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Linguistics.

 Subject
Subject Source: Fast

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Francis Daniel Althoff, Jr. Collection on Afromexican Spanish

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0589
Abstract

Field interviews, transcripts, and other materials related to Francis Daniel Althoff’s doctoral dissertation “The Afro-Hispanic Speech of the Municipio of Cuajinicuilapa, Guerrero.”

Dates: 1985 - 1993

George Fortune Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS Group 205
Abstract George Fortune (1915-2012) conducted extensive research and wrote widely on Central and Southern African languages for over fifty years. His writings concerning the Shona language were crucial to the development of a standard Shona orthography, and he also played a key role in establishing African linguistics as a field of study at African universities. This collection reflects Fortune's roles as a student, priest, husband and father, teacher and university department chair, collector of...
Dates: 1869-2006; Majority of material found within 1945-1990