The Snoqualmie - Duwamish Dialects of Puget Sound Coast Salish An Outline of Phonemics and Morphology
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1950. First Edition. Printed wrappers, stapled. Small 4to. Pp. vi, 78. With a foreword by Melville Jacobs. Bound in printed wraps. Former owner name discreetly stamped on front cover and title page (that of Claire E. Stevens). General wear; cover unevenly faded; light underlining throughout in red and graphite pencil. Good. Item #6534 This copy was owned by Claire E. Stevens, a linguist also associated with the University of Washington (A Characterization of Spanish Nouns and Adjectives). A scarce work in any condition. Now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve with an acid-free backing.
University of Washington Publications in Anthropology Volume 12. The introduction, by Melville Jacobs (Winning Oregon), reveals Tweddell expanding on the work by etymologist pioneers Franz Boas, Thelma Adamson and Ethel Aginsky in the 1930s. At the time Tweddell was teaching Chinese at the UW's Far Eastern Department; following his service in WWII, he embarked for work in Western China, and left this manuscript for Jacobs to prepare for publication.
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