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Add MS 86822A
- Record Id:
- 040-000583971
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000375067
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000938.0x00016c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 86822A
- Title:
- Human Language Offprints
- Scope & Content:
-
Some items are undated.
- Letter to Maynard Smith from William Greenhood (Biological Sciences, Santa Fe Community College); 19 Oct 1993. Included are articles by Greenwood: ‘Homeotic genes and the origin of syntax’; William Greenhood and James Cooke Brown, ‘The use of the scenatio method in the historical sciences’; and William Greenhood and James Cooke Brown, ‘Paternity jokes and song: a possible evolutionary scenario for the origin of language and mind’, Journal of Social and Biological Structures, 14 (1991), 255-309.
- Letter to Maynard Smith from Bjorn Lindblom (Stockholms Universitet) relating to evolutionary thinking and linguistics; 15 Sep 1996. Includes articles by Lindblom: ‘Systemic constraints and adaptative change in the formation of sound structure’; Bjorn Lindblom, ‘Evolutionsteorins fratande syra nar sprakvetenskapen’, Fortsattning nasta sida (In Swedish); Bjorn Lindblom, ‘Phonetic universal in vowel system’, in Experimental phonology, ed. by John J. Ohala and Jeri J. Jaeger (Orlando: Academic Press, inc, 1986), pp. 13-44; and Bjorn Lindblom et al., ‘Is sound change adaptive?’, Rivista di Linguistica, 7 (1995), 5-37.
- Letter to Maynard Smith from Merritt Ruhlen, 9 Dec 1993. Enlosed articles: Joseph H. Greenberg and Merritt Ruhlen, ‘Linguistic Origins of Native Americans’, Scientific American, 267 (1992), 94-9. Annotated 'to John Maynard Smith, with the best wishes of the author, Merrit; 9 Dec 1993.
- Merritt Ruhlen, On the origin of languages: Studies in linguistic taxonomy (Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 1994).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000375067
036-000375071
040-000583971 - Is part of:
- Add MS 86569-86840 : John Maynard Smith Archive
Add MS 86597-86830 : Subject files
Add MS 86822A : Human Language Offprints - Hierarchy:
- 032-000375067[0003]/036-000375071[0234]/040-000583971
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 86569-86840
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 11 loose items approximately
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Swedish - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1986
- End Date:
- 1996
- Date Range:
- 1986-1996
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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