Linguistics
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = EUA
Found in 49 Collections and/or Records:
Notes on Gaelic Grammar and Vocabulary, late 19th-early 20th century
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW16
Scope and Contents
Notebook containing notes on Gaelic Grammar and Vocabulary. It is likely that these are class notes produced by the Rev Charles Robertson from Donald Mackinnon's lectures in the Celtic Department at Edinburgh University. This is possibly not the original notebook but a copy of Robertson's work. The notebook includes, notes on 'The Celt in English Art' taken from an article by Grant Allen in the Fortnightly Review February, 1891, pp267. Also notes on Old...
Dates:
late 19th-early 20th century
Notes on the Culdees and Their Rules, late 19th-early 20th century
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW14
Scope and Contents
Notebook containing notes on the Culdees and their Rules, by the Rev Charles Robertson. The contents are derived from Dr Reeves, On the Culdees' in Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy Vol. XXIV, Antiquities Part 1. The Culdee or Céli Dé was an ancient monastic order with settlements in Ireland and Scotland.
Dates:
late 19th-early 20th century
Papers of Charles Sarolea
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-15
Scope and Contents
The Sarolea collection has been preserved in 234 numbered files in 81 boxes. The collection covers the years 1897-1952 and relate to all of the Professor's various activities and interests. For convenience, it can be divided into four main divisions.Firstly, there are the Everyman papers relating to the weekly literary journal Everyman, his life, work and books with which Sarolea had an interest from 1914. Within...
Dates:
1897-1952
Papers of David Abercrombie
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-66
Scope and Contents
The Papers of Professor David Abercrombie held at Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections and Archives, consist of personal material such as documents and diaries etc, and material relating to his involvement in university or departmental administration; lecture and tutorial notes and other academic notes; material relating to areas of research; and, material relating to publications and broadcast talks. There is a great deal of correspondence, including personal and non-academic...
Dates:
1937- 1993
Papers of John Abercromby, 5th Lord Abercromby of Aboukir and Tullibody
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-55
Scope and Contents
The collection holds a 19th century Irish manuscript with covering letter dated 1884. There are a large number of letters and postcards spanning the years 1881 to 1916. The collection also consists of notebooks on archaeological, philological and linguistic topics; drawings of archaeological artefacts; bundles of studies for The Pre- and Proto-Historic Finns; material on the tabulation of Finnish folk tales; printed items, notes, photographs of the Canary Islands; material including...
Dates:
before 1881-1916
Papers of Professor James Robertson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1041
Scope and Contents
The Papers of Professor James Robertson consist of notes on oriental languages.
Dates:
before 1795
Papers of Professor John Orr
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-77
Scope and Contents
This fonds consists of the papers, lectures and correspondence of Professor John Orr, mainly relating to Romance linguistics. The correspondence includes 20 letters from the poet Jules Supervielle, dating from 1947-1955. The collection also includes 7 diplomas: Hon. Doct. University of Caen (1945); Officier de la Legion d'Honneur (1946); Encomienda de Alfonso x el Sabio (1953); Commandeur de la Legion d'Honneur (1955); LL.D, St Andrews University (1955); Hon. Doct. Paris University (1956);...
Dates:
1912-1965
Papers of Professor R. L. G. Ritchie
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-93
Scope and Contents
The papers of Professor Ritchie consist mainly of material relating to a projected work on the French element in Scots. The collection is composed of general and introductory material, notes on purely Scots words, material on phonology, a glossary, a bibliography, and unworked notes on French loanwords and personal names. There is also material on Arthurian studies.
Bibliography of texts read. Schema for...
Dates:
circa 1916
Papers of Professor Robert Bertram Serjeant
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1062
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of 11 unsorted boxes of papers which contain research notes (linguistics, ethnology and anthropology in South Arabia), bibliography notes, newspapers related to events in South Arabia, photocopies of Arabic manuscripts, typed notes on the political and military situation in Yemen during the 1960s (North Yemen Civil War).
Papers relating to academic research, containing...
Dates:
1940-1980
Papers of Robert Laws
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-75
Scope and Contents
The Papers of Robert Laws consist of notebooks and papers mainly relating to the work of the Livingstonia Mission in Nyasaland (now Malawi), including notebooks on African languages. There is correspondence and other papers and also printed items including translations from the Bible and grammars.
Dates:
c 1875-1934