Guide to the Stanford University, Language Universals Project, Records
SC0449
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Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Stanford University, Language Universals Project, records
Identifier/Call Number: SC0449
Physical Description:
3.25 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1967-1976
Summary: Records include
correspondence and supporting documents from applicants for research positions, other
correspondence, typescripts of their WORKING PAPERS ON LANGUAGE UNIVERSALS (numbers 1,3, and
8-20), bibliography, and the bulletin from the Survey of Language Use and Language Teaching
in Eastern Africa (1967-69).
Language of Material:
Undetermined .
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Admininstrative transfer, 1986.
Information about Access
Partially restricted: applicant files are closed to researchers.
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Cite As
Stanford University, Language Universals Project, Records (SC0449). Department of Special
Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
The Language Universals Project, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, conducted
crosslinguistic studies on various aspects of phonology, grammar, and semantics. It was
directed by Charles A. Ferguson and Joseph H. Greenberg.
Description of the Collection
Records include correspondence and supporting documents from applicants for research
positions, other correspondence, typescripts of their WORKING PAPERS ON LANGUAGE UNIVERSALS
(numbers 1,3, and 8-20), bibliography, and the bulletin from the Survey of Language Use and
Language Teaching in Eastern Africa (1967-69).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Linguistic universals
Africa, Eastern -- Languages.
Box 1
Monograph part I sections (first set)
Box 2, folder 1
Working papers on Language Universals #1
1969
Box 2, folder 2
Working papers on Language Universals #2
1970
Box 2, folder 3
Working papers on Language Universals #3
1970
Box 2, folder 6
Working papers on Language Universals #9
1972
Box 2, folder 7
Working papers on Language Universals #10
1972
Box 2, folder 8
Working papers on Language Universals #11
1973
Box 2, folder 10
Working papers on Language Universals #12
1973
Box 2, folder 11
Working papers on Language Universals #13
1973
Box 2, folder 12
Manuscript Articles for Issue 14
1974
Box 2, folder 13
Working papers on Language Universals #15
1974
Box 2, folder 14
Working papers on Language Universals #16
1974
Box 2, folder 15
Working papers on Language Universals #17
1975
Box 2, folder 16
Working papers on Language Universals #19
1975
Box 2, folder 17
Working papers on Language Universals #20
1976
Box 2, folder 18
Working papers on Language Universals #18
1975
Box 2, folder 19
Working papers on Language Universals #
1975
Box 3, folder 1
Universals Project by Kurt Gottwald
April 10, 1970
Box 3, folder 2
Universals Project by Georg Babiniotis
Box 3, folder 3
Universals Project by Bernhard Rosenkranz
May 25, 1971
Box 3, folder 4
Index of Language Projects by Various Students
1971
Box 3, folder 5
Language Universals Project - Correspondence
1971
Box 3, folder 6
Language Universals Project - Correspondence (A-N)
1972-1973
Box 3, folder 7
Language Universals Project - Correspondence (O-Z)
1972-1973
Box 3, folder 8
Language Universals Project - Correspondence
1974
Box 3, folder 9
Universals Projects by Jordan Penčev; Jörg Bäcker; Bernhard Rosenkranz; Paul
Otto Samuelsdorff
