TITLE

A History of Eyak Language Documentation and Study: Frederica de Laguna in Memoriam

AUTHOR(S)

Krauss, Michael E.

PUB. DATE

September 2006

SOURCE

Arctic Anthropology;2006, Vol. 43 Issue 2, p172

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Frederica de Laguna is generally considered the person who "discovered" Eyak. This paper chronicles a parade of characters who recorded Eyak in (over 9) vocabularies (1778-1862) and even phonographically (1899); more who defined or mapped it, even (1863) in color. Freddy's fieldwork of the 1930s is then discussed, and finally that of linguists after her (1940-2006). This is a history full of ironies that should entertain the reader appreciative of humanistics, human foibles, and the history of science.

ACCESSION #

24949172

 

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