Obituary
William J. Samarin
7 February, 1926 – 16 January, 2020
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Samarin, William J.
1952a “
A tentative analysis of the pluralization of Kisi nouns”. Kroeber
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1952b “
Intonation in tone languages”.
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1962 “Une lingua franca africaine”. Colloque sur le multilinguisme, 257–265. Brazzaville: Commission de Coopération. [Translated by
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1965 Perspective on African ideophones,
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1966b The Gbeya language: grammar, texts, and vocabularies. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.
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1968a The linguisticality of glossolalia.
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1968b Lingua francas of the world.
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1971b Survey of Bantu ideophones.
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Samarin, William J.
1972 Tongues of men and angels: The Religious Language of Pentecostalism. New York: Macmillan.
Samarin, William J.
1973 “
Sociolinguistics and religion: report of interest-group session”.
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Samarin, William J.
(ed.) 1976 Language in religious practice. Rowley, MA: Newbury House.
Samarin, William J.
1986 “
Chinook Jargon and pidgin historiography”.
Canadian Journal of Anthropology 51.23–34.
Samarin, William J.
1988 “
Jargonization before Chinook Jargon”.
Anthropological Research Notes 22:2.219–238.
Samarin, William J.
1989 The Black Man’s Burden: African colonial labor on the Congo and Ubangi Rivers, 1880–1900. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.
Samarin, William J.
1985 The state’s bakongo burden bearers. In
The workers of African trade, ed. by
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Paul E. Lovejoy, 269–92. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications.
Samarin, William J.
1986 Protestant missions and the history of Lingala.
Journal of Religion in Africa 16.2.138–163.
Samarin, William J.
2013 Versions of Kituba’s origin: Historiography and theory.
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 34.1.111–181.
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1989 The black man’s burden: African colonial labor on the Congo and Ubangi Rivers, 1880–1900. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.
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1990/1991 “
The Origins of Lingala and Kituba”.
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 121.47–77.
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1995 “
Domesticity in the development of Chinook Jargon”.
Language Contact in the Arctic: Northern Pidgins and Contact Languages ed. by
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Samarin, William J.
1998 “
The creation and critique of a Central African myth”.
Revue française d’outre-mer 85 (n° 318), 55–81.
Samarin, William J.
2017 The etymology of mbunzú for ‘white-man’ in Sango: Central African history. University of Toronto manuscript (link:
[URL]).
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(ed.) 1988 In
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