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Call Number: SC0475
Creator:
Ferguson, Charles A. (Charles Albert), 1921-1998
Title: Charles A. Ferguson papers
Dates: 1943-1993
Physical Description:
19 Linear feet
Summary: 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.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Gift of C.A. Ferguson, 1993-1996.
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford 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.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of
digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
Charles A. Ferguson Papers (SC0475). Department of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
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.
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.
Ferguson, Charles A. (Charles Albert), 1921-1998
Inter-Lutheran Commission on Worship.
Stanford University. Dept. of Linguistics
--Faculty.
Africa, Eastern--Languages.
Asia, Southeastern--Languages.
Language acquisition.
Linguistics--Study and teaching.