William Diver papers, 1955-1989

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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