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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 357 635 FL 021 222 AUTHOR Redden, James E., Ed. TITLE Papers from the Hokan-Penutian Languages Conference (Santa Barbara, CA, June 27, 1992) and the J. P. Harrington Conference (Santa Barbara, CA, June 24-27, 1992). Occasional Papers on Linguistics, Number 17. INSTITUTION Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale. Dept. of Linguistics. PUB DATE 92 NOTE 154p. PUB TYPE Collected Works Conference Proceedings (021) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC07 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *American Indian Languages; *Anthropological Linguistics; Consonants; *Distinctive Features (Language); Language Research; Nouns; Phonetics; Sentence Structure; *Structural Linguistics; Syntax; Vocabulary; Vowels; Word Lists IDENTIFIERS Chumash; Hualapai; *Langdon (Margaret); Miwok (Tribe); Phrasing; Yavapai; *Yuman Languages ABSTRACT Dedicated to Margaret Langdon at the University of California, San Diego, for her contributions to Yuman studies, this volume of occasional papers contains papers presented at two conferences on Hokan-Penutian languages. The papers and presenters are as follows: "Yuman Linguistics: The Work of Margaret Langdon". (Leanne Hinton), which is both a narrative of Margaret Langdon's career and a comprehensive list of her publications; "John P. Harrington's Phonetic Representations of Obispeno Chumash Palatal Consonants' (Kathryn A. Klar); "The Vocabularies of Scouler, Tolmie and Coulter: A Reappraisal" (Anthony P. Grant); "Descent of Lake Miwok" (Catherine A. Callaghan); "Maiduan Noun Phrase Structure" (Eric J. Bakovic); "An Early Dieguena Wordlist" (Margaret Langdon); "-k and -m in Yuma Narrative Texts" (Amy Miller); "Statives in Walapai" (James E. Redden); "Vowel Length in Yavapai Revisited" (Kimberly Diane Thomas); and "Comparatives in Yuman Languages" (Pamela Munro). Contains approximately 125 references. (LB) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** Number 17 Occasional PapersOn Linguistics Papers from the1992 HokanPenutian Languages Conference and theJ. P. Harrin.gton Conference, Held at the University of California, SantaBarbara, and the Museum of Natural History, SantaBarbara, June 24-27,1992. U.S. DECARTNIENT "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS Once ot Educational OF EDUCATION MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY Research and trnprovernent EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES CENTER (ERIC)INFORMATION (a)The document has beenreproduced as rcved from theperson or Orpanuation ongthatIng O Minor changes have been made to rproductroh qualify .mprove Points of new or opimons TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES ment do not noCes3riotystereo .n this docu- INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC).- OEM postton or 00I.Cy represent off ,o,at JDepartment of Linguistics 11,- Southern Illinois University at Carbondale BEST u0P1 AVAPAE OCCASIONAL PAPERS ON LINGUISTICS Number 17 Papers from the 1992 Hokan-Penutian Languages Conference and the J. P. Harrington Conference Held at The University of California, Santa Barbara and The Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara June 24-27, 1992 James E. Redden, Editor Department of Linguistics Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Illinois Library of Congress Catalog Number 92-062895 THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED TO PROFESSOR MARGARET LANGDON ON THE OCCASION OF HER RETIREMENT BY THE MEMBERS OF THE HOKAN-PENUTIAN LANGUAGES CONFERENCE FOR HER MANY IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO YUMAN STUDIES AND FOR HER ENCOURAGEMENT AND HELP TO ALL OF US. PREFACE The 1992 Hokan-Penutian Languages Conference was organized by the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and held at the Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, June 27, 1993. The J. P. Harrington Conference was held at the Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, June 24-26, 1993. Professor Victor Golla organized the J. P. Harrinton Conference. Presenters from both these groups were invited to submit papers for inclusion in the 1992 Hokan-Penutian volume. Papers from both these groups are included in the volume. The papers appear here in the order that they occurred on the programs. Unfortunately, some papers from these conferences could not be included in this volume. All the papers except the last one were given at one of the conferences. The last paper was to be presented at the Hokan-Penutian Languages Conference, but a family emergency prevented the author from presenting it. We are grateful to the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Professor Marianne Mithun for organizing the Hokan-Penutian Languages Conference.We are grateful to Professor Victor Golla of Humboldt 5tate University for organizing the J. P. Harrington Conference. Likewise, we are most grateful to the Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, its director, and its staff for hosting the conferences and making our stay in Santa Barbara most enjoyable. As noted on the dedication page, this volume is dedicated to Professor Margaret Langdon of the University of California, San Deigo, on the occasion of her retirement. She has been the guiding spirit behind Yuman Studies for some two decades. She established the Yuman Languages Archives at UCSD and organized the first three of the Hokan-Penutian Languages Conferences, which were called at the beginning the Yuman Languages Workshops. She has trained a number of well-known linguists who specialize in Yuman Studies. Her work in historical studies of Yuman and Hokan have benefited us all. She has been adviser, confidant, and helper of us all. We look forward to seeing the publication of the research she is still doing on Yunnan. To a gracious lady, scholar, and friend, we all say: "Thanks, Margaret, and keep on showing us the way in Yuman Studies." James E. Redden, Editor Carbondale, December 1992. TABLE OF CONTENTS Hinton, Leanne Yuman Linguistics: The Work of Margaret Langdon 1 Klar, Kathryn A. John P. Harrington's Phonetic Representations of Obispefio Chumash Palatal Consonants 17 Grant, Anthony P. The Vocabularies of Scowler, Tolmie and Coulter: A Reappraisal 20 Callaghan, Catherine A. Descent of Lake Miwok 45 BakoviC, Eric J. Maiduan Noun Phrase Structure 53 Langdon, Margaret An Early Dieguefia Wordlist 61 Miller, Amy -k and -m in Yuma Narrative Texts 69 Redden, James E. Statives in Walapai 82 Thomas, Kimberly Diane Vowel Length in Yavapai Revisited 90 Munro, Pamela Comparatives in Yuman Languages 132 Yuman Linguistics:the Work of Margaret Langdon Leanne Hinton University of California, Berkeley ?reword: Pamela Munro and I are editing a book on American Indian Linguistics, which will be published by UCPL.The book was originally conceived as a festschrift for Margaret Langdon, and this biography was written as the first article. UCPL, however, does not publish festchrifts.They accepted the book on its own merits, but in the end we were not able to include Margaret's biography init.I nevertheless hoped to put the biography in print somewhere, along with the complete list of her publications, in honor of her recent retirement from UCSD; so Jim Redden graciously allowed its publication in these proceedings. And Margaret herself says she is much happier with this arrangement, anyway! --LH The field of Yuman language studies owes its richness and direction to Margaret Langdon, who inspired and guided its development. Langdon's life has many chapters, and it is only in the later ones that linguistics plays a role.Nevertheless, an abiding love and proficiency for languages appears in all of them. Born Margaret Storms in Flemish-speaking Louvain, Belgium, she lived her first five years there, and then moved with her family to Brussels, where her father worked for the National City Bank of New York. Margaret was probably bilingual in French and Flemish early on, but she remembers coming home after her first day in a French-speaking Brussels kindergarten and announcing, "I'm through speaking that other language!" Having realized that children who spoke Flemish were laughed at, she left the language behind her, and spoke only French as her everyday language until she was an adult.French too was to be traded in later on for her adult language, English. At age 14, Margaret's young life was shattered by World War II. Margaret's mother was felled by a cerebral hemorrhage, and died in the hospital on the very day the Germans marched into Brussels.Margaret's only sister, who was six years younger, was sent to live with their mother's sister in the country. 1 The family lived right between several military targets, including a training center for shooting, an airport and a munitions depot.Luckily her neighborhood was never damaged, although she could hear the air raids, and see the smoke billowing up all around. Once Belgium surrendered to the Germans, the bombing of Brussels no longer came from Germany, but from the Allies, which of course was no better. Because they lived so close to military targets, Margaret and her father moved in with relatives near the center of town, which they hoped would remain safe from bombing because it was purely residential. During that time, the German troops broke into the Storms' house and occupied it. By the time Margaret's family returned, the house was a shambles.One of Margaret's most vivid memories from that painful era was the smell of the house upon her return: a smell of leather, metal and guns. During the war, Margaret graduated from the Lycee, and would have gone to the university in Brussels exceptthat the Germans closed it down.