Linguistics at Manitoba: H.C. Wolfart


H.C. Wolfart
	[B.A. equiv.] 1964, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau M.A. 1966, Yale University M.A. 1967, Cornell University M.Phil. 1967, Ph.D. 1969, Yale University F.R.S.C. 1995 Killam Research Fellow 1996 Text-based analysis, linguistic variability; history of linguistics; verbal art, oral literature; Cree, Algonquian, Latin, Low Alemannic.

	Contact: Linguistics Department University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 5V5	telephone (204) 474-9472 fax (204) 474-7671 e-mail via: Lingdpt@cc.umanitoba.ca umanitoba.ca/linguistics

	Publications: Books / Monographs Edited Works	Articles / Chapters Lectures / Conference Papers

Books / Monographs (selected)

Plains Cree: A Grammatical Study.: American Philosophical Society, Transactions, n.s., vol. 63, pt. 5. Philadelphia, 1973.; [facsimile reprint, [Saskatoon: Saskatchewan Indian Cultural College, ca. 1982]]
Computer-assisted Linguistic Analysis [H.C. Wolfart & F. Pardo].: University of Manitoba Anthropology Papers 6, 1973.
Meet Cree: A Guide to the Cree Language [H.C. Wolfart & J.F. Carroll].: New and completely revised edition. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press / Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 1981.; [originally published as Meet Cree: A Practical Guide to the Cree Language, Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1973]
Bibliography of Algonquian Linguistics [D.H. Pentland & H.C. Wolfart].: Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1982.
pisiskiwak kâ-pîkiskwêcik / Talking Animals.: Told by L. Beardy. Edited and translated by H.C. Wolfart.; Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics, Memoir 5, 1988.
kôhkominawak otâcimowiniwâwa / Our Grandmothers' Lives, as Told in Their Own Words. Told by Glecia Bear et al.: Edited and translated by F. Ahenakew & H.C. Wolfart.; Saskatoon: Fifth House Publishers, 1992.; [facsimile reprint, with new preface: Canadian Plains Reprint Series, Canadian Plains Research Centre, University of Regina, 1998]; [chapter 5 also issued separately, in a fully expanded orthography: wanisinwak iskwêsisak: awâsisasinahikanis / Two Little; Girls Lost in the Bush: A Cree Story for Children, Told by Nêhiyaw / Glecia Bear. Illustrated by J. Whitehead.; Saskatoon: Fifth House Publishers, 1991]
kinêhiyâwiwininaw nêhiyawêwin / The Cree Language is Our Identity: The La Ronge Lectures of Sarah Whitecalf.: Edited, translated and with a glossary by H.C. Wolfart & F. Ahenakew. Publications of the Algonquian Text Society /; Collection de la Société d’édition de textes algonquiens. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1993.
kwayask ê-kî-pê-kiskinowâpahtihicik / Their Example Showed Me the Way: A Cree Woman's Life Shaped by Two Cultures.: Told by Emma Minde. Edited, translated and with a glossary by F. Ahenakew & H.C. Wolfart.; Edmonton, University of Alberta Press, 1997. [Alberta Book Award 1998: "Scholarly Title of the Year"]
ana kâ-pimwêwêhahk okakêskihkêmowina / The Counselling Speeches of Jim Kâ-Nîpitêhtêw.: Edited, translated and with a glossary by F. Ahenakew & H.C. Wolfart.; Publications of the Algonquian Text Society / Collection de la Société d’édition de textes algonquiens.; Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1998.
The Student's Dictionary of Literary Plains Cree, Based on Contemporary Texts: [H.C. Wolfart & F. Ahenakew]. Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics, Memoir 15, 1998.
âh-âyîtaw isi ê-kî-kiskêyihtahkik maskihkiy / They Knew Both Sides of Medicine: Cree Tales of Curing and Cursing Told by Alice Ahenakew.: Edited, translated and with a glossary by H.C. Wolfart & Freda Ahenakew. Publications of the Algonquian Text Society /; Collection de la Société d'édition de textes algonquiens. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2000.

Edited Works

Essays in Algonquian Bibliography in Honour of V.M. Dechene. Edited by H.C. Wolfart.: Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics, Memoir 1, 1984.
Linguistic Studies Presented to John L. Finlay. Edited by H.C. Wolfart.: Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics, Memoir 8, 1991.
Papers of the Thirty-third Algonquian Conference [Berkeley, California]. Edited by H.C. Wolfart.: Winnipeg: University of Manitoba, 2002.
Papers of the Thirty-fourth Algonquian Conference [Kingston, Ontario]. Edited by H.C. Wolfart.: Winnipeg: University of Manitoba, 2003.
Papers of the Thirty-fifth Algonquian Conference [London, Ontario]. Edited by H.C. Wolfart.: Winnipeg: University of Manitoba, 2004.
Papers of the Thirty-sixth Algonquian Conference [Madison, Wisconsin]. Edited by H.C. Wolfart.: Winnipeg: University of Manitoba, 2005.
Actes du Trente-septième Congrès des Algonquinistes [Gatineau, Québec]. Sous la direction de H.C. Wolfart.: Winnipeg: Université du Manitoba, 2006.
Papers of the Thirty-eighth Algonquian Conference [Vancouver, British Columbia]. Edited by H.C. Wolfart.: Winnipeg: University of Manitoba, 2007.

Articles / Chapters

Notes on the early history of American Indian linguistics.: Folia Linguistica 1:153-171, 1967.
The study of Cree in the context of Algonquian linguistics.: Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota, Proceedings, 9:23-29, 1969.
Plains Cree internal syntax and the problem of noun incorporation.: 38. Internationaler Amerikanisten-Kongress [Stuttgart, 1968], Verhandlungen, 3:511-518. Stuttgart, 1971.
Language boundaries: A case study.: Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota, Proceedings, 12:9-13, 1972.
The current state of Cree language studies.: Western Canadian Journal of Anthropology 3.4:37-55, 1973.
[review of Cree pedagogical materials], 1969-1972.: International Journal of American Linguistics 39:272, 1973.
Boundary maintenance in Algonquian: A linguistic study of Island Lake, Manitoba.: American Anthropologist 75:1305-1323, 1973.
[review of] The university and the Canadian North, by W.O. Kupsch and M. Caillol, 1973.: International Journal of American Linguistics 40:168, 1974.
[review of] A metalanguage for systematic research on human communication via natural language, by H.B. Pepinsky, 1974.: Computers and the Humanities 9:202-203, 1975.
More keys into the language of America.: Lingua 40:79-88, 1976.
The position of the Severn dialects in Ojibwa.: Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota, Proceedings, 16/17:47-49 (1976-1977), 1976.
[review of] Papers of the Sixth Algonquian Conference, 1974, ed. by W. Cowan, 1975.: Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 14:441-443, 1977.
[review of] Studies in southeastern Indian languages, ed. by J.M. Crawford, 1975.: Linguistics 200:89-95, 1977.
Another Algonquian contribution to historical linguistics: Siebert's Powhatan.: International Journal of American Linguistics 43:162-165, 1977.
Aspects of Cree interference in Island Lake Ojibwa [H.C. Wolfart & S.M. Shrofel].: W. Cowan, réd., Actes du Huitième Congrès des Algonquinistes [Montréal, 1976], 156-167. Ottawa: Carleton University, 1977.
Les paradigmes verbaux ojibwa et la position du dialecte de Severn.: W. Cowan, réd., Actes du Huitième Congrès des Algonquinistes [Montréal, 1976]188-206. Ottawa: Carleton University, 1977.
Proto-Algonquian ?c.: International Journal of American Linguistics 44:232-235, 1978.
How many obviatives: Sense and reference in a Cree verb paradigm.: E.-D. Cook & J.D. Kaye, eds., Linguistic studies of native Canada, 255-272. Lisse: Peter de Ridder Press / Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1978.
Analytic formulation and verification of morphophonological rules.: 12. Internationaler Linguisten-Kongress [Wien, 1977], Akten, 601-605. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, 1978.
Le rôle de l'ordinateur dans l’édition critique des textes cris.: Amérindia 4:9-21, 1979.
An experiment in automatic inflexional analysis: Latin.: D.E. Ager, F.E. Knowles & J.M. Smith, eds., Advances in Computer-aided Literary and Linguistic Research, 73-93. Birmingham: University of Aston Press, 1979.
Computer-aided philology and algorithmic linguistics: A case study [H.C. Wolfart & F. Pardo].: International Journal of American Linguistics 45:107-122, 1979.
The "Bowrey" dictionary and Henry Kelsey [H.C. Wolfart & D.H. Pentland].: W. Cowan, ed., Papers of the Tenth Algonquian Conference [Fredericton, New Brunswick, 1978], 37-42. Ottawa: Carleton University, 1979.
Diversified access in lexicography.: Exeter Linguistic Studies 4:143-153, 1979.
Marginalia aquilonia.: Algonquian Linguistics 5:7-13, 1979.
Lexical documentation.: Lingua 49:137-152, 1979.
[review of] Psycholinguistik der Aphasie, by H.J. Klatt, 1978.: Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne 21:204-205, 1980.
Marked terms for marginal kin.: W. Cowan, ed., Papers of the Eleventh Algonquian Conference [Ottawa, 1979], 283-293. Ottawa: Carleton University, 1980.
Idéologie et Observation grammaticales au début de l'époque moderne.: L. Bon & M.Y. Suleiman, eds., 7th International Colloquium on Functional Linguistics, Proceedings, 197-201. St Andrews: Department of Linguistics, University of St Andrews, 1981.
The Word-and-Paradigm model and linguistic change: The verbal system of Ojibwa.: J.P. Maher et al., eds., Papers from the Third International Conference on Historical Linguistics [Hamburg, 1977], 397-403. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1982.
Historical linguistics and metaphilology.: A. Ahlqvist, ed., Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics [Galway, 1981], 394-403. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1982.
Empirische Untersuchungen zur mündlichen Literatur-Überlieferung.: E. Lämmert, ed., Erzählforschung, 74-97. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1982.
Die "Westallgäuer Mundart" des Anton Gruber.: W. Haas & A. Näf, eds., Wortschatzprobleme im Alemannischen, 165-200. Studia Friburgensia 7. Fribourg: Editions Universitaires, 1983.
Productive reduplication in Plains Cree [F. Ahenakew & H.C. Wolfart].: W. Cowan, réd., Actes du Quatorzième Congrès des Algonquinistes [Québec, 1982], 369-377. Ottawa: Carleton University, 1983.
Notes on the Cree texts in Petitot's 'Traditions indiennes du Canada Nord-Ouest'.: H.C. Wolfart, ed., Essays in Algonquian Bibliography in Honour of V.M. Dechene, 47-78. Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics, Memoir 1, 1984.
Joseph Howse.: F.G. Halpenny, ed., Dictionary of Canadian Biography, 8:411-414. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985.; [translated in F.G. Halpenny, réd., Dictionnaire biographique du Canada, 8:456-460, Québec: Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 1985]
Taboo and taste in literary translation.: W. Cowan, réd., Actes du Dix-septième Congrès des Algonquinistes [Montréal, 1985], 377-394. Ottawa: Carleton University, 1986.
On the provenance of the Amis gloss.: Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics 12:12-13, 1987.
Ojibwa texts.: International Journal of American Linguistics 53:103-111, 1987.
Preparing a medical glossary [H.C. Wolfart & F. Ahenakew].: F. Ahenakew & S. Fredeen, eds., Our Languages, Our Survival: Proceedings of the Seventh Native American Languages Issues Institute, 207-225. Saskatoon: Saskatchewan Indian Languages Institute, 1987.
Introduction [F. Ahenakew & H.C. Wolfart].: F. Ahenakew, ed., A Preliminary Check-list of Plains Cree Medical Terms, vii-xiii. Saskatoon: Saskatchewan Indian Languages Institute, 1987.
The story-tellers and their stories [H.C. Wolfart & F. Ahenakew].: F. Ahenakew, ed., wâskahikaniwiyiniw-âcimowina / Stories of the House People, Told by Peter Vandall and Joe Douquette, x-xiv. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1987.
Notes on the orthography and the glossary [H.C. Wolfart & F. Ahenakew].: F. Ahenakew, ed., wâskahikaniwiyiniw-âcimowina / Stories of the House People, Told by Peter Vandall and Joe Douquette, 113-125. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1987.
The structure of body-part verbs as illustrated in a Cree medical glossary [H.C. Wolfart & F. Ahenakew].: Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics 12:32-41, 1987.
The beginnings of Algonquian lexicography.: American Philosophical Society, Proceedings, 132:119-127, 1988.
Lahontan's bestseller.: Historiographia Linguistica 16:1-24, 1989.
Prosodische Grenzsignale im Plains Cree.: Folia Linguistica 23:327-334, 1989.
Cree midwifery: Linguistic and literary observations.: W. Cowan, réd., Actes du Vingtième Congrès des Algonquinistes [Hull, Québec, 1988], 326-342. Ottawa: Carleton University, 1989.
The supplement to Petitot’s Dieu-Lunaire text.: International Journal of American Linguistics 56:580-586, 1990.
1001 Nights: The Orient and the Far Northwest.: W. Cowan, ed., Papers of the Twenty-first Algonquian Conference [St John's, Newfoundland. 1989]. 370-395. Ottawa: Carleton University, 1990.
John Beaverbone's story as retold by Joseph Tootoosis [edited and translated by F. Ahenakew & H.C. Wolfart].: H.C. Wolfart, ed., Linguistic Studies Presented to John L. Finlay, 1-12. Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics, Memoir 8, 1991.
Passives with and without agents.: H.C. Wolfart, ed., Linguistic Studies Presented to John L. Finlay, 171-190. Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics, Memoir 8, 1991.
Slave texts of the Dene Wodih Society.: Studies in American Indian Literatures, ser. 2, 3.3:46-52, 1991.
The reality of Cree morpheme-boundary rules [F. Ahenakew & H.C. Wolfart].: Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics 16:27-32, 1991.
The scope of paternity tests in Cree myths.: Man, n.s., 26:737-740, 1991.
Introduction to the texts; Notes.: F. Ahenakew & H.C. Wolfart, eds., kôhkominawak otâcimowiniwâwa / Our Grandmothers' Lives, as Told in Their Own Words, 17-37; 351-408. Saskatoon: Fifth House Publishers, 1992.; [facsimile reprint: Canadian Plains Reprint Series, Canadian Plains Research Centre, University of Regina, 1998]
Sentences [C. Reinholtz & H.C. Wolfart].: H.C. Wolfart, Sketch of Cree, an Algonquian language. Ives Goddard, ed., Languages, 391-398. William C. Sturtevant, gen. ed., Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 17. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1996.
Sketch of Cree, an Algonquian language.: Ives Goddard, ed., Languages, 390-439. William C. Sturtevant, gen. ed., Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 17. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1996.
The education of a Cree woman.: F. Ahenakew & H.C. Wolfart, eds., kwayask ê-kî-pê-kiskinowâpahtihicik / Their Example Showed Me the Way: A Cree Woman's Life Shaped by Two Cultures, ix-xliv. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1997.
Commentary and notes.: F. Ahenakew & H.C. Wolfart, eds., ana kâ-pimwêwêhahk okakêskihkêmowina / The Counselling Speeches of Jim Kâ-Nîpitêhtêw, 139-237. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1998.
Introduction.: H.C. Wolfart & F. Ahenakew, The Student's Dictionary of Literary Plains Cree, Based on Contemporary Texts, v-xiii. Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics, Memoir 15, 1998.
Authenticity and aggiornamento in spoken texts and their critical edition.: L.P. Valentine & R. Darnell, eds., Theorizing the Americanist Tradition, 121-149. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.
A trilingual ghost?: Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics 24:27-28, 1999.
Case histories of living practice.: H.C. Wolfart & F. Ahenakew, eds., âh-âyîtaw isi ê-kî-kiskêyihtahkik maskihkiy / They Knew Both Sides of Medicine: Cree Tales of Curing and Cursing Told by Alice Ahenakew, 1-29. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2000.
Commentary and notes.: H.C. Wolfart & F. Ahenakew, eds., âh-âyîtaw isi ê-kî-kiskêyihtahkik maskihkiy / They Knew Both Sides of Medicine: Cree Tales of Curing and Cursing Told by Alice Ahenakew, 141-190. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2000.
The syntax of emphatic ani in Eastern Swampy Cree and in Plains Cree: C. Reinholtz & H.C. Wolfart,; J. Nichols, réd., Actes du Trente-deuxième Congrès des Algonquinistes [Montréal, Québec, 2000], 427-454. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba, 2001.
Cree literature.: W.H. New, ed., Encyclopedia of literature in Canada, 243-247. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.
William Cowan in memoriam.: H.C. Wolfart, ed., Papers of the Thirty-third Algonquian Conference [Berkeley, California, 2001], v-vi. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba, 2002.
[A colonial government proclamation in Ojibwe, 1866]: H.C. Wolfart, ed., Papers of the Thirty-fourth Algonquian Conference [Kingston, Ontario, 2002], ix-x. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba, 2003.
Cree.: Keith Brown, ed., The encyclopedia of language and linguistics, 2nd ed., vol. 3, pp. 273-278. Oxford: Elsevier, 2006.

Lectures / Conference Papers (selected)

Negation and volition.: Linguistics Colloquium, University of Manitoba, 1996.
On syntax and style in Cree noun incorporation.: The Belcourt Lecture, University of Manitoba, 1997.
Towards a syntax of negation in Plains Cree [R.-M. Déchaine & H.C. Wolfart].: Thirtieth Algonquian Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998.
Alternative forms of government and syntactic salience.: Fourth Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the
Americas, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1999.
La négation comme indice de structure syntaxique dans le cris des plains [R.-M. Déchaine & H.C. Wolfart].: Trente-deuxième Congrès des Algonquinistes, Montréal, 2000.
Indeterminate number.: Linguistics Colloquium, University of Manitoba, 2002.
Colonial islands and the integration of negation.: Contacts de langues et minorisation: Systèmes, pratiques et représentations, Colloque international, Université de Neuchâtel & Institut Universitaire Kurt Bösch, Sion (Valais), 2003.
Terms of treaty: The land.: Plenary Lecture, Thirty-fifth Algonquian Conference, University of Western Ontario, London, 2003.
Number agreement and constituency in comitative and associative constructions.: Ninth Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas, University of Victoria, 2004.
Terms of treaty: The language barrier and the courts.: Joint Plenary Lecture, Canadian Linguistic Assocation & Canadian Association for Applied Linguistics, Winnipeg, 2004.
On the topic of conditionals in Cree.: [Rose-Marie Déchaine & H.C. Wolfart]; Trente-septième Congrès des Algonquinistes, Gatineau, Québec, 2005.
Open conditionals in Plains Cree.: [Leszek Barczak, Rose-Marie Déchaine & H.C. Wolfart]; Eleventh Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas, University of British Columbia, 2006.
Terms of treaty: Unacknowledged asymmetries in the terms of exchange.: Thirty-eighth Algonquian Conference, University of British of Columbia, 2006.
Choice and balance in michif negation.: Thirty-ninth Algonquian Conference, York University, 2007.

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