Bibliography of Materials on the
Tlingit Language
Boas, Franz (1917)
Grammatical Notes on the Language of the Tlingit Indians. University of Pennsylvania Museum Anthropological Publications.
The first adequate description of Tlingit phonology, together with a description of much of the verbal morphology.

Dauenhauer, Richard (1974)
Text and Context of Tlingit Oral Tradition. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Dauenhauer, Nora Marks & Richard Dauenhauer (1987)
Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature, Volume 1: Haa shuk´, our ancestors: Tlingit oral narratives. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Dauenhauer, Nora Marks & Richard Dauenhauer (1990)
Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature, Volume 2: Haa tuwunáaagu yís, for healing our spirit: Tlingit oratory. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Dauenhauer, Nora Marks & Richard Dauenhauer (1991)
Beginning Tlingit. Juneau, Alaska: Sealaska Heritage Foundation Press. Third edition.

Dauenhauer, Nora Marks & Richard Dauenhauer (1994)
Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature, Volume 3: Haa Kusteyi/Our Culture: Tlingit Life Stories. Seattle: University of Washington Press and Sealaska Foundation.

Dauenhauer, Nora Marks & Richard Dauenhauer (1995)
"A Tlingit Ceremonial Speech by Willie Marks," in Michael Dürr, Egon Renner, and Wolfgang Oleschinsy (eds.) Language and Culture in Native North America: Essays in Honor of Heinz-Jürgen Pinnow. (Munich: LINCOM) pp. 239-44.

Dryer, Matthew (1985
"Tlingit: An Object-initial Language?" Canadian Journal of Linguistics 30.1-13.

Durlach, T.M. (1928)
"The relationship systems of the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian," Proceedings of the American Ethnological Society 11.

Goddard, Pliny Earle (1920)
"Has Tlingit a Genetic Relationship to Athapascan?" International Journal of American Linguistics 1.266-279.

Hamp, Eric P. (1979)
"Tongass Tlingit and Na-Dene," Berkeley Linguistics Society 5.460-463.

Hymes, Dell (1995)
"Na-Dene Ethnopoetics: A Preliminary Report: Haida and Tlingit," in Michael Dürr, Egon Renner, and Wolfgang Oleschinsy (eds.) Language and Culture in Native North America: Essays in Honor of Heinz-Jürgen Pinnow. (Munich: LINCOM) pp. 265-311.

Krauss, Michael E. (1968)
"Noun-classification systems in Athapaskan, Eyak, Tlingit, and Haida verbs," International Journal of American Linguistics 34.194-203.

Krauss, Michael E. (1969)
"On the classification in the Athapascan, Eyak, and Tlingit verb." Supplement to International Journal of American Linguistics 35.4.49-83.

Krauss, Michael E. and Jane McGary (1980)
Alaska Native Languages, a Bibliographical Catalogue. Part I: Indian Languages. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center.

Leer, Jeff (1990)
"Tlingit: a Portmanteau Language Family?" in Philip Baldi (ed.) Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter) pp. 73-98.

Leer, Jeff (1991)
The Schetic Categories of the Tlingit Verb. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago.

Leer, Jeff, Hitch, Doug, and John Ritter (2001)
Interior Tlingit Noun Dictionary: The Dialects Spoken by Tlingit Elders of Carcross and Teslin, Yukon, and Atlin, British Columbia. Whitehorse: Yukon Native Language Centre. ISBN 1-55242-227-5.

Maddieson, Ian, Caroline L. Smith, and Nicola Bessell (2001)
"Aspects of the Phonetics of Tlingit," Anthropological Linguistics 43.2.135-176.

Miller, Ray (1931)
"A Strobophotographic Analysis of a Tlingit Indian's Speech," International Journal of American Linguistics 6.47-68.

Naish, Constance M. (1966)
A Syntactic Study of Tlingit. Unpublished M.A. thesis, School of Oriental and African Languages, University of London.

Naish, Constance M., Story, Gillian L., Davis, Henry and Jeff Leer (1976)
Tlingit Noun Dictionary. Fairbanks: Sheldon Jackson College.

Nyman, Elizabeth and Jeff Leer (1993)
Gágiwdu:àt: Brought Forth to Reconfirm. The Legacy of a Taku River Tlingit Clan. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center.

Pinnow, Heinz-Jürgen (1962)
"Two Problems of the Historical Phonology of the Na-Dene Languages," International Journal of American Linguistics 28.162-6.

Pinnow, Heinz-Jürgen (1964)
"On The Historical Position of Tlingit," International Journal of American Linguistics 30.155-64.

Pinnow, Heinz-Jürgen (1966)
Grundzüge einer historischen Lautlehre des Tlingit. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.

Pinnow, Heinz-Jürgen (1968)
"Sprachhistorische Studien zur Verbstammvariation im Tlingit," Orbis 17.509-31.

Pinnow, Heinz-Jürgen (1986)
Säugertiernamen des Haida und Tlingit: Materialen zu ihrer historischen Erforschung. Abhandlungen der Völkerkundlichen Arbeitsgemeinschaft Letterkunde. Nortof: Völkerkundlichen Arbeitsgemeinschaft. 50.

Pinnow, Heinz-Jürgen (1988)
Verwandtschafts- und andere Personenbezeichnungen im Tlingit und Haida: Versuch ihrer sprachhistorischen Deutung. Abhandlungen der Völkerkundlichen Arbeitsgemeinschaft Letterkunde. Nortof: Völkerkundlichen Arbeitsgemeinschaft. 62.

Story, Gillian L. (1966)
A Morphological Study of Tlingit. Unpublished M.A. thesis, School of Oriental and African Languages, University of London.

Story, Gillian L. and Constance M. Naish (1973)
Tlingit Verb Dictionary. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center.

Story, Gillian (1995)
"An Analyzed Tlingit Procedural Text," in Michael Dürr, Egon Renner, and Wolfgang Oleschinsy (eds.) Language and Culture in Native North America: Essays in Honor of Heinz-Jürgen Pinnow. (Munich: LINCOM) pp. 312-331.

Swanton, John (1909)
Tlingit Myths and Texts. Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 39. Reprinted 1970 by Johnson at New York.

Swanton, John (1911)
"Tlingit," Handbook of American Indian Languages 1.159-204.
A preliminary grammar sketch.

Velten, Henry (1939)
"Two Southern Tlingit Tales," International Journal of American Linguistics 5.65-74.

Velten, Henry (1944)
"Three Tlingit Stories," International Journal of American Linguistics 10.168-180.

Williams, Frank, Emma Williams and Jeff Leer (1978)
Tongass Texts. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center.

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