tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Dec 30 10:37:12 1994
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Re: Origins of Klingon
- From: "jim bisso" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Origins of Klingon
- Date: Fri, 30 Dec 94 10:36:33 PST
>>I'm decloaking and emerging from Lurker status for a few words on this
>>topic. A few months ago, while searching for influences on Klingon, I took
>>a look at Okrand's 1977 Ph.D. dissertation in the library here at U. C.
>>Berkeley (his alma mater). The dissertation is a grammar of Mutsun, an
>>extinct Native American language once spoken in the vicinity of Mission San
>>Juan Bautista in California. Mutsun clearly did not serve as a basis for
>>Klingon; in fact, Mutsun is very much *unlike* Klingon.
>>
>Very interesting!
>
>Okay I have never asked to get someone Ph.D. dissertation (or a copy thereof)
>what is the best way of getting one? THis one in particular.
About a month back, I also looked at Okrand's dissertation. There are four or
possibly five copies: one in the Linguistics Dept library, one in the main
library at UCB, one in the NRLF (a storage facility which serves the libraries
for UCB, UCSF, UCSC, and UCD), one at the SRLF (southern version of the NRLF),
and one at UCSC. The copy I looked at (in the NRLF) could not be checked out.
You might try an interlibrary loan from one of the other spots.
I've included the information from melvyl (an online catalog for the UC
system):
5. DISSERTATION
Author: Okrand, Marc.
Title: Mutsun grammar / by Marc Okrand. 1977.
Description: viii, 349 leaves ; 28 cm.
Notes: Thesis (Ph. D. in Linguistics)--University of California,
Berkeley, June 1977.
Bibliography: leaves 347-349.
Call numbers: NRLF C 2 940 238 Type EXP NRLF for loan details.
7. DISSERTATION
Author: Okrand, Marc, 1948-
Title: Mutsun grammar / by Marc Okrand. 1977.
Description: viii, 350 leaves.
Notes: Microfilm of typescript. Ann Arbor : University Microfilms
International, 1977. -- 1 reel ; 35 mm.
Thesis--University of California, Berkeley.
Bibliography: leaves 347-350.
Subjects: Mutsun language -- Grammar.
Indians of North America -- California -- Languages.
Call numbers: SRLF M 0000501023 Library has: 1977 Type EXP SRLF for
loan details.
8. DISSERTATION
Author: Okrand, Marc, 1948-
Title: Mutsun grammar / by Marc Okrand. 1977.
Description: viii, 350 leaves
Notes: Photocopy. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms
International, 1983. -- 21 cm.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1977.
Bibliography: leaves 347-350.
Subjects: Mutsun language -- Grammar.
Call numbers: UCSD Central PM1977 .O47 1977a
It was my impression that Klingon did not owe much to Mutsun either, but it
*was* interesting to look at another sample of Okrand's writing.
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