Catherine "Cathy" Callaghan (October 31, 1931 – March 16, 2019) was Professor Emerita in the Department of Linguistics at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. ^{[1] [2]}

She received a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1963. Her doctoral dissertation was a grammar of Lake Miwok, ^[3] written under the supervision of Mary Haas. She then started work on the Lake Miwok Dictionary, which was published in 1965. ^[4] She was appointed Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Ohio State University in 1965 and remained there until her retirement. ^{[5] [6]} She was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1969. ^[7]

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?, ^[8] which was filmed in 2014. Her papers on Miwok Languages are collected at the California Language Archive. ^[9]

In 1973, Callaghan co-founded Feminists for Life, an anti-abortion feminist non-profit. ^[10]

Callaghan died on March 16, 2019, in Columbus, Ohio. ^{[11] [12]}

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