deixis and Deducbility in a Wasco-Wishram Passive of
Evidence. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the
Berkeley Linguistics Society 4:238-54.
1979b. Two bis. IJAL 45:187-205. [Reply to Callaghan
1979b, Okrand 1979b, and Shipley & Smith 1979a.]
Swadesh, Morris.
1954. On the Penutian Vocabulary Survey. IJAL 20:123-133.
1964. Comparative Penutian Glosses of Sapir. In Bright
1964, pp. 182-191.
1964. Linguistic Overview. In: Jennings, Jesse D., &
Edward Norbeck (eds.), 1964, Prehistoric Man in the New
World (Rice University/University of Chicago Press),
pp. 527-556.
1965. Kalapuya and Takelma. IJAL 31:237-240.
Ultan, Russell.
1964. Proto-Maidun Phonology. IJAL 30:355-370.
Voegelin, C. F.
1946. Notes on Klamath-Modoc and Achumawi Dialects. IJAL
12:96-101.
Whistler, Kenneth W., & Victor Golla.
1986. Proto-Yokuts Reconsidered. IJAL 52:327-358.
Whistler, Kenneth W.
1977. Wintun Prehistory: An Interpretation Based on
Linguistic Reconstruction of Plant and Animal
Nomenclature. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the
Berkeley Linguistics Society 3:157-174.
1980. Proto-Wintun Kin Classification: A Case Study in
Reconstruction of a Complex Semantic System. Ph.D.
dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.
1981. Ablaut in Hill Patwin. In Schlichter, Alice et al.
(eds.), Survey Reports 1981 (Survey of California and
Other Indian Languages, Reports 1. Dept. of
Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley),
pp.42-94.
Whorf, Benjamin L.
1935. The Comparative Linguistics of Uto-Aztecan. AA
37:600-608.
III.MSS.
Brown, Cecil H.
ms 1990. Problems in Distant Genetic Comparison: The Case
of Mayan/Wintu.
Callaghan, Catherine A. and Geoffrey Gamble.
ms 1991. Yok-Utian. Paper delivered at the Hokan-Penutian
Workshop, Santa Cruz, July 1, 1991.
DeLancey, Scott
ms 1990. 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.
ms 1991. The development of the classificatory stem
category in Klamath. Paper delivered at the
Hokan-Penutian Workshop, Santa Cruz, July 1, 1991.
Gamble, Geoffrey L.
ms 1973. The Penutian Stock. Unpublished special field
examination in Linguistics, University of California,
Berkeley.
Golla, Victor
ms 1993 Alsea-Wintu Comparisons.
Hymes, Dell H.
ms. 1956-65. On the Relationship of Tsimshian and
Chinookan. Unpublished paper, 52 pp.
ms 1967? Penutian "Paint (Red)". Unpublished paper, 13 pp.
ms 1969. On Cayuse and Molale as Penutian. Unpublished
paper, 11 pp. [Based on an examination of Rigsby 1966,
1969.]
Okrand, Marc
ms 1974. A Survey of Studies in California Penutian
Languages. Unpublished special field examination in
Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley.
Shambach, Catherine.
ms 1977. A Preliminary Reconstruction of Proto Costanoan.
Unpublished paper, 30 pp.
Shevoroshkin, Vitaly.
ms 1980. On Sonorants in Penutian and Some Other NA
Languages. Unpublished paper, 30 pp.
ms 1982. Penutian Labial Stops (Initial Position).
Unpublished paper, 3 pp.
Shipley, William F.
ms 1965. The Present Scope and Limits of Penutian.
Silverstein, Michael.
ms 1967. Penutian Implications of Takelma Sibilant
Phonemes. Term Paper for MIT course, Fall 1966.
ms 1968? On the Validity of Subgrouping in Penutian.
Unpublished paper, 8 pp.
ms 1969. Tsimshian and Penutian Possessives. Unpublished
paper, read at AAA meeting, New Orleans, Nov. 1969; 11
pp.
ms 1970. The Diffusion of Vowel Harmony into California
Penutian. Unpublished paper, read at AAA meeting, San
Diego, Nov. 1970; 9 pp.
1972. Studies in Penutian I. California, 1. The
Structure of an Etymology. Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard
University.
Swadesh, Morris
ms 1957. Materiales para un diccionario del filum
penutioide.