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Linguistics -- Research

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

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 collation of Book of Mormon text, 1981-2020

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8255 Series 2 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents Contains materials pertaining to the linguistic work of Royal Skousen, professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. In particular are Skousen's complete collation files on the Book of Mormon text, title page through Moroni 10, in main bulk and original drafts. This includes symbol keys and stemma, progressive editions of each passage's collation, overhead sheets, articles, cue sheets, library research notes, and directory and file printouts. Also includes research, writing, and...
Dates: 1981-2020

Royal Skousen consulting papers, 1978-1986

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8255 Series 1 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 5
Scope and Contents

Contains materials accumulated while Skousen was doing linguistic research as a consultant for Houghton Mifflin, Weidner Communications, Satellite Software International, and ITT, on topics such as English spelling and spelling reform, syllabification, verb types, and English phonemes. Materials dated 1978-1986.

Dates: 1978-1986

Royal Skousen correspondence on linguistics, 1968-1995

 Sub-Series — Carton 10: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197232578044], Folder: 32
Identifier: MSS 8255 Series 1 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents

Contains materials pertaining to the linguistic work of Royal Skousen, a professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. In particular, contains correspondence between Skousen and several of his colleagues in the field of linguistics and textual criticism. Materials dated 1968-1995.

Dates: 1968-1995

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 materials for Analysis of textual variants, 2004-2018

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8255 Series 2 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 5
Scope and Contents

Contains draft files and other materials related to the publication of Volume 4 of Skousen's Book of Mormon Critical Text Project series, comprising 6 parts in 2 editions. Includes publication information, changes incorporated into the second edition, printed copies (1st edition) and uncut signatures (2nd edition) of the six parts, etc. Material dated 2004-2018.

Dates: 2004-2018

Royal Skousen materials for History of the text of the Book of Mormon : grammatical variation, 1981-2018

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8255 Series 2 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents Contains topical drafts and publication/presentation files for Volume 3/Parts 1-2 of his Book of Mormon Critical Text Project series, printed in 2019. This includes drafts and proofs of introduction and background/setup material, article and presentation drafts (his own and those of his collaborator, Stanford Carmack), loose printed signatures (trimmed and untrimmed), PDFs, drafts of the alphabetical topical sections oof the book (specific words and phrases as well as grammatical...
Dates: 1981-2018

Royal Skousen materials for History of the Text of the Book of Mormon: King James quotations in the Book of Mormon, 2005-2019

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8255 Series 2 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents

Contains materials related to the publication of Part 5 of Volume 3 of Skousen's Book of Mormon Critical Text Project series; includes printed signatures, proofs and corrections, PDFs, introduction material, topical sections, collation and sorting files, etc. Materials dated 2005-2019.

Dates: 2005-2019

Royal Skousen materials for History of the text of the Book of Mormon : spelling in the manuscripts and editions, 2006-2020

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8255 Series 2 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents

Contains writing and publication materials for Volume 3, Part 6 of Skousen's Book of Mormon Critical Text Project series, including introductory material, formatting details, chapter and topical section files (graphemes, capitalization, spacing, hypens, punctuation, etc.), background information on Book of Mormon scribes, analysis of misspellings, PDFs, index cards, reviews, final versions, uncut signatures, etc. Materials dated 2006-2020.

Dates: 2006-2020