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Linguistics

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

Josette B. Ashford papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6137
Scope and Contents

Contains Josette Ashford's personal scrapbook of photographs, postcards, correspondence and clippings detailing her life from the early 1920s until about 1999 and course materials as a professor of French and Italian at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Also included are linguistics research and publications, handouts, articles, news clippings, poetry, and literary/linguistic analysis note card files from 1951 to 1990. It also includes her life history.

Dates: 1920-1999

Benjamin F. Cummings linguistics notes, date of production not identified

 File — Box 2: Series 2, Folder: 9
Identifier: UA 171 Series 2
Scope and Contents

Notes and papers from classes of linguistics that Cummings created. The records include class syllabi for theory, interpretations, and a glossary of terms.

Dates: date of production not identified

Josette B. Ashford personal papers, 1920-1999

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6137 Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains personal scrapbooks including photographs, postcards, clippings from magazines and newspapers and correspondence from the early 1920s until about 1999. The bulk of this scrapbook details her travels, mainly to Europe and the Middle East. Also included is an autobiography of Josette B. Ashford.

Dates: 1920-1999

Josette B. Ashford professional papers, 1951-1990

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6137 Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains course materials as a professor of French and Italian at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Also included are linguistics research and publications, handouts, articles, news clippings, poetry, and literary/linguistic analysis note card files, covering the years 1951-1999.

Dates: 1951-1990

Royal Skousen general professional papers, 1951-2014

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 8255 Series 1 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents Contains of linguistic theory notebooks leading up to the publication of "Analogical Descriptions of Language" (early version)/"Analogical Modeling of Language" and "Analogy and Structure"; other publications and creative works (separated into presentations, articles, reviews and online publications, research proposals, and humor/poetry/miscellanea); general career correspondence; teaching and research files (separated into sponsoring/employing universities with corresponding...
Dates: 1951-2014

Royal Skousen papers on University of California, San Diego career, 1981 March-July

 Sub-Series — Carton 13: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197232578077], Folder: 37-38
Identifier: MSS 8255 Series 1 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents

Contains two course files created while Skousen was a visiting professor of linguistics at the University of California-San Diego. This includes enrollment data, lecture notes, handouts, quizzes and exams, class schedules, and student assignments. Materials dated March-July 1981.

Dates: 1981 March-July

Royal Skousen papers on University of Texas at Austin career, 1973-2005

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8255 Series 1 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents Contains career work done and course files accumulated during and after Skousen's stint as an assistant professor at the University of Texas-Austin. This includes research on phonology and writings on a colleague's theory, as well as files for courses taught on language acquisition, probabilistic linguistics, and general linguistics, and those from an LDS Institute class on the Apostasy (includes course rolls, outlines, syllabi, lecture notes, exams and assignments, etc.). Some of the...
Dates: 1973-2005

Royal Skousen writings on Book of Mormon, 1990-2008

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8255 Series 2 Sub-Series 5
Scope and Contents Contains materials pertaining to the linguistic work of Royal Skousen, a professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Particularly research and draft files for various articles and reviews written by Skousen, as well as presentations and lectures given based on some of these articles. Also included are comparative collations of Isaiah quotations in the Old Testament and the Book of Mormon, correspondence, agreements, writing and presentation guides, travel itineraries and souvenirs,...
Dates: 1990-2008

Sidney B. Sperry correspondence, 1945-1954

 Series — Box 2: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197227664155]
Identifier: UA 618 Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence with his family, students, Church notables and fellow scholars, senators, Ernest Wilkinson, and others.

Dates: 1945-1954

Sidney B. Sperry correspondence, family history, students papers, finances, 1938-1960

 Series — Box 4: Series 4; Series 5; Series 6; Series 7 [Barcode: 31197227663983], Folder: 1
Identifier: UA 618 Series 4
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence with members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (RLDS), including president Israel A. Smith, F. Henry Edwards, and C. J. Hunt. Materials date from 1938 to 1960)

Dates: 1938-1960