Southern Pomo Textual Dictionary Draft
This database includes all lexical entries from the extant transcribed and translated monologic narratives recorded in Southern Pomo. All but one of these come from Halpern’s archived notes at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages at the University of California at Berkeley. One of these texts is from Oswalt (1978). Please see Walker (2013) for a detailed description of Southern Pomo and a full explanation of extant sources.
Recent work on this project was supported by a NEH-NSF Documenting Endangered Languages Fellowship (Grant No. FN-230222-15). Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this draft do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation.
Draft Textual Dictionary of Southern Pomo
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Halpern, Abraham. 1984. Southern Pomo h and ʔ and Their Reflexes.
Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 4: 3-43.
Halpern, Abraham. Unpublished field notes on Northeastern Pomo.
Survey of California and Other Indian Languages. University of California at Berkeley.
Oswalt, Robert 1976. Comparative verb morphology of Pomo. In Hokan Studies, Papers from the First Conference on Hokan Languages, held in San Diego, California, April 23-25, 1970, M. Langdon and S. Silver, eds. Janua Linguarum, Series Practica 181: 13-28.
Oswalt, Robert 1978. Retribution for mate-stealing: A Southern Pomo tale. In: Northern California Texts. V. Golla and S. Silver, eds. IJAL-NATS.
Oswalt, Robert 1981. Southern Pomo word list and map of native place names in the Warm Springs area. San Francisco. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Oswalt, Robert L. Unpublished field notes on Northeastern Pomo. Survey of California and Other Indian Languages. University of California at Berkeley.
Walker, Neil Alexander. 2013. A Grammar of Southern Pomo: An Indigenous Language of California. PhD dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara.