Columbia University Department of Slavic Languages Records, 1946-1956.

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Columbia University Department of Slavic Languages Records, 1946-1956.

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Correspondence of linguist Roman Jakobson with Professor Ernest Simmons of Columbia University's Department of Slavic Languages. The letters discuss Jakobson's years as a teacher at Columbia University, and Slavic studies in the United States.

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Jacobson, Roma 1896-1982.

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Columbia University. Department of Slavic Languages

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Roman Jacobson (1896-1982) was a leading figure of the Moscow Linguistic Circle. In 1920, he relocated to Prague and became one of the founders of the "Prague school of linguistic theory". He worked at Harvard University from 1949 until 1960s. In his last decade he maintained an office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was an honorary Professor Emeritus. Ernest J. Simmons, Professor of Russian Literature and Chairman of the Department of Slavic Langua...

Simmons, Ernest.

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