Catherine "Cathy" Callaghan (October 31, 1931 – March 16, 2019) was Professor Emerita in the Department of Linguistics at the

Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ ...

in Columbus, Ohio. She received a Ph.D. in linguistics from the

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in 1963. Her doctoral dissertation was a grammar of Lake Miwok, written under the supervision of

Mary Haas Mary Rosamond Haas (January 23, 1910 – May 17, 1996) was an American linguist who specialized in North American Indian languages, Thai, and historical linguistics. She served as president of the Linguistic Society of America. She was elected ...

. She then started work on the Lake Miwok Dictionary, which was published in 1965. She was appointed Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Ohio State University in 1965 and remained there until her retirement. She was named a Fellow of the

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in 1969. Throughout her career Callaghan's research focused on the

Penutian languages Penutian is a proposed grouping of language families that includes many Native American languages of western North America, predominantly spoken at one time in British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and California. The existence of a Penutian st ...

of California, especially connections between

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and

Miwok The Miwok (also spelled Miwuk, Mi-Wuk, or Me-Wuk) are members of four linguistically related Native American groups indigenous to what is now Northern California, who traditionally spoke one of the Miwok languages in the Utian family. The word ' ...

. She appeared briefly in the documentary, ''How Dead do I Look?'', which was filmed in 2014. Her papers on Miwok Languages are collected at the California Language Archive. In 1973, Callaghan co-founded Feminists for Life, an

anti-abortion feminist Anti-abortion feminism or pro-life feminism is the opposition to abortion by some feminists. Anti-abortion feminists may believe that the principles behind women's rights also call them to oppose abortion on right to life grounds and that abortio ...

non-profit. Callaghan died on March 16, 2019 in Columbus, Ohio.

Key publications

* Callaghan, Catherine A. 1965. ''Lake Miwok Dictionary''. University of California Press. * Callaghan, Catherine A. 1970. ''Bodega Miwok Dictionary''. Publications in Linguistics 60. University of California Press. * Callaghan, Catherine A. 1984. ''Plains Miwok Dictionary''. Publications in Linguistics 105. University of California Press. * Callaghan, Catherine A. 1987. ''Northern Sierra Miwok Dictionary''. Publications in Linguistics 110. University of California Press. * Callaghan, Catherine A. 2012. ''Proto-Utian Grammar and Dictionary with notes on Yokuts''. Trends in Linguistics Documentation 31. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

References

External links

Catherine A. Callahan Papers on Miwok Languages
{{DEFAULTSORT:Callaghan, Catherine 1931 births 2019 deaths Women linguists Ohio State University faculty UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni Paleolinguists Linguists of Penutian languages Linguists of Yokutsan languages Linguists of Utian languages American anti-abortion activists American feminists Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science