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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Brief statements of a fact or experience, written down for review, or as an aid to memory, or to inform someone else; also includes short, informal letters.
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Royal Skousen editorship papers, 1993-1999
Sub-Series — Box 37: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197232561503], Folder: 2-3
Identifier: MSS 8255 Series 1 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 6
Scope and Contents
Contains materials pertaining to the linguistic work of Royal Skousen, professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Contains files accumulated while Skousen served on the editorial board of the "Journal of Quantitative Linguistics" and "Computers and the Humanities," including correspondence, article printouts, pamphlets, contributor notes, and some periodical copies. Materials dated 1993-1999.
Dates:
1993-1999
Royal Skousen general research, 1963-2012
Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8255 Series 1 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 8
Scope and Contents
Contains research files (with correspondence, articles and presentations, and course materials) on Finnish morphology and general language research, English spelling and spelling research, spelling bees and reform, statistics and probability, Skousen's theory of Analogical Modeling (courses and research group, colleagues' research, talks and conferences, and general/miscellaneous material), computer programming, quantum computing and Quantum Analogical Modeling, and syntax. Materials dated...
Dates:
1963-2012
Royal Skousen media, 1976-2005
Series
Identifier: MSS 8255 Series 3
Scope and Contents
Contains materials pertaining to the linguistic work as well as personal papers of Royal Skousen, a professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Contains film reels of early word list and spelling research; ADL/AML and A and S manuscript files (mainly on floppy disks and VHS tapes); other career work of Royal Skousen involving languages, spelling, research, as well as personal and family files (including games), blank disks, and miscellaneous material (all on floppy disks); Book of...
Dates:
1976-2005
Royal Skousen papers on Brigham Young University career, 1967-2014
Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8255 Series 1 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents
Contains career advancement and academic department files, course material files, and student mentoring files accumulated before and while Skousen was employed as an associate/assistant/full professor of English and linguistics at Brigham Young University (1979-present). This includes employment contracts and promotions, memos, committee materials, awards, departmental changes and correspondence, leave arrangements, scholar visits, copyright issues, new technology, annotated periodicals,...
Dates:
1967-2014
Royal Skousen research on Bible versions, 1993-1994
Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8255 Series 2 Sub-Series 7
Scope and Contents
Contains research on version of the Bible (mostly in the form of photocopied excerpts from versions published between 1611 and 1979), including printouts of Isaiah quotations in the Book of Mormon, card catalog notes and printouts of Bible call numbers, and research schedules. Materials dated 1993-1994.
Dates:
1993-1994