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William H. Jacobsen, Jr.
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“Another Look at Sapir’s Evidence for
Inclusion of Haida in Na-Dene,” Linguistic Society of
America, Los Angeles, January 1993.
“Hokan Languages of Mexico,” Symposium
“Panorama de los estudios sobre las lenguas
indígenas de México,” 13th International
Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences,
Mexico City, July 1993.
“Harrington’s Encounter with Washo,” 2nd
Working Conference on the Papers of J. P. Harrington,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, November
1993.
“Characterizing and Evaluating Evidence for
Distant Genetic Relationships,” Symposium on
Comparative Linguistics and Historical Relationships,
American Association for the Advancement of Science, San
Francisco, February 1994.
“Washo Postpositions and Relational Nouns,”
1994 Hokan-Penutian Workshop, University of Oregon, Eugene,
July 1994.
“Inventory of Washo Lexical Prefixes,” 1995
Hokan-Penutian Workshop, University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, July 1995.
“‘Hardening’ and ‘Softening’
in Makah,” 31st International Conference on Salish and
Neighbouring Languages, University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, August 1996.
“Makah Ablaut,” Society for the Study of
the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York, July 1997.
“Makah Ablaut and Reduplication Patterns,”
32nd International Conference on Salish and Neighboring
Languages, Peninsula College, Port Angeles, Washington,
August 1997.
“The Earliest Makah Vocabulary,” Society
for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas,
New York, January 1998.
“Basque Origin Theories,” Session on
Language and Race as Ethnic Markers, Conference on Basques
in the Contemporary World: Migration, Identity, and
Globalization, Reno, July 1998.
“Shortening in Makah Ablaut,” 33rd
International Conference on Salish and Neighboring
Languages, University of Washington, Seattle, August
1998.
“Makah Labialization Dissimilation,”
Grammar and Typology Session, 37th Conference on American
Indian Languages, American Anthropological Association,
Philadelphia, December 1998.
“Mary Haas,” Symposium on Fieldwork and
Linguistic Theory: American Indianists in the Development of
American Linguistics, Linguistic Society of America, Los
Angeles, January 1999.
“The Makah Velar Increment,” 34th
International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring
Languages, Secwepemc Educational Institute, Kamloops,
British Columbia, August 1999.
“Makah Incremental -k-: Insertion or
Deletion?” Society for the Study of the Indigenous
Languages of the Americas, Chicago, January
2000.
“Washo Borrowings from English,” 2000
Hokan-Penutian Workshop, University of California, Berkeley,
June 2000.
Publications
Review of Fonología española, 2nd
edition, by E. Alarcos Llorac. Romance Philology 10
(1957): 258-266.
“Washo and Karok: An Approach to Comparative
Hokan.” International Journal of American
Linguistics 24 (1958): 195-212.
(with Sydney M. Lamb) “A High-Speed
Large-Capacity Dictionary System.” Mechanical
Translation 6 (1961): 76-107. Abridged reprinting in
Readings in Automatic Language Processing, edited by
David G. Hays, 51-72 New York: American Elsevier Publishing
Co., 1966.
(with Sydney M. Lamb, Russell K. Gardiner, and John
H. Wahlgren) “On the Organization of Information in an
MT Dictionary.” Machine Translation Project, University
of California, Berkeley, 1961. Dittoed, 44
pp.
Annotated translation of V. Gutu-Romalo, “The
Determination of the Date of Separation of Aroumanian from
Daco-Rumanian with the Help of Glottochronology.”
International Journal of American Linguistics 28
(1962): 55-61.
“The Study of Linguistics within the
Program.” Seminar in Language and Language Learning.
Final Report, 125-132. Seattle: Department of Romance
Languages and Literature, University of Washington,
1962.
“A Grammar of the Washo Language.”
Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1964. Ann
Arbor: University Microfilms, No.
64-13,024.
“Washo Linguistic Studies.” In The
Current Status of Anthropological Research in the Great
Basin: 1964, edited by Warren L. d’Azevedo, et al.,
113-136. Desert Research Institute, Social Sciences and
Humanities Publications, 1. Reno: Desert Research Institute,
1966.
“Comments on Linguistics.” Ibid.,
259-264.
“Comment on Nikolaas J. van der Merwe’s
‘New Mathematics for Glottochronology.’”
Current Anthropology 7 (1966):
493-495.
“Switch-Reference in Hokan-Coahuiltecan.”
In Studies in Southwestern Ethnolinguistics: Meaning and
History in the Languages of the American Southwest
edited by Dell H. Hymes with William E. Bittle, 238-263.
Studies in General Anthropology, 3. The Hague & Paris:
Mouton & Co., 1967.
“Comment on James A. Goss’s
‘Culture-Historical Inference from Utaztekan Linguistic
Evidence.’” In Utaztekan Prehistory edited
by Earl H. Swanson, Jr., 43-52. Occasional Papers of the
Idaho State University Museum, No. 22. Pocatello, Idaho,
1968.
“On the Prehistory of Nez Perce Vowel
Harmony.” Language 44 (1968):
819-829.
“Origin of the Nootka Pharyngeals.”
International Journal of American Linguistics 35
(1969): 125-153.
“Basque Is Beautiful.” Quinto Lingo
8 (May 1970): 9-13.
“Comment on András Zakar’s
‘Sumerian-Ural-Altaic Affinities.’”
Current Anthropology 12 (1971):
217-219.
“The First Basque Grammar.” Basque
Studies Program Newsletter 8 (1973):
4-7.
“Nominative-Ergative Syncretism in Basque.”
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca
“Julio de Urquijo” 6 (1972): 67-109. San
Sebastián: Excma. Diputación de
Guipúzcoa, 1974.
“Comment on David W. McAlpin’s
‘Elamite and Dravidian: Further Evidence of
Relationship.’” Current Anthropology 16
(1975): 109-110.
“Observations on the Yana Stop Series in
Relationship to Problems of Comparative Hokan
Phonology.” In Hokan Studies: Papers from the First
Conference on Hokan Languages, edited by Margaret
Langdon and Shirley Silver, 203-236. Janua Linguarum, Series
Practica, 181. The Hague & Paris: Mouton,
1976.
“A Glimpse of the Pre-Washo Pronominal
System.” In Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting
of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 19-21,
1977, edited by Kenneth Whistler et al., 55-73. Berkeley:
Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1977.
“The Basque Locative Suffix.” In
Anglo-American Contributions to Basque Studies: Essays in
Honor of Jon Bilbao, edited by William A. Douglass,
Richard W. Etulain, and William H. Jacobsen, Jr., 163-168.
Desert Research Institute Publications in the Social
Sciences, No. 13. Reno: Desert Research Institute,
1977.
“Washo Internal Diversity and External
Relations.” In Selected Papers from the 14th Great
Basin Anthropological Conference, edited by Donald R.
Tuohy, 115-147. Ballena Press Publications in Archaeology,
Ethnology and History, No. 11. Socorro, New Mexico: Ballena
Press, 1978.
“Noun and Verb in Nootkan.” In The
Victoria Conference on Northwestern Languages, edited by
Barbara S. Efrat., 83-155. British Columbia Provincial
Museum Heritage Record, No. 4. Victoria: British Columbia
Provincial Museum, 1979.
“Hokan Inter-Branch Comparisons.” In The
Languages of Native America: Historical and Comparative
Assessment, edited by Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun,
545-591. Austin and London: University of Texas Press,
1979.
“Wakashan Comparative Studies.”
Ibid., 766-791.
“Chimakuan Comparative Studies.”
Ibid., 792-802.
“Why Does Washo Lack a Passive?” In
Ergativity: Towards a Theory of Grammatical
Relations, edited by Frans Plank, 145-160. London:
Academic Press, 1979.
First Lessons in Makah. Neah Bay, Washington:
Makah Cultural and Research Center,
1979.
“Gender and Personification in Washo.”
Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology -
Papers in Linguistics 1 (1979):
75-84.
“Washo Bipartite Verb Stems.” In
American Indian and Indoeuropean Studies: Papers in Honor
of Madison S. Beeler, edited by Kathryn Klar, Margaret
Langdon, and Shirley Silver, 85-99. Trends in Linguistics,
Studies and Monographs, 16. The Hague, Paris and New York:
Mouton, 1980.
“Metaphors in Makah Neologisms.” In Proceedings of
the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics
Society, February 16-18, 1980, edited by Bruce R. Caron
et al., 166-179. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society,
1980.
“Inclusive/Exclusive: A Diffused Pronominal
Category in Native Western North America.” In Papers
from the Parasession on Pronouns and Anaphora, Chicago
Linguistic Society, April 18-19, 1980, edited by Jody
Kreiman and Almerindo E. Ojeda, 204-227. Chicago: Chicago
Linguistic Society, 1980.
Contributor to Basque Americans: A Guide to
Information Sources, edited by William A. Douglass and
Richard W. Etulain. Ethnic Studies Information Guide Series,
Vol. 6. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1981. [69
abstracts on Basque language and
linguistics].
“Basque Copulative Compounds: A Problem in
Irreversible Binomials.” In Proceedings of the
Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society,
February 13-15, 1982 edited by Monica Macaulay, Orin D.
Gensler, et al., 384-397. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics
Society, 1982.
“Typological and Genetic Notes on
Switch-Reference Systems in North American Indian
Languages.” In Switch-Reference and Universal
Grammar, edited by John Haiman and Pamela Munro,
151-183. Typological Studies in Language, Vol. 2. Amsterdam
and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company,
1983.
“The Analog of the Passive Transformation in
Ergative-Type Languages.” In Grammar Inside and
Outside the Clause: Some Approaches to Theory from the
Field edited by Johanna Nichols and Anthony C. Woodbury,
176-191. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1985.
“The Heterogeneity of Evidentials in
Makah.” In Evidentiality: The Linguistic Coding of
Epistemology, edited by Wallace L. Chafe and Johanna
Nichols, 3-28. Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex,
1986.
“Washoe Language.” In Handbook of North
American Indians, Volume 11: Great Basin, edited by
Warren L. d’Azevedo, 107-112. Washington: Smithsonian
Institution, 1986.
“Washo Linguistic Prehistory.” In Papers
from the 1983, 1984, and 1985 Hokan-Penutian Languages
Conferences, edited by James E. Redden, 33-58.
Occasional Papers on Linguistics, No. 13. Carbondale:
Department of Linguistics, Southern Illinois University,
1986.
“The Root of the Matter: Reflections on English
Etymological Dictionaries.” In The Legacy of
Language: A Tribute to Charlton Laird edited by Phillip
C. Boardman, 20-52. Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada
Press, 1987.
Review of Gorka Aulestia, Basque-English
Dictionary. American Reference Books Annual 21
(1990): 440. Englewood, Colorado: Libraries
Unlimited.
Review of Norman W. Schur, 1000 Most Obscure
Words, American Reference Books Annual 22 (1991): 423.
Englewood, Colorado: Libraries
Unlimited.
Review of Donald G. Frantz and Norma Jean Russell,
Blackfoot Dictionary of Stems, Roots, and Affixes,
American Reference Books Annual 23 (1992): 428-429.
Englewood, Colorado: Libraries
Unlimited.
“Subordination and Cosubordination in Nootka:
Clause Combining in a Polysynthetic Verb-initial
Language.” In Advances in Role and Reference
Grammar, edited by Robert D. Van Valin, Jr., 235-274.
Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing
Company, 1993.
“Indian Languages: Western.” In
Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies, Volume
3, edited by Jacob Ernest Cooke, 47-51. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1993.
“Haas, Mary Rosamond (1910- ).” In The
Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics, Volume 3,
edited by R. E. Asher, 1519-1520. Oxford: Pergamon Press,
1994.
“Nootkan Vocative Vocalism and Its
Implications.” In Sound Symbolism, edited by
Leanne Hinton, Johanna Nichols, and John J. Ohala, 23-39.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1994.
“Letter to the editor, Scientific
American.” California Linguistic Notes 24, no.2
(Spring 1994): 24.
“Comment on R. L. Trask’s ‘Basque and
Dene-Caucasian: A Critique from the Basque Side.’”
Mother Tongue 1 (December 1995):
120-142.
“Washo Pronouns.” In Proceedings of the
Hokan-Penutian Workshop, July 8-9, 1994, University of
Oregon, Eugene, and July 5-6, 1996, University of New
Mexico, Albuquerque, edited by Victor Golla, 175-176.
Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, Report 9.
Berkeley: Department of Linguistics, University of
California, Berkeley, 1996.
Beginning Washo. Nevada State Museum
Occasional Papers, No. 5. Carson City: Nevada State Museum,
1996.
“Mary R. Haas’s Contributions to Wakashan
Linguistics.” Anthropological Linguistics 39
(1997): 569-577.
“Headless Relative Clauses in Washo.” In
Studies in American Indian Languages: Description and
Theory, edited by Leanne Hinton and Pamela Munro,
102-116. University of California Publications in
Linguistics, Vol. 131. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London:
University of California Press, 1998.
“Basque Language Origin Theories.” In
Basque Cultural Studies, edited by William A.
Douglass, Carmelo Urza, Linda White, and Joseba Zulaika,
27-43. Basque Studies Program Occasional Papers Series, No.
5. Reno: Basque Studies Program, University of Nevada, Reno,
1999.
First Lessons in Makah, revised edition. Neah
Bay, Washington: Makah Cultural and Research Center,
1999.
“On Objective Techniques for Relating Languages
and the Haida-Na-Dene Hypothesis.” (under
submission).
Professional Societies
Linguistic Society of America (Life Member).
International Linguistic Association.
Canadian Linguistic Association.
Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the
Americas (Vice President 1991, President 1992).
Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory.
North American Association for the History of the Language
Sciences.
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association.
American Anthropological Association (Fellow).
Society for Linguistic Anthropology.
Southwestern Anthropological Association.
Great Basin Anthropological Conference.
American Oriental Society.
Other Memberships
American Civil Liberties Union.
California Alumni Asociation.
Citizen Alert.
Council for Secular Humanism (Associate Member).
Handgun Control.
Harvard Alumni Association.
Mensa.
National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League.
National Committee for an Effective Congress.
Nevada Opera Association.
Nevada State Museum.
Peace Action.
People for the American Way.
Phi Beta Kappa.
Phi Kappa Phi.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Reno Philharmonic Association.
War Resisters League.
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