Martin Joos Papers, [ca. 1930s-1970s]

Mss.Ms.Coll.22

Date: Circa 1930-1970 | Size: 16 Linear feet
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Abstract

This is a diverse collection containing professional correspondence, often relating to lectures, speeches, and articles; reprints; and numerous tape recordings.

Background note

Linguist Martin Joos taught at the University of Toronto and the University of Wisconsin. Joos impacted the study of linguistics through his forty or more articles, reviews, and five books: Middle High German Courtly Reader, English Verb, Five Clocks, Acoustic Phonetics, and Readings in Linguistics.

Digital objects note

This collection contains digital materials that are available in the APS Digital Library. Links to these materials are provided with context in the inventory of this finding aid. A general listing of digital objects may also be found here.

Collection Information

Physical description

12 linear feet.

Provenance

Custodial history:

Presented by Jeannie Mae Joos, 1983.

Processing information

Part of audio digitized in 2013 by Brian Carpenter. Audio series described and arranged in 2019 by Paul Sutherland. Other materials are unprocessed as of 2019.

Related material

This collection is an adjunct to the Archives of the Linguistic Society of America (Ms. Coll. 8).

Indexing Terms


Corporate Name(s)

  • American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on the Language Program
  • Center for Applied Linguistics.
  • Linguistic Society of America.

Genre(s)

  • Lectures.
  • Oral histories
  • Recordings.

Occupation(s)

  • Linguists.

Personal Name(s)

  • Bloch, Bernard, 1907-1965
  • Chomsky, Noam
  • Cowan, J. Milton
  • Garvin, Paul L.
  • Gumperz, John J. (John Joseph), 1922-2013
  • Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996
  • Halliday, M. A. K. (Michael Alexander Kirkwood)
  • Hamp, Eric P.
  • Haugen, Einar Ingvald
  • Hill, Archibald A.
  • Hockett, Charles L.
  • Joos, Martin
  • Lamb, Sydney M.
  • Saporta, Sol
  • Stockwell, Robert P.
  • Twaddell, W. F. (William Freeman)
  • Uhlenbeck, E. M.
  • Venezky, Richard L.
  • Wang, William S.-Y.
  • Winter, Werner

Subject(s)

  • Linguistics -- History.
  • Linguistics -- Societies, etc.

Collection overview

 Manuscripts
  14 Linear feet

As of 2019-02, manuscripts are approximately arranged by type, but otherwise unprocessed.

 Audio recordings
  2 Linear feet
 Subseries I. Linguistics conferences
  35 reel(s)
 Subseries II. Linguistics seminars at U.C. Berkeley
  33 reel(s)
 Subseries III. Miscellaneous
  8 reel(s)


Detailed Inventory

 Manuscripts
  14 Linear feet

As of 2019-02, manuscripts are approximately arranged by type, but otherwise unprocessed.

 Audio recordings
  2 Linear feet
 Subseries I. Linguistics conferences
  35 reel(s)
 Tape 0. [no title]
  1 reel(s)
 Tape 1. "SIL Group at Seattle -- Ben Elson etc."
1966-06-27 
 Tape 2. "M. Jacobs + F-K Li (Joos)"
1966-06-28 1 reel(s)
 Tape 3. "Jacobs + Li + Joos"
1966-06-28 1 reel(s)
 Tape 4. "Saporta/Carroll Reed (to be continued) - but it never was!"
1966-06-29 1 reel(s)
 Tape 5. "Mary Haas + Joos"
1966-07-06 1 reel(s)
 Tape 6. "M. Emeneau + Joos"
1966-07-06 1 reel(s)
 Tape 7. "D. Olmsead & Joos; most of 7B is Joos personal"
1966-07-07 1 reel(s)
 Tape 8. "Olmsted & Joos"
1966-07-07 1 reel(s)
 Tape 9. "Berkeley, Gumperz (+ Mrs. G.) & Joos"
1966-07-08 1 reel(s)
 Tape 10. "David Reed & Joos, Berkeley"
1966-07-09 1 reel(s)
 Tape 11. "Denzel Carr + Joos, Berkeley"
1966-07-09 1 reel(s)
 Tape 12. "Joseph H. Greenberg + M. Joos, Stanford U."
1966-07-10 1 reel(s)
 Tape 13. "Applegate (+ Joos)"
1966-07-23 1 reel(s)
 Tape 14. "William Bright (& Joos)"
1966-07-23 1 reel(s)
 Tape 15. "Stockwell & Joos (to be continued)"
1966-07-25 1 reel(s)
 Tape 16. "Harry Hoijer (& Joos)"
n.d. 1 reel(s)
 Tape 17A. "Hoijer"
1966-07-27 1 reel(s)
 Tape 18. "UCLA Conference on American Indian Languages - Harry Hoijer, Mary Haas"
1966-07-28 1 reel(s)
 Tape 19. "UCLA"
1966-07-28 1 reel(s)

Additional description on tape box: "Mary Haas (conclusion)"; "Yakov Malkiel"; "Karl Teeter scheduled discussion of Hoijer, Haas, Malkiel; developed as disc. of (1) History of Linguistics (2) History of Languages".

 Tape 20. "UCLA"
1966-07-28 1 reel(s)

Additional description on tape box: "W. Bright as chair: free discussion after Teeter; Werner Winter; Prof. Seiler; Mary Haas; Winter again; Teeter on all three. Adelaide Hahn, Mary Haas, Adj."; "Carl (& Florence) Voegelin, Carl reading".

 Tape 21. "UCLA"
1966-07-28 1 reel(s)

Additional description in tape box: "Carl Voegelin"; "Paul Garvin"; "Wallace Chafe".

 Tape 22. "UCLA"
1966-07-28 1 reel(s)

Additional description on tape: "Sydney Lamb"; "Paul Postal general discussion on Garvin, Chafe, continued on 23a".

 Tape 23. "Conclusion of 22B + discussions: McCawley, Voegelin, Chafe, Haas"
1966-07-28 1 reel(s)
 Tape 24. "LSA meeting at UCLA"
1966-07-30 1 reel(s)

Additional description on tape box: "James D. McCawley, The canonization of Edward Sapir"; "Kalon Kelley (UCLA) comments on n-arg feature systems".

 Tape 25. "Paul Garvin at UCLA"
1966-07-30 1 reel(s)
 Tape 26. "Werner Winter at UCLA"
1966-08-02 1 reel(s)
 Tape 27. "S. Newman at Albuquerque"
1966-08-06 1 reel(s)
 Tape 28. "at Norman SIL, Sarah Gudschinsky + Doris Bartholomew to middle of U. of Penn. period"
1966-08-08 1 reel(s)
 Tape 29. "Joseph Grimes at Norman, Okla" & "loc. cit. Barbara Erickson Hollenbach"
1966-08-08 1 reel(s)
 Tape 30. "Kenneth L. Pike at Norman, Okla."
1966-08-08 1 reel(s)
 Tape 31. "K L Pike cont. a little"
1966-08-08-1966-08-09 1 reel(s)
 Tape 32. "Velma Pickett at Norman" & "Eunice Pike"
1966-08-09 1 reel(s)
 Tape 33. "Evelyn Griset Pike" & "Robert Longacre"
1966-08-09 1 reel(s)
 Tape 34. "Y. R. Chao (& Joos) at U. of Minnesota"
1966-08-15 1 reel(s)
 Subseries II. Linguistics seminars at U.C. Berkeley
  33 reel(s)
 "Bloch, Bernard: The English Plural Morpheme"
1962-05-10 2 reel(s)
 "Bloch, Bernard: Postulates for Descriptive Linguistics"
1962-05-11 2 reel(s)
 "Chomsky, Noam: Formal Properties of Simple Families of Languages"
1964-02-27 1 reel(s)
 "Chomsky, Noam: Mathematical Linguistics - The Future"
1964-02-28 1 reel(s)
 "Chomsky, Noam: Mathematical Models in Linguistics I"
1964-02-26 1 reel(s)
 "Chomsky, Noam: Mathematical Models in Linguistics II"
1964-02-27 1 reel(s)
 "Chomsky, Noam: Outline of a Theory of Syntax"
1963-02-23 1 reel(s)
 "Chomsky, Noam: Prerequisites of Language Acquisition"
1964-02-26 2 reel(s)
 "Garvin, Paul: The Structure of Kutenai"
1961-12-13 2 reel(s)
 Tape 1
  
01 The Structure of Kutenai [1 of 4]
1961-12-1300:48:13

Access digital object:
http://diglib.amphilsoc.org/islandora/object/audio:20481

 The Structure of Kutenai [2 of 4]
1961-12-1300:10:55

Access digital object:
http://diglib.amphilsoc.org/islandora/object/audio:20482

 Tape 2
  
01 The Structure of Kutenai [3 of 4]
1961-12-1300:46:53

Access digital object:
https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/islandora/object/audio:20483

02 The Structure of Kutenai [4 of 4]
1961-12-1300:12:17

Access digital object:
https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/islandora/object/audio:20484

 "Gumperz, John J.: On the Ethnology of Linguistic Change"
1965-04-08 2 reel(s)
 "Haas, Mary: Prehistory of Languages"
1965-03-22 1 reel(s)
01 The Prehistory of Languages [1 of 2]
1965-03-2200:47:31

Access digital object:
http://diglib.amphilsoc.org/islandora/object/audio:20479

02 The Prehistory of Languages [2 of 2]
1965-03-2200:29:43

Access digital object:
http://diglib.amphilsoc.org/islandora/object/audio:20480

 "Halliday, M. A. K.: The Concept of Theme in English Grammar"
n.d. 2 reel(s)
 "Halliday, M. A. K.: Intonation and the Clause in English"
1964-05-28 1 reel(s)
 "Halliday, M. A. K.: Some Aspects of English Intonation"
1964-05-21 2 reel(s)
 "Haugen, Einar: Linguistics and Language Planning"
1964-05-20 1 reel(s)
 "Joos, Martin: Semology - Meaning Pattern Inside the Language"
1962-06-06 2 reel(s)
 "Lamb, Sidney M.: Notes on Generation, Concatenation, Alternation, Transformation, Realization, and Stratification"
1964-03-12 1 reel(s)
 "Saporta, Sol: Grammatical Models and Language Learning"
1963-04-24 1 reel(s)
 "Stockwell, Robert P.: The Aims of Grammar"
n.d. 1 reel(s)
 "Uhlenbeck, E. M.: Some Objections Against Transformational Theory"
n.d. 2 reel(s)
 "Venezky, Richard: Morphophemics and English Spelling-to-Sound Correspondences"
1964-11-19 1 reel(s)
 "Wang, William S-Y.: Phonological Rules and Distinctive Features"
1965-04-22 2 reel(s)
 "Winter, Werner: Form and Meaning in Morphological Analysis"
1962-02-16 1 reel(s)
 Subseries III. Miscellaneous
  8 reel(s)
 "The Betty Kennedy Show"
1969-09-08 1 reel(s) in 7-inch box 5-inch
 Joos, Martin.
"The Five Clocks"
1959-01-21 1 reel(s) 7-inch
 Tischler, Naomi.
"German 671"
n.d. 1 reel(s)
 Joos, Martin.
"Pitch terminal stress in English"
1957-08-09 2 reel(s) 7-inch
 Set of earphones
  
 "Untimely death read by" [illegible]
n.d. 1 reel(s) 5-inch
 Untitled tape
n.d. 1 reel(s) 7-inch
 Untitled tape [Pitch terminal stress in English?]
n.d. 1 reel(s) 7-inch