Publications of interest

[Dave Robertson]

LhaXayEm!

  The Lewis County Historical Museum's quarterly newsletter, "The Lewis County Historian", in
  volume 22, number 4 (November 2000) contains Les Dooly's article, "The Friendly Chehalis".  The
  piece, about 2 1/2 pages long, contains a discussion of the role played by Chinook Jargon in
  the history of that part of Washington state, located between Seattle and Vancouver, WA.
  Thanks to Margaret Shields for providing this.

  The Canadian Museum of Civilization has just published Part 10 of twelve in its Nootka-Sapir
  Texts series.  This is Paper 134 in the Mercury Series of the Canadian Ethnology Service.  The
  volume, titled "The Whaling Indians:  West Coast Legends and Stories; Tales of Extraordinary
  Experience", contains accounts originally told in Nuu-chah-nulth language (Nootka), in both the
  original and in English translation.   The stories were told by Tom Sa:ya:ch'apis, William,
  Dick La:mah_o:s, Captain Bill, and Tyee Bob.  [Note that the first narrator's surname, which is
  translated as "High-Above", contains apparently the same root as Chinook Jargon /saya/ "far
  away".]   These stories are a priceless source of information on the lifeways of Nuu-chah-nulth
  people, and were collected early in the 20th century be the eminent linguist Edward Sapir.
   Thanks to Terry Klokeid for sending a copy.

  Those of you whose interest in Chinook Jargon includes putting it into perspective by comparing
  it with other pidgins and creoles might be interested in the following two items:

  LANGUAGE CONTACT
  Substratum, Superstratum, Adstratum in Germanic Languages
  Edited by Dirk Boutkan and Arend Quak
  Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA 2000. 243 pp.
  (Amsterdamer Beiträge zur Älteren Germanistik 54)
  ISBN: 90-420-1454-7 Hfl. 100,-/US-$ 43.-
  [includes:]  Frederik KORTLANDT: On Russenorsk.  (Thanks to the LINGUIST list.)

  Acaba de sair PAPIA 11 (2001), contendo as atas do Primeiro Econtro de Estudos Crioulos e
  Similares, realizado na Universiade de Brasília em 10 de novembro de 2000.  (This is a journal
  devoted to pidgins and creoles, mainly focusing on those with a Portuguese base.)   Their
  website is easy to find; issues are $15 US each, I think.  (Thanks to Celso Alvarez of the
  Code-Switching list; the table of contents of this issue of PAPIA can be found in the archives
  of that list.)

  Dave
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