The Department of Teaching and Learning
Bill Pulte, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dr. William Pulte was born at Gainesville, Texas on January 13, 1941. He received the B.A. and M.A. degrees in Spanish at North Texas State University and the Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1971.
Dr. Pulte served as staff linguist for the Cherokee Bilingual Education Program at Tahlequah, Oklahoma from 1971-73. Dr. Pulte joined the faculty of the Department of Anthropology at SMU in 1973.
In collaboration with Durbin Feeling, Dr. Pulte has done extensive research on the Cherokee language. He is editor of the Cherokee-English Dictionary, compiled by Durbin Feeling, and the co-author of with Feeling of the Outline of Cherokee Grammar. He is also the author of over twenty articles and papers on Cherokee and other American Indian languages.
Dr. Pulte has coordinated the teacher certification program in bilingual education at SMU since 1975, and has been the director of nine teacher training projects in bilingual education funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
Major Publications
Cherokee-English Dictionary (edited by William Pulte). Durbin Feeling in collaboration with Agnes Cowen Dictionary Project Coordinator and The Dictionary Committee, Charles Sanders, Chairman, Sam Hair, Annie Meigs, Anna Gritts Kilpatrick Smith. Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, 1975.
Outline of Cherokee Grammar William Pulte and Durbin Feeling, Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, 1975.
Books and Monographs
1998 Cherokee Texts. With Durbin Feeling. Completed except for final formatting, to be submitted to University of Nebraska press.
1975 Cherokee-English Dictionary
(editor) Tahlequah: Cherokee Nation of
Oklahoma. 1975b (Senior Author with Durbin Feeling), An Outline of Cherokee
Grammar . Tahlequah: Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
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Chapters in Books
1987 with Durbin Feeling: "The Use of Cherokee in Religious Services." In Proceedings of the Seventh Annual International Institute on Native American Language Issues. Calgary, Canada.
1986 "Cherokee Syllabary Charts and Cherokee Literacy," in Proceedings of the Sixth Annual International Language Issues Institute, Suzanne Weryackwe, (ed.). 70-73. Norman, Oklahoma.
1979 "Cherokee: A Flourishing or Obsolescing Language?" in Language and Society, William C. McCormack and Sol Wurm, (eds.). 423-432. The Hague: Mouton Publishers.
1976 "The Obligatory-Optional Principle: A Counter-example from Cherokee," in The Third LACUS Forum 1976, Robert J. DiPietro and Edward L. Blansitt, Jr., (eds.). 77-79. Columbia, S.C.: Hornbeam Press, Inc.
1975a "The Position of Chickasaw in Western Muskogean," in Studies in Southeastern Indian Languages, James M. Crawford (ed.). 251-255. Athens: The University of Georgia Press.
1975b "Writing Systems and Underlying Phonological Representation: The Case of the Cherokee Syllabary," in 1975 Mid-America Linguistics Conference Papers, Frances Ingemann (ed.). 388-403. Lawrence: The University of Kansas Linguistics Department.
1972 "Some Claims Regarding Gapping: The Evidence from Cherokee," in Mid-America Linguistics Conference Papers, John Battle (ed.). 255-260. Stillwater: Oklahoma State University Press.
1971a "Gapping and Word Order in Quecha," in Papers from the Seventh Regional Meeting, Chicago Linguistics Society, 193-197. Chicago: Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago.
1971b"German in Virginia and West Virginia," in The German Language in America, Glenn G. Gilbert (ed.) 58-69. Austin: The University of Texas Press.
1970"An
Analysis of Selected German Dialects of North Texas and Oklahoma: in Texas
Studies in Bilingualism, Glenn G. Gilbert (ed.). 105-115. Berlin: Walter de
Gruyter & Co.
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Articles in Journals
"Sequoyah in Mexico," Cuarto Oscuro, February 1998.
"It's Time to Wake Up," Cuarto Oscuro, August, 1997.
"What is Bilingual Education?" Cuarto Oscuro, December, 1996.
"Excerpt from the Diary of a Cherokee Shaman," Journal of Cherokee Studies, Vol. X. 1986
"The Origin of Evil Magic," Journal of Cherokee Studies, Vol. X. 1986
"What is Bilingual Immersion?" The Intercultural Development Research Association Newsletter, Oct. 1986, pp. 1-5. 1986
"The Experienced and Non-experienced Past in Cherokee," International Journal of American Linguistics. 4:543-44. 1985
"The Cherokees and the Kickapoo of Coahuila, Mexico: a Previously Unreported Relationship," Journal of Cherokee Studies. 1:35-36. 1984
"Are Bilingual-Bicultural Programs Socially Divisive?" The Education Digest. May: 55-57. 1979
"Are Bilingual-Bicultural Programs Socially Divisive?" Integrate Education, XVI (September/ October): 31-33. 1978
"The Nineteenth Century Cherokee Grammars," Anthropological Linguistics. (Senior Author with Durbin Feeling) 19(6):274-279. 1977
"A Note on Gapping," Linguistic Inquiry, 4:100. 1973