Papers regarding Pacific linguistics
MS 1056
1897-1938 {Bulk: 1913-38}
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Dempwolff, Otto, 1871-1938
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Highly regarded German linguist who researched and published extensively on the languages of Africa, South East Asia and Oceania. Much of Dempwolff's Pacific field research was carried out in German New Guinea during the years 1909-14.<BR>(See: Robert Blust, Dempwolff's contributions to Austronesian linguisitics, Afrika und Ubersee, vol. 71, no. 2, 1988, pp. 167-76)
Handwritten and typescript notes and drafts, mostly in German, on the languages of New Guinea and Tahiti, with some comparative material drawing upon some languages of South East Asia (eg: Tagalog and Malay) and New Caledonia. The bulk of the material was written by Dempwolff in preparation for academic publication during the 1920s and 1930s. Also included is some associated correspondence and some research notes made during field work. The New Guinea languages covered include Tuna (New Britain), Kate, Graged, Sia, Jabem, Adzera, and Sepa. The material on the Tahitian language draws upon information supplied by Christian Schacht.<BR>A detailed inventory appears at the beginning of each reel.
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Dempwolff, Otto, 1871-1938
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Seminar fur Indonesische und Sudseesprachen Universitat Hamburg, Bogengallee 11, 2000, Hamburg 13, GERMANY
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Papers regarding Pacific linguisitics, Reel 1, pp.1-104
MS 1056-01a
1897-1938
Papers regarding Pacific linguisitics, Reel 1, pp.1-104. Papers compiled by linguist Otto Dempwolff (1871-1938). Unless otherwise stated items are hand written in pencil in the old German (‘Stütterlin’) system of writing on A4 paper. Includes: Pidgin English of German New Guinea about Graged grammar, etymology and orthography; and 34 typed pages.
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Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 1, pp.105-187
MS 1056-01b
1897-1938
Papers regarding Pacific linguisitics, Reel 1, pp.105-187. Papers compiled by linguist Otto Dempwolff (1871-1938). Unless otherwise stated items are hand written in pencil in the old German (‘Stütterlin’) system of writing on A4 paper. Includes: language of Graged (vocabulary, grammar, etc.), part 3, 81 pp.
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Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 1, pp.188-276
MS 1056-01c
1897-1938
Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 1, pp.188-276. Papers compiled by linguist Otto Dempwolff (1871-1938). Unless otherwise stated items are hand written in pencil in the old German (‘Stütterlin’) system of writing on A4 paper. Includes part of 'Blue folder in capsule II' as follows: Comparative grammar of Oceanic [meaning Malayo-Polynesian] languages, 1937, based on Tagalog, Ngadju-Dayak, Toba-Batak and Malay, 62 typed pp.; Notes on additional languages: Kãte p.1-6, Graged p.7-10, Jabem p.11-14, Pidgin English p.15-16.; Appendix 1: The Austronesian language type, 9 pp.
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Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 1, pp.277-398
MS 1056-01d
1897-1938
Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 1, pp.277-398. Papers compiled by linguist Otto Dempwolff (1871-1938). Unless otherwise stated items are hand written in pencil in the old German (‘Stütterlin’) system of writing on A4 paper.
List of desiderata (suggested projects for the Hamburg Institute) Various notes, ~100pp.
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Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 1, pp.399-486
MS 1056-01e
1897-1938
Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 1, pp.399-486. Papers compiled by linguist Otto Dempwolff (1871-1938). Unless otherwise stated items are hand written in pencil in the old German (‘Stütterlin’) system of writing on A4 paper. Includes: The Siã language (New Guinea), 33 +7+12+16 pp, based on data or notes from the missionaries Stolz and Zahn.; Comparison of New Caledonian languages (based on Leenhardt's Hienghene and Houailou), ~5 pp; and 'Copious notes on Ponerihouen'.
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Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 1, pp.487-592
MS 1056-01f
1897-1938
Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 1, pp.487-592. Papers compiled by linguist Otto Dempwolff (1871-1938). Unless otherwise stated items are hand written in pencil in the old German (‘Stütterlin’) system of writing on A4 paper. Includes: Method of language research, part II, S57-61, 12 typed pp. and ~ 50pp. more of notes; and The psychology of so called primitive languages, 5pp., 3 typed pp.
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Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 1, pp.593-745
MS 1056-01g
1897-1938
Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 1, pp.593-745. Papers compiled by linguist Otto Dempwolff (1871-1938). Unless otherwise stated items are hand written in pencil in the old German (‘Stütterlin’) system of writing on A4 paper. Includes part of 'Capsule III' on reel list: 'Medicine and superstition of primitive peoples (talks)'; 'Collation of Bible translations (in Greek, Malay, Toba-Batak, Tagalog, Tuna, Jabêm, Suaheli and Nama) for grammatical comparisons', ~30pp.; and 'Adzera language'. (blue folder 123pp., red one ~30pp.).
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Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 2, pp.1-180
MS 1056-02a
1897-1938
Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 2, pp.1-180. Papers compiled by linguist Otto Dempwolff (1871-1938). Unless otherwise stated items are hand written in pencil in the old German (‘Stütterlin’) system of writing on A4 paper. Includes part of Reel 1 'Adzera language. (blue folder 123pp., red one ~30pp.)'. Also part of Reel 2 'Capsule IV': Envelope with bilingual official documents and letters in vernacular from German New Guinea; Jabêm appendix, 4pp.; and pp1-101 of 'Kãte grammar, 4th version of 1931/32', 151 typed pages.
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Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 2, pp.181-324
MS 1056-02b
1897-1938
Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 2, pp.181-324. Papers compiled by linguist Otto Dempwolff (1871-1938). Unless otherwise stated items are hand written in pencil in the old German (‘Stütterlin’) system of writing on A4 paper. Includes part of Reel 2, 'Capsule IV': pp102-151 of 'Kãte grammar, 4th version of 1931/32', 151 typed pages total; and 5 typed pp. of exercises and 50pp. of notes on Kãte hypotheses of the culture area school (Graebner et al.) ~60pp.
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Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 2, pp.325-481
MS 1056-02c
1897-1938
Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 2, pp.325-481. Papers compiled by linguist Otto Dempwolff (1871-1938). Unless otherwise stated items are hand written in pencil in the old German (‘Stütterlin’) system of writing on A4 paper. Includes part of Reel 2, 'Capsule IV': Examples of poetry (from all AN areas), ~60pp.; Mythology of an Oceanic people, winter 1923/24, ~20pp.; 'World views of primitive peoples as reflected in their languages'; and 'On so-called special (i.e. secret) languages', ~25pp.
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Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 2, pp.482-646
MS 1056-02d
1897-1938
Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 2, pp.482-646. Papers compiled by linguist Otto Dempwolff (1871-1938). Unless otherwise stated items are hand written in pencil in the old German (‘Stütterlin’) system of writing on A4 paper.
Includes: Blue folder, 'Corrections to Dempwolff's Tuna manuscript by his missionary informant',~10 typed pp.; Yellow folder 'Tuna mss ("to be kept until Dempwolff's manuscript has been printed")', letters with typed transcript and translation, ~50pp.; and Blue folder containing - 'Deduction of Tuna words from Proto-Austronesian', ~7pp., 'On some grammatical peculiarities of the Tuna language (New Britain)', notes + 11 typed pp. + English translation of 7 typed pp. (translated by his nephew in New York), 'On Father Schebesta's manuscript about the Sepa language', ~20pp., and 'On people of Oceania'.
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Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 2, pp.647-839
MS 1056-02e
1897-1938
Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 2, pp.647-839. Papers compiled by linguist Otto Dempwolff (1871-1938). Unless otherwise stated items are hand written in pencil in the old German (‘Stütterlin’) system of writing on A4 paper. Includes pp.1-193 of 'Red folder': Tahiti texts (files 1, 2a1, 2a2), informant: Christian Schacht (who lived in Tahiti from 1886 to 1916), vol. XXIII of Dempwolff's papers: 2a1 ~200pp., texts with translation, partly typed: 1 ~100pp., 2a2 about the same.
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Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 2, pp.840-1069
MS 1056-02f
1897-1938
Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 2, pp.840-1069. Papers compiled by linguist Otto Dempwolff (1871-1938). Unless otherwise stated items are hand written in pencil in the old German (‘Stütterlin’) system of writing on A4 paper.
Includes pp.194-428 of 'Red folder': Tahiti texts (files 1, 2a1, 2a2), informant: Christian Schacht (who lived in Tahiti from 1886 to 1916), vol. XXIII of Dempwolff's papers: 2a1 ~200pp., texts with translation, partly typed: 1 ~100pp., 2a2 about the same.
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Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 2, pp.1070-1298
MS 1056-02g
1897-1938
Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 2, pp.1070-1298. Papers compiled by linguist Otto Dempwolff (1871-1938). Unless otherwise stated items are hand written in pencil in the old German (‘Stütterlin’) system of writing on A4 paper. Includes 'Blue folder': Introduction into the Melanesian language of Tuna, 40pp. + 25 typed pp. Also part of 'Blue folder' at end of reel 2: Notes (5 typed pp.) on [and] "A short grammar of Graged" (134pp.).
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Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 2, pp.1299-1394
MS 1056-02h
1897-1938
Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 2, pp.1299-1394. Papers compiled by linguist Otto Dempwolff (1871-1938). Unless otherwise stated items are hand written in pencil in the old German (‘Stütterlin’) system of writing on A4 paper. Includes part of 'Blue folder': 'Summary of the Graged language, March 1926', 70 typed pp.; 'Interrogative pronouns in Kãte', 21 typed pp..
The 'Introduction to Ngadju Dajak', 190pp. from this folder is on PMB MS 1056 item 03a.
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Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 3, pp.1-182
MS 1056-03a
1897-1938
Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 3, pp.1-182. Papers compiled by linguist Otto Dempwolff (1871-1938). Unless otherwise stated items are hand written in pencil in the old German (‘Stütterlin’) system of writing on A4 paper. This record includes item listed as part of reel 3, final 'Blue folder', ''Introduction to Ngadju Dajak', 190pp.
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Papers regarding Pacific linguisitics, Reel 3, pp.183-451
MS 1056-03b
1897-1938
Papers regarding Pacific linguisitics, Reel 3, pp.183-451. Papers compiled by linguist Otto Dempwolff (1871-1938). Unless otherwise stated items are hand written in pencil in the old German (‘Stütterlin’) system of writing on A4 paper. Blue folder, 'Introduction to Tahitian (Tahiti vol.2)', 267pp.
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Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 3, pp.452-627
MS 1056-03c
1897-1938
Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 3, pp.452-627. Papers compiled by linguist Otto Dempwolff (1871-1938). Unless otherwise stated items are hand written in pencil in the old German (‘Stütterlin’) system of writing on A4 paper. Includes: Reel 3, 'Violet folder', Introduction to Tahitian, 75 typed pp.; and 'Red folder', Introduction to the ethnographic texts in Tahitian by Christian Schacht of Hamburg, 1 typed pp., Notes on Tahiti from various published sources., and Texts in Tahitian, ~50 typed pp.
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Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 3, pp.628-834
MS 1056-03d
1897-1938
Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 3, pp.628-834. Papers compiled by linguist Otto Dempwolff (1871-1938). Unless otherwise stated items are hand written in pencil in the old German (‘Stütterlin’) system of writing on A4 paper. Includes part of reel 3, 'Red folder', pp Texts in Tahitian, ~50 typed pages. Also: 'Red folder', 'Introduction to Tagalog', carbon copy 108 typed pp., vol. XVII of Dempwolff's papers.
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Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 3, pp.835-1002
MS 1056-03e
1897-1938
Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 3, pp.835-1002. Papers compiled by linguist Otto Dempwolff (1871-1938). Unless otherwise stated items are hand written in pencil in the old German (‘Stütterlin’) system of writing on A4 paper.
Reel 3, 'Red folder', Tagalog grammar, 160 pp. (informant: Cecilio Lopez).
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Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 3, pp.1003-1149
MS 1056-03f
1897-1938
Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 3, pp.1003-1149. Papers compiled by linguist Otto Dempwolff (1871-1938). Unless otherwise stated items are hand written in pencil in the old German (‘Stütterlin’) system of writing on A4 paper. Includes pp.1-147 of 'Red folder', 'Graged', carbon copy 150 typed pp., vol. LXI of Dempwolff's papers.
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Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 3, pp.1150-1349
MS 1056-03g
1897-1938
Papers regarding Pacific linguistics, Reel 3, pp.1150-1349. Papers compiled by linguist Otto Dempwolff (1871-1938). Unless otherwise stated items are hand written in pencil in the old German (‘Stütterlin’) system of writing on A4 paper. Includes: part of 'Red folder', 'Graged', carbon copy 150 typed pp., vol. LXI of Dempwolff's papers; 'Preparatory mss. Tagalog and Tuna., Comments on Kähler's Enggano grammar, ~20pp.; and A5 booklets, 3 exercise books on a language in the Bismarck Archipelago (near Rabaul), pages numbered 194-280.
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PMB MS 1056 Finding Aid
MS 1056-00
1897-1938
2 page digital file
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