William O. Bright Papers 1950-2000

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William O. Bright Papers 1950-2000

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Collection consists of correspondence, notebooks, card files, and reprints.

58.0 Linear feet

American Philosophical Society

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Bright, William, 1928-2006

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American linguist William O. Bright studied Native American tongues and worked to preserve the language of California's Karuk tribe. Among the first professors of linguistics at UCLA, he taught at the University for 29 years, retiring in 1988. For 21 years, through 1987, he was editor of Language, the journal of the Linguistic Society of America. He wrote more than 200 books, articles and reviews, including several dictionaries of Native American languages that were on t...