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William H. Jacobsen, Jr.
Professor Emeritus, English
whj@scs.unr.edu
775.784.6689
Vita
Education
Harvard University, Cambridge, A.B., magna cum laude, June
1953.
Field of concentration: Linguistics and Romance
Languages.
Honors thesis: “Origin and Function of the Definite
Article.”
Indiana University, Bloomington, Linguistic Institute,
Summers 1952 and 1953.
University of California, Berkeley, September 1953-June
1959.
Ph.D., June 1964.
Field of study: Linguistics.
Title of dissertation: “A Grammar of the Washo
Language.”
Fellowships and Honors
Harvard College Honorary Scholarship, 1952-53.
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship to the
Linguistic Institute, Summer 1953.
Phi Beta Kappa, 1953.
University Fellowship in Linguistics, University of
California, Berkeley, 1954-55 and 1956-57.
Sigma Xi, l956.
Phi Kappa Phi, l969.
Outstanding Researcher Award, University of Nevada, Reno,
1983.
Charter Member, Center for Advanced Study, University of
Nevada, Reno, 1984.
Professional Employment
Teaching Assistant in Linguistics, University of California,
Berkeley, 1957-59.
Graduate Research Linguist, Machine Translation Project,
University of California, Berkeley, 1959-61.
Acting Assistant Professor, University of Washington,
Seattle, Anthropology, 1961-62, Linguistics, 1962-64.
Visiting Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of
California, Berkeley, Spring 1971.
Assistant Professor of English, University of Nevada, Reno,
1965-68; Associate Professor, 1968-74; Professor, 1974-; of
Linguistics, 1989-; Emeritus, 1994 -.
Research Interests
Descriptive and historical linguistics; American Indian
languages; Basque.
Papers Read
“Internal Reconstruction of Washo Stop Series,”
Linguistic Society of America, University of Texas, Austin,
July 1960.
“Structural Characteristics of Hokan
Languages,” Southwestern Anthropological Association,
University of California, Santa Barbara, March
1961.
“Switch-Reference: A Hokan-Coahuiltecan
Syntactic Device,” Linguistic Society of America,
Chicago, December 1961.
“Trees and Chains,” Linguistic Society of
America, University of Washington, Seattle, July
1962.
“Unordering Washo Morphophonemics,”
Linguistic Society of America, University of Washington,
Seattle, July 1963.
“The Status of Washo Linguistic Studies,”
Great Basin Anthropological Conference, University of
Nevada, Reno, September 1964.
“Components of Cardinal Directions in Some
California Indian Languages,” Southwestern
Anthropological Association, University of California, Los
Angeles, April 1965.
“Comment on James Goss’s
‘Culture-Historical Inference from Utaztekan Linguistic
Evidence,’” Plenary Symposium on Utaztekan
Prehistory, Joint Session of the Society for American
Archaeology and the Great Basin Anthropological Conference,
University of Nevada, Reno, May 1966.
“Notes on Makah Neologisms,” Northwest
Anthropological Conference, University of Washington,
Seattle, March 1967.
“Origin of the Nootka Pharyngeals,” Third
International Conference on Salish Languages, University of
Victoria, August 1968.
“Traces of Glottalized Resonants in Makah,”
Linguistic Society of America, New York, December
1968.
“Labialization in Nootkan,” Fourth
International Conference on Salish Languages, University of
Victoria, August 1969.
“Washo Bipartite Verb Stems,” Symposium of
the 8th Conference on American Indian Languages, American
Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November
1969.
“The Analog of the Passive Transformation in
Ergative-Type Languages,” Linguistic Society of
America, San Francisco, December 1969.
“Observations on the Yana Stop Series in
Relationship to Problems of Comparative Hokan
Phonology,” Conference on Hokan Languages, University
of California, La Jolla, April 1970.
“Rule Ordering in Vizcayan Basque Vowel
Harmony,” California Linguistics Conference, University
of California, Berkeley, May 1971.
“Makah Vowel Insertion and Loss,” Sixth
International Conference on Salish Languages, British
Columbia Provincial Museum, Victoria, August
1971.
“Development of the Inclusive/Exclusive Category
in Washo,” Great Basin Anthropological Conference,
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, September
1972.
“Nominative-Ergative Syncretism in Basque,”
Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, San
Francisco, November 1972.
“A Rhythmic Principle in Washo
Morphotactics,” Symposium on California Indian
Linguistics, Southwestern Anthropological Association, San
Francisco, April 1973.
“The Pattern of Makah Pronouns,” Eighth
International Conference on Salish Languages, University of
Oregon, Eugene, August 1973.
“Washo Internal Diversity and External
Relations,” Great Basin Anthropological Conference,
Carson City, September 1974.
“Why Does Washo Lack a Passive?” Symposium
of the 13th Conference on American Indian Languages,
American Anthropological Association, Mexico City, November
1974, and Linguistic Society of America, New York, December
1974.
“Historical Implications of the Western Basque
Tonal Accent,” Linguistic Society of America, San
Francisco, December 1975.
“Gender and Personification in Washo,”
Southwestern Ethnolinguistics Session, Southwestern
Anthropological Association, San Francisco, April
1976.
“Wakashan,” Northwest Coast Studies
Conference, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, May
1976.
“Chimakuan Comparative Studies,”
“Wakashan Comparative Studies,” and “Hokan
Inter-Branch Comparisons,” Conference on American
Indian Linguistics: An Assessment, State University of New
York, Oswego, August 1976.
“Noun and Verb in Nootkan,” Victoria
Conference on Northwestern Languages, British Columbia
Provincial Museum, Victoria, November
1976.
“A Glimpse of the Pre-Washo Pronominal
System,” Berkeley Linguistics Society, University of
California, Berkeley, February 1977.
Discussant in Colloquium “On the Distribution of
Passive and Antipassive Constructions in Universal
Grammar,” Linguistic Society of America, Chicago,
December 1977.
“Makah Vocative Vocalism,” Thirteenth
International Conference on Salishan Languages, University
of Victoria, August 1978.
“Thoughts on Extrapolation from Linguistics: A
Question of Boundaries,” Science Fiction Research
Association, South Lake Tahoe, June
1979.
“Notation for Structural Sound Change,”
Linguistic Society of America, Los Angeles, December
1979.
“Metaphors in Makah Neologisms,” Berkeley
Linguistics Society, University of California, Berkeley,
February 1980.
“Inclusive/Exclusive: A Diffused Pronominal
Category in Native Western North America,” Parasession
on Pronouns and Anaphora, Chicago Linguistic Society,
University of Chicago, April 1980.
“Discussion of Kenneth Hale’s ‘Some
Remarks on Papago Conjunctions,’” Symposium on
Uto-Aztecan Historical Linguistics, University of New
Mexico, Albuquerque, June 1980.
“Reduplication in Washo: An Alternative
Hypothesis,” History West and East Session, 19th
Conference on American Indian Languages, American
Anthropological Association, Washington, December
1980.
“Headless Relative Clauses in Washo,”
Conference on the Syntax of Native American Languages,
University of Calgary, March 1981.
“Typological and Genetic Notes on
Switch-Reference Systems in North American Indian
Languages,” International Symposium on Switch-Reference
and Universal Grammar, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, May
1981.
“The Heterogeneity of Evidentials in Makah
Structure,” Evidentials Symposium, University of
California, Berkeley, May 1981.
“Basque Copulative Compounds: A Problem in
Irreversible Binomials,” Berkeley Linguistics Society,
University of California, Berkeley, February
1982.
“Washo Linguistic Prehistory,” 1984
Hokan-Penutian Workshop, University of California, Berkeley,
June 1984.
“The Root of the Matter: Some Reflections on
English Etymological Dictionaries,” The Miracle of
Language: A Symposium in Honor of Charlton Laird, University
of Nevada, Reno, November 1984.
“Subordination and Cosubordination in Nootka:
Clause Combining in a Polysynthetic Verb-initial
Language,” Clause Combining Workshop, Rensselaerville
Institute, New York, November 1985.
“Makah Vocative Vocalism,” Sound Symbolism
Conference, University of California, Berkeley, January
1986.
“Washo Transitivity Derivation,” Haas
Festival Conference, University of California, Santa Cruz,
June 1986.
“Washo Nominal Possession: Form and
Function,” 1987 Hokan-Penutian Workshop, University of
Utah, Salt Lake City, June 1987.
“Greenberg on Hokan,” 1988 Hokan-Penutian
Workshop, University of Oregon, Eugene, June
1988.
“A Look at Greenberg’s Almosan-Keresiouan
Hypothesis,” 23rd International Conference on Salish
and Neighboring Languages, University of Oregon, Eugene,
August 1988.
“The Nootka Absolutive and Generalized Clause
Chaining,” Society for the Study of the Indigenous
Languages of the Americas, University of Arizona, Tucson,
July 1989.
“The Pacific Orientation of Western North
American Languages,” Circum-Pacific Prehistory
Conference, Seattle, August 1989.
“Towards a Uniform Evaluation of Proposed
Genetic Relationships: Greenberg’s North American
Amerind,” Language and Prehistory in the Americas: A
Conference on the Greenberg Classification, University of
Colorado, Boulder, March 1990.
“How Have We Classified These Languages?”
Presidential Address, Society for the Study of the
Indigenous Languages of the Americas, San Francisco,
December 1992.
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