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Language:English
Date:1930-1938
Contributor:Angulo, Jaime de | Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887-1949 | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 1897-1941
Subject:Language families | Linguistics | Orthography and spelling | Psychology
Type:Text
Extent:360 pages
Description: The materials in the ACLS collection relating generally to the study of the linguistics, and not to specific languages, are located in the "Linguistics, General" section of the finding aid and consist of several essays and reports relating to issues such as transcriptions methodologies, psychology of language, language classification, and assessments of the state of the study of Indigenous American languages in the 1930s.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
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Language:English
Date:1939 and undated
Contributor:Radin, Paul, 1883-1959 | Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 1897-1941
Subject:Language families | Penutian languages | Uto-Aztecan languages | Migrations | Archaeology | Anthropology | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Essays
Extent:2 items
Description: Two items: Radin's undated "Aboriginal history of North America," an outline considering physical and archaeological evidences for various waves of migration to North America, and Whorf's "Remarks on Utaztecan and Macro-Penutian," a discussion of Utaztecan, Penutian, and Mayan and probable linguistic relationship.
Collection:Paul Radin papers (Mss.497.3.R114)