Doris Bartholomew Explained

Birth Date:	14 December 1930
Alma Mater:	University of Chicago
Thesis Title:	The Reconstruction of Otopamean (Mexico)
Thesis Url:	https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/58082
Thesis Year:	1965

Doris Aileen Bartholomew (born December 14, 1930)^{[1] [2]} is an American linguist whose published research specialises in the lexicography, historical and descriptive linguistics for indigenous languages in Mexico, in particular for Oto-Manguean languages. Bartholomew's extensive publications on Mesoamerican languages span five decades of active research. She has also published extensively on Zapotecan languages and the Otomi language. She has been editor-in-chief and publications director for the Instituto Lingüístico de Verano (ILV), the affiliate body incorporated in Mexico for SIL International.

Studies and academic career

As an undergraduate Bartholomew attended Columbia Bible College^[3] in Columbia, South Carolina, from where she graduated in 1952. Her doctorate studies were undertaken at the University of Chicago, obtaining her PhD in 1965. Her doctoral dissertation concerned the reconstruction and historical linguistics of the Oto-Pamean languages.^[4]

Bartholomew conducted linguistic fieldwork among several different indigenous Mexican language communities, while working as publications coordinator for ILV's bilingual dictionary unit. She also lectured part-time in linguistics at El Colegio de México.

Partial bibliography

Bartholomew's published works include:

• Bartholomew, Doris . 1960 . Some revisions of Proto-Otomi consonants . . 26 . 3 . 317–329. 1263552 . 10.1086/464591. 144874022 .
• Bartholomew, Doris . 1968 . Concerning the Elimination of Nasalized Vowels in Mezquital Otomi . . 34 . 3 . 215–217 . 10.1086/465017 . 1263568. 143848950 .
• Bartholomew, Doris . 1963. El limosnero y otros cuentos en otomí. Tlalocan. 4. 2 . 120–24. 10.19130/iifl.tlalocan.1963.315 . es. free.
• Bartholomew, Doris . 1979. Review of Otomi Parables, Folktales, and Jokes by H. Russell Bernard; Jesús Salinas Pedraza. International Journal of American Linguistics. 45. 1. 94–97. 10.1086/465579.
• Bartholomew . Doris . 1963 . The Reconstruction of Otopamean (Mexico) . PhD dissertation . University of Chicago .

References

• CIU Alumni Association . Summer 2009 . Class Notes . PDF online facsimile . Upward . Columbia, SC . . 4 . 3 . 8–10 . 2009-08-13 . 2013-12-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131215053731/http://www.ciu.edu/publications/displaypdf.php?pub_id=85 . dead .
• Book: Hartmann . Reinhard R.K. . Reinhard Hartmann . 2003 . Lexicography: Critical Concepts . II: Reference works across time, space, and languages . London . . 0-415-25367-5 . 51222235.

External links

• List of Bartholomew's works, at Ethnologue by SIL International

Notes and References

1. For year of birth, see
2. Web site: THE RECONSTRUCTION OF OTOPAMEAN (MEXICO) . ProQuest.
3. Renamed in 1994 to Columbia International University (CIU).
4. See notes on contributors in