Description
Correspondence,
minutes, reports, proposals, surveys, research notes, articles, and other items pertaining
to his research in linguistics; subjects include South Asian languages, East African
languages, child phonology, and language universals. Also includes course outlines and final
exams from classes he taught at Stanford; his autobiography; and minutes and papers from the
Inter-Lutheran Commission on Worship, 1967-77.
Background
Professor of linguistics at Stanford University since 1967. Prior to coming to Stanford,
Ferguson was director of the Center for Applied Linguistics and taught and conducted
research at the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Foreign Service Institute
in Washington, DC.
Restrictions
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University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is given on behalf of Special
Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright
owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Availability
This collection is open for research.