Catherine Callaghan

Catherine "Cathy" Callaghan (1931 – 2019) was Professor Emerita in the Department of Linguistics at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.[1]

Catherine Callaghan
Born1931
Died2019
NationalityAmerican
OccupationLinguist
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley (1963)
Doctoral advisorMary Haas
Academic work
Main interestsPenutian languages, Utian languages

She received a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1963. Her doctoral dissertation was a grammar of Lake Miwok,[2] written under the supervision of Mary Haas. She then started work on the Lake Miwok Dictionary, which was published in 1965.[3] She was appointed Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Ohio State University in 1965 and remained there until her retirement.[4][5]

Throughout her career Callaghan's research focused on the Penutian languages of California, especially connections between Yokuts and Miwok. She appeared briefly in the documentary, "How Dead do I Look?"[6] which was filmed in 2014. Her papers on Miwok Languages are collected at the California Language Archive.[7]

In 1973, Callaghan co-founded Feminists for Life, an anti-abortion feminist non-profit.[8]

Callaghan died on March 16, 2019 in Columbus, Ohio.[9]

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
  1. "Catherine Callaghan". Department of Linguistics. 2013-05-15. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
  2. "A grammar of the Lake Miwok language | Linguistics". lx.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
  3. "All Miwok Language Symposium". News from Native California. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
  4. "History of the OSU Linguistics Department".
  5. "Catherine Callaghan". Department of Linguistics. 2013-05-15. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
  6. "Cathy Callaghan in Documentary". Department of Linguistics. 2014-08-19. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
  7. "California Language Archive". cla.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
  8. Meehan, Mary (Summer 2008). "Feminists for Life on Campus". Human Life Review. The Human Life Foundation. Archived from the original on 2010-09-19. Retrieved Sep 11, 2010.
  9. "We Remember FFL Co-founder Cathy Callaghan". Feminists for Life. 2019.
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