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Plains Miwok Dictionary
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Language Name
Plains Miwok.
Alternate Language Names
Valley Miwok.
Region
California, United States.
Who
Catherine A. Callaghan.
Others Involved
Aza McCauley, Mabel Walloupe, Helena "Nellie" McCauley (Speakers); Marcia Hurlow Stump, S.H. Tsang (Typing); the Survey of California Indian Languages of the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, the American Philosophical Society, the American Association of University Women, the National Science Foundation, the Ohio State University (Funding).
Publishing Information
Published 1984 by University of California Press as part of the University of California Publications in Linguistics, Vol. 105.
How People are Cited
People are cited on the title page and in the Introduction.
How Information is Cited
Speakers are cited by name and dialect in the Introduction. Previously published works are cited on the last page of the Introduction, under the title Notes to Introduction.
Where is Information Coming from
Information in this dictionary mainly comes from speakers who worked with the author during her years of fieldwork, starting in 1956 through to publication. At the time of its publication, this was the fifth Miwok dictionary created. It is unclear whether the four previous dictionaries, which are listed in the Introduction, were used in the making of this dictionary. The biological entries are largely from C. Hart Merriam's Indian Names for Plants and Animals Among California and Other Western North American Tribes (1979).
Tools and Framework used
This dictionary is available as a physical book.
Access
This dictionary is accessible through libraries.
Included Languages and Directionality
Plains Miwok to English; English to Plains Miwok.
Dialects Included
This dictionary includes information from the Jackson Valley, Lockford, and Pleasanton dialects of Plains Miwok.
Type of Dictionary
This is a bilingual, bidirectional dictionary.
How are Entries Organised
Entries are organised alphabetically by Plains Miwok (according to the alphabet listed on pp. 3 and 11) in the first section, Plains Miwok–English. Entries include the Plains Miwok headword (or affix), the part of speech, and the English definition (or a description of the word where a one-to-one definition is not possible). Many entries also include example words or phrases in both Plains Miwok and English and related words. Verb entries contain information to do with conjugation and tense. Entries are organised alphabetically by English in the English–Plains Miwok section, which is to be used as an index of the first section. Therefore, entries only include the English headword and the Plains Miwok translation(s).
There is a brief Grammatical Synopsis prior to the dictionary sections which explains the types of morphemes used in Plains Miwok, and information on nouns, verbs, and sentence structure. Following this, there is a description of the sound system.
The final page of the first dictionary section contains information about principal stem types and some examples.
Other Features
| Feature | Included | More Information |
|---|---|---|
| Guide to use and understand | ✅ | A brief explanation in the Introduction and a description of abbreviations in Abbreviations and Special Expressions |
| Audio | ❌ | |
| Images | ❌ | |
| Example phrases | ✅ | In most entries |
| Speakers marked | ✅ | Speakers are identified by their dialects in the Introduction, and are therefore marked through dialect identification within entries |
| Dialects marked | ✅ | Marked with an abbreviation in entries where the Plains Miwok terms differ or are not confirmed by all speakers |
External Links
Reference on WorldCat: https://www.worldcat.org/title/10100642
A review of this dictionary by Sylvia M. Broadbent (1986) in American Anthropologist: New Series, Vol. 88, No. 3 (requires institutional credentials to access): https://www.jstor.org/stable/679520?saml_data=eyJzYW1sVG9rZW4iOiI3MTcxYTRlOS00MmM2LTQyZjQtYTk2Yi02NjFjOTNlMGYwNDUiLCJpbnN0aXR1dGlvbklkcyI6WyIxMjJiMTFjOS00YWE5LTQzY2UtYWQzZS0xMmUyYTE4YmU3ZWUiXX0