William Diver papers, 1955-1989

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Series I: Correspondence & Manuscripts


Word:


WORD - Dead - A-G:



Box 1 Folder 2 Correspondence to and from Uriel Weinreich related to the journal Word, 1954-1956

(Including correspondence with many notable linguists, such as a letter from 4/15/1957 inviting Noam Chomsky to review Joseph Greenberg's Essays in Linguistics)


WORD C-F:


Box 1 Folder 4 Correspondence to and from Uriel Weinreich related to the journal Word, 1957-1959


WORD G-H:


Box 1 Folder 5 Correspondence to and from Uriel Weinreich related to the journal Word, 1957-1959


WORD I-L:


Box 1 Folder 17 Notebook entitled WORD, including log of manuscripts submitted and their disposition, with inserted ms. from I. R. Galperin Word-related correspondence with Weinreich and Diver, 1957-1959


WORD - Dead - H-L:


Box 1 Folder 3 Correspondence to and from Uriel Weinreich related to the journal Word, 1954-1956


WORD M-R:


Box 1 Folder 6 Correspondence to and from Uriel Weinreich related to the journal Word, including some letters to and from Diver, 1957-1959


WORD - Dead M-R:


Box 1 Folder 13 Correspondence with Uriel Weinreich with regard to journal Word, 1954-1958

(Also includes an inserted file of a letter from 1967)


WORD S-T:


Box 1 Folder 16 Only contains correspondence between Weinreich and Pavel Trost, 1957-1959


WORD - Dead S-Z:


Box 1 Folder 15 Correspondence with Uriel Weinreich with regard to journal Word


WORD U-Z:


Box 1 Folder 12 Correspondence with Weinreich and Diver with regard to journal Word, 1957-1958


Box 1 Folder 8 WORD L: Correspondence to and from Uriel Weinreich and Diver related to the journal Word



Box 2 Folder 17 Letter acknowledging appointment to status as Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, 12/10/1990, 10 December 1990



Box 1 Folder 7 Clowes: Correspondence between Uriel Weinreich and Clowes and Sons Ltd. Printers, about having the journal Word printed by them, December 1957-13 July 1959


Box 1 Folder 9 Exchange: Correspondence related to Word, including some book reviews (by others), 1957-1959


Martinet & Weinreich, 1959-1961


Box 1 Folder 10 Correspondence between Diver, Uriel Weinreich and André Martinet

(With Descriptions of courses taught by Weinreich and Bibliography of writings of Weinreich)


Box 1 Folder 11 Linguistic Circle of New York - Minutes, 1949-1950


University of Chicago Press:


Box 1 Folder 14 Letter from U of Chicago Press soliciting a manuscript from Diver , 12 December 1966


Box 1 Folder 14 Letter from Diver suggesting he might write 3 books (with encouraging reply) , 17 August 1967


Box 1 Folder 14 Letter proposing publication of a collection of three Columbia Master's Essays written from the perspective of Diver's theoretical approach, with introductory remarks by him, with the title Studies in Grammatical Analysis, 9 January 1968



Box 2 Folder 3 Correspondence with editor of Acta Linguistica Hafnensia about a promised paper by Diver , 1966



Box 3 Folder 1 Correspondence with Michael Kaplan about various topics related to Spanish linguistics, 1980



Box 2 Folder 33 Correspondence with Lord Zuckerman about an article he wrote in the New York Review


Box 2 Folder 3 Satirical letter addressed to The Faculty of Blake School, Hopkins, Minnesota about the expression "by and large", 4 October 1955



Box 1 Folder 18 Letter from Ellen Contini-Morava and Barbara Sussman Goldberg to conference participants, with regard to publication of the conference proceedings, 8 January 1992


Box 1 Folder 19 Correspondence about publication of Diver's paper "Theory" in volume edited by Ellen Contini-Morava and Barbara Sussman Goldberg, 1994

(Includes Contini-Morava's editorial comments on Diver's paper)

Series II: Manuscripts, Print Outs, Conferences:



Box 5 Folder 32 Bound copy of book-length typed manuscript, "The Italic Problem: a study of the prehistory of the Italic languages" (no date, probably early 1950's).



Box 1 Folder 20 The Relation of Latin to Oscan-Umbrian, along with handwritten notes with proposed revisions. (Dissertation), 1953

(With synopsis of Diver's dissertation)


Box 1 Folder 8 Manuscript and associated correspondence with A.R. Luria: Original Russian ms. "Регулирующая функция речи в ее развитии и распаде" and English translation "The Directive Function of Speech in Development and Dissolution Part I. Development of the Directive Function of Speech in Early Childhood" and Part II: "Dissolution of the Regulative Function of Speech in Pathological States of the Brain" (published in Word in 1959)


Box 1 Folder 18 Handouts from the Second International Columbia School Conference on Linguistics, held at the University of Virginia , October 1991


Box 1 Folder 18 Texts of conference talks by Walter Hirtle and Wallis Reid


Box 1 Folder 19 Reprints of papers by Yishai Tobin, Linda Waugh, and Robert Kirsner


Box 1 Folder 19 Printout of post to FUNKNET by Bert Peeters about functional phonology and Daniel Everett's work on Pirahã


Box 1 Folder 19 One-page abstract, "Statistics and Strategies", apparently by Joseph Davis (no date)


Box 1 Folder 19 One-page abstract, "From Synchrony to Diachrony", by Diver (no date)


Box 1 Folder 19 Printout of email correspondence between Alan Huffman and Richard Hudson (no date), about syntax and semantics; includes a contribution from Robert Kirsner



Box 2 Folder 1 Typescript of Diver's paper, "The Chronological System of the English Verb", and a table of related data, 1963


Box 2 Folder 2 Draft of "The Chronological System of the English Verb", associated notes and examples

Notes (in someone else's handwriting) on Russian case and word order


Primer:


Box 2 Folder 4 Latin morphological tables


Box 2 Folder 4 Examples from Aeneid with English translation


Box 2 Folder 4 Latin examples


Box 2 Folder 4 One page of handwritten Greek examples


Berkeley:


Box 2 Folder 5 Various drafts of talk given at Berkeley, "And Now for Something Completely Different", with two versions of handout, advertisement of talk, 14 March 1990


Box 2 Folder 5 Typescript of "points raised for discussion at Berkeley"


Box 2 Folder 5 Typescript: "Appendix: The Failure of Syntax"


Box 2 Folder 6 Diver lecture, "From Synchrony to Diachrony", with handout and outline of paper, 1990s


Box 2 Folder 7 First three pages of conference talk, "Latin -T and Latin -TUR", CAAS, April 28, 1995; abstract of talk; handout


Box 2 Folder 7 Two-page discussion of the Latin subjunctive


Box 2 Folder 7 Handouts from other people's conference presentations


Box 2 Folder 8 Typescript of talk, "Position paper: Implications of the Theory for Language Teaching", apparently given in Montreal; handwritten notes; handout


Box 2 Folder 9 Typescript of talk, "A Re-Evaluation of Greek and Latin Grammar", March 21, 1991; handout Examples of strategies of Greek verb for 'stand', 21 March 1991


Box 2 Folder 9 Handout for talk, "Human Language"; invitation to party, 22 March 1991


Box 2 Folder 10 Typescript of talk, "The Structure of Language and the Hyperkinetic Child", part of a symposium at the Medical Society of the County of Queens; ad for symposium


Box 2 Folder 11 Typescript of ms., "The Subjunctive Without Syntax", reader's report and correspondence related to possible publication in Classical World.


Box 2 Folder 12 Talk for the New Jersey Classical Association, "The Subjunctive Without Syntax", March 21, 1992; associated correspondence


Box 2 Folder 13 Handout for talk at CAAS, "The Subjunctive Without Syntax", 25 April 1992


Box 2 Folder 14 Draft ms., "Place, Focus, and the Hierarchy of Participants" mimeographed course problem with note that WD got it from (Joseph) Malone


Box 2 Folder 15 Ms. of talk, "Phonology as Human Behavior", given at the New York Academy of Sciences; mimeograph (retyped) copy of same talk, March 1975


Box 2 Folder 15 Handouts, handwritten notes, and data about phonology from various courses; Typed draft ms., "Aspirated Stops" (no date)


Box 2 Folder 16 Tables of distribution of English consonants


Box 2 Folder 16 Reprint of paper by Philip Lieberman on language evolution


Box 2 Folder 17 Diver's CV (through 1975)


Box 2 Folder 17 Description of program in Language as Communication at Columbia


Box 2 Folder 18 Ms., "English Grammar, 1983 Version, Draft 2", Vol. I Reference Grammar, includes table of contents, Introduction, The System of Number


Box 2 Folder 18 Notes, data, counts related to Greek verbs and Latin case


Box 2 Folder 18 Paper written for course taken by Diver on General Linguistics, "A Problem of Greek Phonetics", 3 June 1950


Box 2 Folder 19 Sections of ms., "The Grammars of Homeric Greek and Classical Latin, Textbook, Linguistics G6805-6806, 1987, For class use only"--miscellaneous sections not in any clear order


Box 2 Folder 19 Sections of other versions of same ms., 1984, 1987-88


Box 2 Folder 19 Section of ms. "The Grammar of Modern English; Part V Phonology; Chapter I The Theory"; notes and assignment related to that topic.


Box 2 Folder 20 Ms., "The Grammar of Modern English, Textbook, Linguistics G6801, 1984, for class use only"


Box 2 Folder 20 Ms., "The Grammar of Modern English, 1985 Version"


Box 2 Folder 20 Ms., "The Grammars of Homeric Greek and Classical Latin, Textbook, Linguistics G6803, 1984, for class use only"


Box 2 Folder 21 Talk for CAAS, "The Case of the Person Persuaded", Sept. 28, 1991; handout and examples


Box 2 Folder 22 Correspondence and readers' reports wrt attempted publication of The Grammar of Modern English and Diver's grammars of Greek and Latin, 1987


Box 2 Folder 23 Greek examples, "categorizations of the uses of the dative in the Iliad"


Box 2 Folder 23 Data on "Probability assessed interlocked with time: Greek"


Box 2 Folder 23 Evaluating the two hypotheses


Box 2 Folder 23 Continuum of strategies in the production of messages (1988), 1988


Box 2 Folder 23 Focus-Control interacting with lexical and grammatical vividness


Box 2 Folder 23 The phonological system of Classical Latin


Box 2 Folder 23 Fragments of description with examples from Latin and Greek


Box 2 Folder 23 Student paper (1987) on Latin dative by Margaret Carfagno


Box 2 Folder 23 Degree of Foregrounding for English


Box 2 Folder 23 Probability assessed


Box 2 Folder 23 Examples


Box 2 Folder 24 Student paper by Wendy Saliba on Swahili prepositional suffix


Box 2 Folder 24 Reprint of Keenan's paper on "Universal Definition of 'Subject'"


Box 2 Folder 24 Ms., "On Defining the Discipline", paper read at UCLA, May 17, 1979; handout for talk


Box 2 Folder 24 Handout on the theory of language


Box 2 Folder 24 Greek and Latin participants in focus


Box 2 Folder 24 Folder labeled ISO with description and data on "Indicative, Subjunctive, Optative" in Greek


Box 2 Folder 25 Bibliography of Columbia School of Linguistics, 19 January 1988


Box 2 Folder 25 Sections of English Grammar, some in different versions


Box 2 Folder 26 Ms., "Re-Analysis of the Latin 'reflexive pronoun'", presented at the 14th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, February 1984


Box 2 Folder 27 Miscellaneous segments of Greek and Latin grammar; examples and course handouts


Box 2 Folder 28 Ms., "Synopsis of English Grammar (Short version), Revision of 1992 (With cosmetic changes in 1994)"


Box 2 Folder 28 Printout of email from David Zubin on semantic case, 5 May 1994


Box 2 Folder 28 Handout captioned "Rutgers Seminar", with examples from non-native speakers of English


Box 2 Folder 28 Letter regarding brain and language


Box 2 Folder 29 Correspondence between Diver and Dwight Bolinger about December 1979 discussion group at Modern Language Association


Box 2 Folder 29 Handouts from discussion group on General Linguistics organized by Dwight Bolinger, with talks by Otheguy, Reid, Zubin and Kirsner, introduced by Diver, Dec. 28, 1979


Box 2 Folder 29 Mimeo for handout, "On Defining the Discipline", UCLA, May 1979


Box 2 Folder 29 Invitation from UCLA Graduate Linguistics Circle for Diver to give a talk there, February 1979


Box 2 Folder 29 Miscellaneous counts and data


Box 2 Folder 30 Handout of talk, no title or venue specified (1975 CV lists "Linguistics Without Philosophy" at the Colloquium of the Washington Linguistics Club)


Box 2 Folder 30 Handout of talk, "DO", no venue specified (1975 CV lists "Theory and Analysis: the Auxiliary do," at the Colloquium of the Center for Applied Linguistics)


Box 2 Folder 30 Description of the Language as Communication program at Columbia


Box 2 Folder 31 Notes for revision of paper on Indo-European sound change


Box 2 Folder 31 Paper by Diver for Indo-European 203


Box 2 Folder 31 Handwritten ms. for "Diachronic Treatment of Indo-Iranian Phonology"


Box 2 Folder 31 Paper by W.S. Allen, "Some problems of palatalization in Greek"; letter from Allen


Box 2 Folder 32 Diver's notes on others' work, especially Chomsky


Box 2 Folder 32 Question for final exam


Box 2 Folder 32 Mimeographed diagram of generative grammar


Box 2 Folder 32 Handwritten analysis of generative grammar, ending "Comes the revolution"



Box 3 Folder 2 Handout on Homeric relative pronouns


Box 3 Folder 2 Twenty eight-page ms. on Homeric pronouns


Box 3 Folder 2 Data and notes on analysis of Homeric Greek pronouns, especially the "relative pronoun"


Box 3 Folder 2 Handout on Homeric pronoun


Box 3 Folder 3 Notes on Homeric Greek dual, including reprints of some related papers by others


Box 3 Folder 3 Text and handout from a talk about the dual, 9/26/86, unspecified venue


Box 3 Folder 3 Handout "Correlates of the dual"


Box 3 Folder 3 Handout "The dual"


Box 3 Folder 4 Notes and examples about English possessives: The genitive case


Box 3 Folder 5 Notes on Greek and Latin grammar, including pages from his grammars


Box 3 Folder 6 Draft manuscript, "On Defining the Discipline"


Box 3 Folder 7 Notes on use of χ2 for counts: "Interaction of meanings, systems, and lexicon", "Theory of the nature of language", "Structure of the discipline", Horsen problem, "The human factor; the grammatical periphery", "The role of inference in the identification of signals", Other notes


Box 3 Folder 8 Conference IV: Abstract and handout of paper "From Synchrony to Diachrony", presented at the 4th International Columbia School Conference on Linguistics, February 1995; Other conference-related materials, 1994-1995


Box 3 Folder 9 Scripta Minora (undated--1970's?): Various mimeographed handouts: "Delineation of the Discipline"; "Occurrence"; "Inferential Expertise"; "χ2"; Typed quotation from paper by Geoffrey Sampson about linguistics and philosophy


Box 3 Folder 10 Typed drafts and handwritten notes on the modal system of the English verb


Box 3 Folder 11 Applications of Linguistics to Teaching English as a Foreign Language: Typed text of lecture, "Applications of Recent Developments in Linguistics to the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language", unspecified venue and date


Box 3 Folder 17 Inf. Exp. (1960's?): Handwritten notes, data, and handout about Inferential Expertise


Box 3 Folder 19 1982 draft of The Grammar of Modern English, Textbook, Linguistics G4801, "For class use only"


Box 3 Folder 20 1982 draft of The Grammars of the Classical Languages, Textbook, Linguistics G6801, "For class use only"


Box 3 Folder 21 1983 version of The Grammar of Modern English, with some handwritten annotations


Box 3 Folder 23 English (1960's?): Notes and examples of English grammar, including some critical comments in what looks like Erica García's handwriting


Box 3 Folder 24 Comparative Linguistics (1960's): Mimeographed course handouts, with some annotations; "Limitations of the comparative method"; "General problem"; Paper by Gilbert Davidowitz, "The Relationship Between Semitic and Indo-European"


Box 3 Folder 26 Talk on Theory. Typed draft of introduction to a book (title not mentioned) about Diver's approach to linguistic theory


Box 3 Folder 26 Latin (1960s): Notes for Diver's course on the Structure of the Latin Language; Typed draft of essay on Latin subjunctive (7 pp.) and syntax (17 pp.)


Box 3 Folder 27 Notes for various courses, esp. Theories of Grammar, 1960-s-1980: Handouts, notes, data for various courses: Linguistics G4108x, 4104x, G8005x, G8001 Classical Philology, 8701x; Handout "Evolution of Grammatical Systems"; Handout "Greek: Participants and Focus"; Handout "Development of System of Participants"; Handout "Grammatical evolution"

Series III: Teaching


Courses, 1967-1975



Box 1 Folder 1 Notes and handouts for Linguistics G4108y, 1969


Box 1 Folder 1 Handout for Linguistics G4108


Box 1 Folder 1 Syllabus and handouts for Linguistics G4108x, 1967


Box 1 Folder 1 Notes and handouts on phonology


Box 1 Folder 1 Notes for Phonology 4108


Box 1 Folder 1 Syllabi for Linguistics G4108x, various years, one dated 1967


Box 1 Folder 1 Handout for Linguistics G4108y, 1969


Box 1 Folder 1 Handout for Classical Philology S4205G, the System of Extent


Box 1 Folder 1 Numbered handouts for Linguistics G6661x: 2 and 3, The System of Occurrence; 4 The General


Box 1 Folder 1 Theory: II The Human Mechanism


Box 1 Folder 1 Three student papers, 1974 & 1975


Box 1 Folder 19 Handout from Linguistics G8102y (taught by Diver)



Box 4 Folder 1 Course notes Intro to Indo-European: Notes and handouts for Diver's Intro to Indo-European course, 1950s-1960s



Box 3 Folder 12 CP203 Occurrence Handouts (1960's): Mimeographed handouts for Diver's Classical Philology course


Box 3 Folder 13 Linguistics (Greek Morphology): G4701v; G4108x; G6702x; G800ly


Box 3 Folder 14 CP204 Noun Morphology Notes


Box 3 Folder 15 4802 Phonology Notes (1970's): Mimeographed handouts from Diver's Phonology course


Box 3 Folder 16 Phonology (no date, 1950's?): Handwritten notes and data related to course Linguistics 328; Student assignment of Diana Kao on phonemic structure of Cantonese, with notes apparently by Diver


Box 3 Folder 18 Class Phil-Lgstcs G8001x: Mimeograph sheets of handouts for Diver's Classical Philology course


Box 3 Folder 22 IE 207 (undated): Notes for Diver's course on Indo-European



Box 4 Folder 2 WD handouts (1960s-early 1970s): Handouts for various courses, some with annotations; Student paper by visiting scholar Lawrence Carrington, "Implications of the Nature of the Creole Continuum for Sequencing Educational Materials"; Mimeographed pre-publication draft of "The System of Relevance of the Homeric Verb", 1950s-1960s


Box 4 Folder 3 Notes and handouts from Diver's Phonology course


Box 4 Folder 4 Notes and handouts from Linguistics S4113G, 4108x, G4108y, 1967-1977


Box 4 Folder 5 Notes and handouts from Synchrony course, late 1960s-early 1970s


Box 4 Folder 6 Notes, handouts and examples on Deixis and pronouns in English and Latin, late 1960s-early 1970s


Box 4 Folder 7 Classical Philology 201: Notes and handouts for Diver's Classical Philology course, 1950s-1960s?


Box 4 Folder 8 Data File: Notes and examples from Greek and Latin; phonological counts of Latin


Box 4 Folder 9 Classical Languages: Course notes and handouts, late 1960s?)


Box 4 Folder 10 Linguistics G6801x, General Linguistics: Course notes, assignments, handouts, 1980s


Box 4 Folder 11 Hist. of Linguistics (undated--late 1960's?): Misc. notes; Reprint of Kuryłowicz "Le Problème du classement des cas (1949)" with annotations in Erica García's handwriting


Box 4 Folder 12 History Linguistics Grammar: Notes, mimeographed handouts for Linguistics W4108; Mechanism of production of subjunctives; Evolution of grammatical systems: the Latin Verb, 1960s-1970s?


Box 4 Folder 13 IE 205 (1950's?): Notes for course on Indo-European; Offprint of review of Altheim, Geschichte der lateinischen Sprache; Typescript draft with notes about relationship of Latin to Oscan-Umbrian; Draft proposal to do research on Greek dialects in Greece in 1960-61; Draft, possibly of book Chapter 5, Implications, 1950s


Box 4 Folder 14 CP s205 (undated--1950's?): Handwritten notes for Comparative Philology course


Box 4 Folder 15 Class notes Saussure et al.(1960s-1970s): Mimeographed handouts (some with annotations) for Linguistics G6102y (possibly Theories of Grammar course); handwritten notes. 12-page mimeographed handout, "Glossemativs -- Condensed from Bertil Malmberg, Nya vägar inom språkforskningen (Stockholm, 1959), pp. 162-182. Draft translation by Harvey Sobelman. Not for general circulation." Mimeographed memo about student petition from Dept. of French and Romance Philology, to eliminate the Latin requirement.


Box 4 Folder 16 Indo-European 203 (undated--1950s?): Handwritten course notes


Box 4 Folder 17 Syntax (1960's): Notes and mimeographed handouts for Linguistics G4104y and G4103x, apparently Theories of Grammar


Box 4 Folder 18 Genling - 1981-1982: Handwritten and printed notes and handouts from General Linguistics II


Box 4 Folder 19 4018y (late 1960's): Mimeographed handouts for Linguistics G 4108 (Principles of Historical Linguistics) and G6102y (20th Century Linguistics)


Box 4 Folder 20 Phonology (1980s?): Mimeographed handouts from Linguistics G4108x, G4802, G4108y; Typed and printed course notes; Charts of phonological data


Box 4 Folder 21 Genling 88 (1980s-1990s): Printed assignments for Linguistics G6801x; Printed notes for Phonology course (various dates, 1980s); Printed notes for Survey of Linguistic Theory course (1988 and 1989)


Box 4 Folder 22 V3108 Mod. Eng. (undated): Handwritten course notes


Box 4 Folder 23 W4104 Handouts (1970s?): Notes and handouts, possibly for General Linguistics course


Box 4 Folder 24 20th Cent. (late 1970s): Notes and handouts for 20th Century Linguistics


Box 4 Folder 25 20th Cent. I (1960s?): Handwritten notes and mimeographed handouts from 20th Century Linguistics course (Some handouts from a course by Weinreich, 1963)


Box 4 Folder 26 Gen 83y (1980s): Printed notes from various courses, including Phonology and General Linguistics

(8-page printed text, "The Practical Consequences of Cartesian Linguistics" (no date), with note "This is an extract from a paper addressed primarily to a somewhat different point; I have not bothered to clear out the traces of the other purpose.")


Box 4 Folder 27 Bloomfield, et al. (1960s-1970s?): Handwritten notes and mimeographed handouts, apparently from 20th Century Linguistics course



Box 5 Folder 1 Hist. Ling. (late 1960's): Reprint of paper by Witold Mańczak, "Le développement phonétique irrégulier du a la fréquence en Russe" (published in 1968); Notes and mimeographed handouts from historical linguistics course


Box 5 Folder 2 4104 (late 1970's): Notes and mimeographed handouts from Theories of Grammar course


Box 5 Folder 3 QUI (1960s-1970s?): Notes and mimeographed handouts on Latin and Greek pronouns


Box 5 Folder 4 CP 203 Pronoun Notes (1960s-1970s?): Notes and mimeographed handouts about pronouns


Box 5 Folder 5 Lang -Teach (1980s?): Notes and handouts, apparently for a course aimed at language teachers. Includes materials being developed by Alan Huffman for teaching English. "A Primer for Homer". 8-page printed ms., "Position paper: Implications of the Theory for Language Teaching" (undated)


Box 5 Folder 6 CP203 N-D (late 1960's): Notes and mimeographed handouts on comparative grammar of Greek and Latin


Box 5 Folder 7 English Grammar and Classical Languages course notes 1992. Survey of Linguistic Theories for 1983 course in history of linguistics.


Box 5 Folder 8 General Linguistics (late 1970's-early 1980's): Printed notes and mimeographed handouts on comparative grammar of Greek and Latin and on the grammar of modern English. Verbs of 'persuading' in Homeric Greek. 18-page mimeographed ms., "Avoidance of the Obvious: the Pronoun as Minimax Solution" (labeled Linguistics G 6801, no date). Letter from Duncan Gardiner with enclosed paper on Prague School semantics


Box 5 Folder 9 G8003x/4y(1960's): Handwritten notes and mimeographed handouts for Classical Philology course


Box 5 Folder 10 V3206 Historical (1979-1990): Notes, mimeographed and printed handouts for course on Historical Linguistics. Verner's and Grimm's Laws (23 pp.). Xerox of sections from an unidentified textbook about historical linguistics


Box 5 Folder 11 English Grammar (1977-1979): 7-page mimeographed handout with critical discussion of Lees & Klima's rules. 20-page printout of "A Concise Grammar of Modern English I", undated. Loose and disconnected typescript pages of unidentified ms.


Box 5 Folder 12 Handwritten notes and mimeographed handouts for course on Historical Linguistics


Box 5 Folder 13 Ling G6801x 1970 (1970-71): Handwritten notes, examples and mimeographed handouts, possibly for course on Synchrony. 14-page mimeographed handout, "English Grammar" (Fall 1971)


Box 5 Folder 14 English (1968): Handouts for English Grammar course of Fall, 1968


Box 5 Folder 15 GL 108: Handwritten notes apparently for courses on Historical Linguistics and Indo-European; Reprint of Diver's paper, "The Problem of Old Bulgarian št" (published 1955); Mimeographed syllabus for Uriel Weinreich's course on Linguistic Geography, 1961-2


Box 5 Folder 16 CP 203 Gen.-Acc. Handouts (1967): Mimeographed handouts for Classical Philology course. Greek genitive/accusative cases.


Box 5 Folder 17 CP 203 Gen-Acc Notes (1968): Handwritten notes, data and mimeographed handouts (with annotations) about Greek genitive and accusative; English articles


Box 5 Folder 18 6661 - Latin Handouts for Linguistics G6661x; Mimeographed handouts, including a 17-page handout, "Characteristics of a Grammar: the Latin System of Occurrence"


Box 5 Folder 19 Varia 1950s

Carbon copy of 18-page ms., "On the Diachronic Role of the Morphological System", undated; Carbon copies of drafts of ms., "The Problem of Old Bulgarian št" with annotations (undated); assorted pages apparently from draft of same paper; Carbon copies of clean drafts of same paper; Carbon copy of 15-page review of Franz Altheim, Geschichte der lateinischen Sprache, von den Anfängen bix zum Beginn der Literatur (published in 1951); Carbon copy of 4-page review of Gino Bottiglioni, Manuale dei dialetti italici, Grammatica, Testi, Glossario con note etimologiche (published in 1954); Carbon copy of 6-page review of Hugh Hencken, "Indo-European Languages and Archaeology", article from American Anthropologist 1955; Carbon copy of 6-page review of Vittore Pisani, Le Lingue dell-Italia antica oltre il latino (published in 1953) and Emil Vetter, Handbuch der italischen Dialekte, I.Band: Texte mit Erklärung (both published in 1953); Drafts of some of above book reviews, with annotations; Letter from H.G. Lunt with critical comments on Diver's paper about Old Bulgarian št, addressed to Uriel Weinreich, and letter to Lunt from Diver responding to the criticisms (paper was published in 1955); Student paper by Diver, "Development of the Nasal Vowels of Old Slavic in Modern Russian", Jan. 30, 1950 (with grade of A+); Carbon copy of notes, "The Syntax of Umbrian"; Carbon copy of a 9-page text in Italian, apparently of an oral presentation by Diver, about the relationships among Latin, Oscan, and Umbrian.


Box 5 Folder 20 Genling (no dates): Mimeo sheets of handouts from courses Diver taught: The Grammar of Modern English, The Grammar of the Classical Languages; General Linguistics


Box 5 Folder 21 Letter to David Lightfoot accepting invitation to give a talk at McGill University, 11/3/77; Typescript of talk, "Putting the Horse Before the Cart: Linguistic Analysis and Linguistic Theory", labeled McGill version, 3/15/78; Mimeos of handouts from the talk and some handwritten notes (handouts slightly different, may be from various versions of talk)


Box 5 Folder 22 Gothic (no dates): Handwritten texts with interlinear glosses; diagrams of consonant relationships; notes on verbs


Box 5 Folder 23 IE206 (no dates): Handwritten notes for course on Indo-European. Includes some student notes.


Box 5 Folder 24 INDO-EUROPEAN 204 (no dates): Handwritten notes for course on Indo-European


Box 5 Folder 25 CP203 Place-Time Notes (no dates): Handouts from Linguistics G4108y; Classical Philology (Handwritten notes with data)


Box 5 Folder 26 CP203 Place-Time Handouts (1967-8): Handout labeled Classical Philology G8001x, November 14, 1967; Handout labeled Classical Philology G8001x, November 26, 1968


Box 5 Folder 27 CP203 Occurrence Notes (no dates): Handwritten notes in German (someone else's handwriting); Handwritten handout by M. Bleich about focus and system of Relevance; Typed and handwritten examples


Box 5 Folder 28 Pei: Copy of "Linguistic Development and Evolution in Romance by Professor Mario A. Pei; Report of a lecture given to the Linguistic Circle of Columbia University, January 21, 1950"; Handwritten notes by Diver


Box 5 Folder 29 Critical Analysis of Van Wyck Brooks: Paper written by Diver as a student for English 181, on which he got an A, May 19, 1946


Box 5 Folder 30 Letter from André Martinet, with regard to attempts to publish Diver's paper on Old Bulgarian št, November 18, 1954. Typed and handwritten notes from Diver's paper


Box 5 Folder 31 Problems of a general nature, Unclassified: Copy of "Report of a talk January 12, 1952, on The Structure of English Clusters and Syllables by Mel Most, to the Linguistic Circle of Columbia University"; Typed questionnaire about English pronunciation, with answers to questions filled in but no name or date; Handwritten notes on phonetics; Charts of "Vowel Characteristics of Southern British - After Paget" (and of French); looks like an assignment Diver did as a student; Bibliography, syllabus, exam, and some lecture notes from Linguistics 328, Indo-European Philology (no dates)



Box 3 Folder 32 CP 204 (1950s): Notes for Diver's Classical Philology course


Box 3 Folder 30 Course Notes: Comparative Grammar of Greek & Latin III; Classical Philology, 1960s


Box 3 Folder 31 CP6004y 1971 (1959-1970s): Handouts, notes, data for various courses; Reprint of Diver's 1958 paper & "The Prehistory of Greek Consonantism"


Box 3 Folder 29 Course Notes: Comparative Grammar of Greek & Latin II; Classical Philology, 1960s


Box 3 Folder 28 Folders labeled Course notes: Comparative Grammar of Greek & Latin, Classical Philology (1960's?) I, II, III: Handouts, notes, data for courses

Series IV: Notebooks

Notebooks from courses that Diver took as a graduate student (mostly about only half filled; often with off-topic parts)



Box 6 Folder 1 1. Indo-European grammar & morphology


Box 6 Folder 2 2. Historical linguistics course, GL 105


Box 6 Folder 3 3. Oscan etymology; some counts (Euclidean distances, 6 decimal places); draft job letter; paper about laryngeals & palatal quality tucked in


Box 6 Folder 4 4. Avestan; chess game on last page


Box 6 Folder 5 5. Sanskrit


Box 6 Folder 6 6. History of linguistics; opposition diagrams from Jakobson


Box 6 Folder 7 7. Phonetics, GL 103


Box 6 Folder 8 8. Gothic II


Box 6 Folder 9 9. Phonemics (mostly empty)


Box 6 Folder 10 10. Geography


Box 6 Folder 11 11. Dissertation notes: history of the problem


Box 6 Folder 12 12. Oscan-Umbrian


Box 6 Folder 13 13. Gothic


Box 6 Folder 14 14. Basque, Celtic, Arabic, Finnish


Box 6 Folder 15 15. Old Slavic


Box 6 Folder 16 16. Language in contact


Box 6 Folder 17 17. Function, structure, and linguistic change


Box 6 Folder 18 18. Problems of Indo-European


Box 6 Folder 19 19. Phonology


Box 6 Folder 20 20. Italic


Box 6 Folder 21 21. Unlabeled, mostly empty; notes on history of linguistics


Box 6 Folder 22 22. Unlabeled, mostly empty; notes on Columbia School analyses of English


Box 6 Folder 23 23. Unlabeled, one page of bibliographic references, otherwise empty


Box 6 Folder 24 & 25 Two small University of Chicago notebooks with notes on historical linguistics, one with chess game on last page


Box 6 Folder 26 Small red notebook: Draft of letters relating to WD's Fulbright in Italy and seeking job at Columbia.


Box 6 Folder 27 Small black notebook: thesis notes, Illyrian, transcription of Etruscan inscription from the Piacenza liver

Series V: Card Files



Box 7 Data (ca. 325 index cards)


Box 7 Notes on grammar (ca. 70 cards)


Box 7 Lecture notes (ca. 50 cards)


Box 7 Miscellaneous notes (ca. 30 cards)


Box 7 Bibliographical references (ca.680 cards)