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M.B. Emeneau papers, circa 1935-2000.
BANC MSS 2003/230 zLOCAL
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Title:

M.B. Emeneau papers, circa 1935-2000

Creator/Contributor:

Emeneau, M. B. (Murray Barnson), 1904-2005, creator

Abstract:

The papers contain field notes, drafts of articles and books, subject files, reviews, and correspondence.

Date:

1935 (issued)

Subject:

Toda language (India) -- Grammar
Toda language (India) -- Texts
Kota language (India)
Dravidian languages
Indo-Aryan languages
Toda (Langue de l'Inde) -- Grammaire
Toda (Langue de l'Inde) -- Textes
Kota (Langue)
Langues dravidiennes
Langues indo-aryennes
Dravidian languages
Indo-Aryan languages
Kota language (India)
Toda language (India)
Toda language (India) -- Grammar
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of Linguistics.
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of Linguistics.

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Murray Barnson Emeneau was born in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia on February 28, 1904. He received bachelors degrees from Dalhousie, (1923) and Oxford (1926) Universities, and a Ph. D. from Yale University in 1931. He was a research scholar and lecturer at Yale before undertaking extensive field work in South and Central India. (1936-1938), where he specialized in non-Dravidian languages. He was a founding member of the Department of Linguistics at U.C. Berkeley, where he served as professor of Sanskrit and linguistics from 1940-1971. Emeneau published more than 20 books and 200 articles and reviews. He died in Berkeley on August 29, 2005.

Type:

faculty papers.
manuscripts for publication.
Texts.
Field notes.

Physical Description:

print
10 cartons and 1 oversize folder (12.5 linear ft.)

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC MSS 2003/230 zLOCAL

Origin:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Copyright Note:

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.