A Catawba Lexicon

Alternate Language Names

Katapa.

Region

North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee, United States.

Who

Kathleen Dorette Shea.

Others Involved

David A. Dinneen, Kenneth L. Miner, Robert L. Rankin (Thesis Committee); Michael M.T. Henderson (Computational Assistance); Mary R. Haas (Linguistic Assistance); the University of Kansas Department of Linguistics faculty and staff (General Support); the University of Kansas Libraries Interlibrary Services, the Library of the American Philosophical Society, the National Anthropological Archives of the Smithsonian Institution (Resources).

Publishing Information

Published in 1984 by the University of Kansas as part of a Master’s thesis. It was digitized by UMI Microform.

How People are Cited

Contributors to this resource are listed in the Acknowledgements.

How Information is Cited

Information is listed in Chapter Two: Survey of Materials and Chapter Three: Discussion of the Sources as well as in the Bibliography.

Where is Information Coming from

Information in this dictionary comes from a corpus of previously documented language resources over the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Chapter Two: Survey of Materials describes each language documenter included in the corpus for Catawba, describing their connection to the community (e.g., anthropologists, surveyors, etc.) and their documentation works. The specific resources used in creating this resource are explained in Chapter Three: Discussion of the Sources and then listed more concisely in the Bibliography.

The documenters whose work contributed to this dictionary (and the publication years of those works accessed) include Frank T. Siebert, Jr.’s article (1945), Morris Swadesh’s field notes found in John F. Freeman and Murphy D. Smith’s article (1966), Amelia Susman’s lexicon (in Freeman and Smith 1966), Frank G. Speck’s field notes (in Freeman and Smith 1966), Truman Michelson’s field notes found in the National Anthropological Archives’ catalogue (1975), Albert S. Gatschet’s grammatical sketch (1900), and Oscar M. Lieber’s vocabulary (1858).

Tools and Framework used

This dictionary is available as both a physical and digital book.

Access

The physical book is accessible through libraries. The digital book (a scanned PDF) is available through ProQuest, which requires an institutional login or paid subscription.

Included Languages and Directionality

English to Catawba; Catawba to English.

Dialects Included

No dialect is specified for this dictionary.

Type of Dictionary

This is a bilingual, bidirectional dictionary.

How are Entries Organised

Entries are organized alphabetically by English and contain the English headword, the Catawba translation, and the word class. Many entries also contain Shea’s proposed phoneme in Catawba associated with the headword, example phrases in Catawba followed by the English translation given in the original source with Shea’s translation in parentheses behind, a note with comments or additional information, references to other or related English entries, or a list of unanalyzed Catawba phrases with their translations. Following the dictionary section, there is an index that is alphabetized by Catawba. These entries only contain the Catawba word and the English translation. No other information is included in these entries.

Preceding the dictionary there are several chapters with further information. Chapter One: Introduction includes an introduction to the Catawba language and a history of the Catawba people. Chapter Two: Survey of Materials gives a detailed description and introduction to each language documenter included in the Catawba corpus available at the time of this dictionary’s publication. Chapter Three: Discussion of the Sources details the specific previously written and/or published used to create this dictionary. In doing so, this chapter also discusses the orthography used, the sound system of Catawba, the method for the included English glosses, and the process of determining the Catawba phoneme.

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