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The field situation in Oregon: 1964

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Joe E. Pierce
Joe E. Pierce*
Affiliation:
Portland State College
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In a recent paper Melville Jacobs outlined briefly the history of linguistic research in connection with indigenous languages of Oregon. In this paper I will not repeat what has already been said, but rather attempt to describe the field situation in Oregon at the present time as accurately and completely as possible.

In May 1963 I began a survey of the indigenous languages still spoken in Oregon and the data presented below were derived from this survey. The purpose of the study was to determine the number of possible informants still using each of the native languages and the level of competence of each speaker in so far as this could be determined without actually doing linguistic field-work at the time. This information was a necessary prerequisite to the organization of a programme of research designed to salvage as much of the remaining languages in the area as possible.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 10 , Issue 2-3 , Spring 1965 , pp. 120 - 128
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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1965

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2 This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation under NSF research grant GS 72.

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5 For a more thorough discussion of linguistic groups listed as Athapaskan speaking, cf. Pierce, Joe E. and Ryherd, James M., The Status of Athapaskan Research in Oregon, IJAL 30 (1964), 137–43 Google Scholar.

6 Bruce Rigsby has been working for the past year with the Umatilla and Warm Springs Sahaptin, and Haruo Aoki is reportedly writing a grammar based on his field-work with the Nez Perce.

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