Abstract

0. An excellent description of the phonology and morphology of Washo, a Hokan language spoken in Northern California and Nevada in the vicinity of Lake Tahoe, has recently become available: the doctoral dissertation of William H. Jacobsen, Jr., A grammar of the Washo language, University of California, Berkeley, 1964 (University Microfilms, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan, nr. 64-13, 024). The following remarks are based almost exclusively on this voluminous and comprehensive work; in addition, only field notes of a former student of mine, Mrs. Betty R. Berutti, and a very limited amount of transcriptions of my own have been used.

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