RMM04901.xml Guide to the R. B. Jones papers. Jones, R. B. papers Compiled by Luke Benes Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library May 2004

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Finding aid encoded by Ann Hubert, May 2004 2007-05-29 converted from EAD 1.0 to EAD 2002 Guide to the R. B. Jones Papers Collection Number: 4901 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu Luke Benes March 1995 Ann Hubert, May 2004 Jude Corina, February 2018 © 2003 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY R. B. Jones papers. 4901 R. B., Jones 1920- 3.6 cubic ft. Files, papers, audiodiscs, audiotapes. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Subject files and working papers pertaining to the study of southeast Asian languages; also, audiodiscs and audiotapes. Collection material in English BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor, Cornell University.

R. B. Jones was a peer of John Echols and developed the mainland Southeast Asia Program at Cornell. He was a major contributor to the nation's teaching capacity in Burmese, Thai, and Vietnamese languages. His original field is in Karen languages.

 COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Subject files and working papers pertaining to the study of southeast Asian languages; also, audiodiscs and audiotapes.

 SUBJECTS Names: Jones, R. B., 1920- Echols, John M. (John Minor), 1912-1982 Cornell University--Faculty. Cornell University. Southeast Asia Program. Subjects: Burmese language. Vietnamese language. Karen language. Japanese language. INFORMATION FOR USERS Restrictions on Use:

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 CONTAINER LIST Papers 1 1 Karen Papers (Keyes) [Karen History in Thai and Ethic Relations] 1 2 Karen Pronunciation Charts 1 3 Karen Tones (Problems with) 1 4 Karen Working Notes 1 5 Karen Panel (Letters regarding the place of the Karen in Asia) 1 6 Karen Correspondence 1 7 Intro. to Karen and Info. of Syo Dialect 1 8 R. Burling on Karen 1 9 Mason's Grammar 1 10 Phonetic Chart and Tone Info. 1 11 Phonetic Charts 1 12 Luce Word List 1 13 Luce-Karen-Chin-Burma 1 14 Karen (Shaler: Sino-Tibetan, 1974) 1 15 Karen Drum 1 16 Karen Drum 2 1 17 Sgaw Writing System 1 18 Key to Karen Writing and Kinship System 1 19 Sketches of Pa-O Grammar (Hacket 1954) 1 20 Tibeto-Burmese (Lepcha Relationships) 1 21 Palaychi 1 22 Yao-Miao (Purnell) 1 23 Proto-Vietnamoung 1 24 Cambodian Writing System 1 25 Burmese Grammar 1 26 Vietnamese-Muong 1 27 Hari-Mid. Vietnamese -de Rates 1 28 Seminar Papers of Tran Trong Hai (on Vietnam) 1 29 Cambodian Notes 1 30 Comabodian Notes 2 1 31 Mon-Khmer Articles (Sre and Palauna) 1 32 Burma Inscriptions (Payan, Dhammayan, Gyi Pilar, and Pyu) 1 33 Burmese 1 34 Burmese Kinship 1 35 Burmese Semester 1976 - Karen/Valley Forge 1 36 Karen Linguistic Affiliation 2 1 Burmese 2 2 Prolegomena to a Homology of Old Burmese 2 3 Two Methods of Interpreting Panini 2 4 Types of Lingusitic Structure - Hass 2 5 Lang Structure (Finnish, Hungarian) 2 6 Sea Languages 2 7 Sea Languages 2 8 Phunoi 2 9 Lahu (Verb Concatenation) 2 10 GMC (Etomology, Pie Phonology, Morphology) 2 11 Nasu 2 12 Hani 2 13 Sani 2 14 Generative Sketch on Burmese 2 15 Proto Chinese (History) 2 16 Lahu and Proto-Lio-Burmese 2 17 Akha 2 18 Akha 2 19 Transformal Analysis of tone in verb system of Zahao (Laizo) Chin - Thesis 2 20 Thai Discourse - Diller 2 21 Thai Discourse Analysis - Final Report 2 22 Thai Discourse - Bibliography 2 23 Parataxis Diagrams 2 24 Final Report Notes (Discourse, Principal of Chaloem at School) 2 25 Discourse Analysis of Japanese and Thai 2 26 Sino-Tibetan Conference - Contents Lists 2 27 Fifth Conference of Sino-Tibetan Lang 2 28 Sixth Conference of Sino-Tibetan Lang 2 29 Eighth Conference of Sino-Tibetan Lang 2 30 Eleventh Conference of Sino-Tibetan Lang 2 31 Thirteenth Conference of Sino-Tibetan Lang 2 32 Working Papers in Linguistics 2 33 James Matisoff (Lahu and Lolo) 2 34 William Gedney 2 35 Historical Place of Jinghpaw 3 1 Lolo 3 2 Tibetan Tones 3 3 Tonal System 3 4 Proto-Yiang 3 5 Miao-Yao 3 6 Archaic Chinese 3 7 Chinese 3 8 Chinese Dialects 3 9 Cantonese 3 10 Maru Fonal Stops 3 11 Arkanese Vowels 3 12 Performativity and Conjoining 3 13 Burmese Reading Course 3 14 Austro-Thai 3 15 Dental Suffixes 3 16 Syntactic Reconstruction 3 17 Misc. Burmese 3 18 Misc. Burmese 3 19 Correspondence regarding Karen Thesaurus/Dictionary 3 20 Phonetic Charts 3 21 Outline of Burmese Grammar 3 22 Sino Tibetan 3 23 Burmese Translation (Possible Temple Inscriptions) 3 24 Fiend Notes 3 25 Fiend Notes 3 26 Fiend Notes 3 27 Burmese Dialects 3 28 Misc. Information 3 29 Misc. Information 3 30 Misc. Information 3 31 Misc. Information 4 Phonetic Charts 5 Phonodiscs, Japanese and Karen 5 Regional Science Correspondence; 1983, 1986 6 1 1912 Etude sur la phonetique historique de la langue annamite 6 2 1966 Study in Po-Ai dialects, notes and paper 6 3 1965 Tai alphabet prepared by Coedes and word lists (Lefevre-Pontalis) 6 4 Undated Elemental Burmese (U Khin) 6 5 1985 Minzu Yuwen Vol. 1-5 6 6 1983-1986 Minzu Yuwen Vol. 3 (1983), Vol 2-6 (1984), Vol. 1 (1986) 6 7 1982-02 Derung language treatise 6 8 1965 Robert A. Hall's publications 6 9 Undated Old Mon (Burmese) glossary 6 10 1976-04 Working papers in phonetics and phonology vol.1 no.1 6 11 Undated Indic scripts (Sgaw and Shan) photocopy 6 12 Undated Proto-Burmese material 6 13 1981 A comparative word-list of old Burmese, Chinese, and Tibetan 6 14 1959-06 Journal of the Burma research society 6 15 Undated Sino-Tibetan and Burmese vocabulary and paper 6 16 1987-1989 Consonant mergers Anthony V. N. Diller 6 17 1955-1956 Burmese-Mon alphabet 6 18 1966 A handbook of Asian scripts 6 19 1979 Indic alphabets 6 20 1987-08-1987-10 The center for Burma studies, newsletter and bulletin 6 21 1955 Thai word list Brian Hartnell 6 22 1963 Urom Warofamasikkhadit Papers 6 23 1979 Ethnic adaptation and identity, the Karen on the Thai frontier with Burma 6 24 1990 Army intensive Japanese school day 6 25 Undated Tai Mao 6 26 1957-11-18 La langue et la culture Lao 6 27 1907-1910 Black Tai, Tho (Black, White), Riviere Claire 6 28 1975 Siam dialects 6 29 Undated Lung-Chow (Li) 6 30 Undated Thai comparative work 6 31 1967-1973 Thai dialects comparative workand articles 7 1 1966 Tho Syntax (Day), (Lagua, Lao Blanc) 7 2 1974 Daic, Introduction to Sino-Tibetan, Robert Shafer 7 3 Undated Tai Tones Diagrams 7 4 1980-1984 Kam, Mu Lam, Minzu Yuwen Vol. 2 (1980), Vol. 4 (1982), Vol. 1,2,5,6 (1983), Vol. 1 (1984) 7 5 1982-08 Hainan Li (Shibel, Meriggi) 7 6 1983 Hainan Be, Minzu Yuwen Vol. 4 (1983) 7 7 1982 Li, White Thai, Nung (F) 7 8 1975 Tai Nua, Harris 7 9 1965 Lu, Saek 7 10 1967-1980 Li, T'en, Fang-Kuei Li 7 11 1970 Red, Black, White Tai, Gedney 7 12 1963 White Tai, Donaldson 7 13 1966 Nung 7 14 1981-05-23 Nung Synthax, Freiberger 7 15 1959-03-17 Tho (Lang Son), Dictionary (Day), Comparative Papers 7 16 1959-02 Anthropological Linguistics Vol. 1 No. 2 7 17 Undated Languages and dialects of China 7 18 1973-10 Ning, Ming, Gedney 7 19 1956 Wu-Ming, Li 7 20 1955-05 Laotian (Luang Prabang), Kieley 7 21 1964 Thai comparative studies 7 22 Undated The question of Karen linguistic affiliation 7 23 Undated Karen lessons Sgaw 7 24 1945-05 The Karens of Burma, Marshall 7 25 1955 The golden book 7 26 1979-01 Sgaw Karen letters, elementary children, new readers 7 27 Undated Sonagrams 7 28 1965 Worksheets for a first course in transformational synthax 7 29 1994 Grammaticalization and syntactic change, Diller 7 30 1993-09-23 In search of a Tai syntactic change 7 31 1994-01 Bulletin of Burma studies group No. 51 7 32 1972-12 The underground transformer, Noss 7 33 1952-06-20 An outline for metalinguistic analysis, Henry L. Smith Jr. 7 34 1973-05 Pre-standard old Burmese 1 of 2

Stone inscriptions, ink glosses, and votive tablets

 7 35 1973-05 Pre-standard old Burmese 2 of 2

Stone inscriptions, ink glosses, and votive tablets

 7 36 Undated Photos and slides from Lokatheikpan Temple, Burma 8 1 Undated Loan words, paper by R.B. Jones Jr. 8 2 1970, 1976 Asian language journals 8 3 1960-1970 Uncommonly taught languages 8 4 1974 Language conferences 8 5 Fall 1974 Survey for an appropriate program of research (southeast asian languages) 8 6 1959-12-17-1959-12-18 Conference on a survey of personnel, materials, and programs for the teaching of Southeast Asian languages, determination of needs and recommendations for an appropriate program of research 8 7 1960 Karen, descriptive and comparative studies with texts, R.B. Jones Jr. 8 8 1976-06 Final report, discourse analysis of Japanese and Thai 8 9 Undated Japanese 8 10 1972-1973 Thai cultural reader reviews 8 11 1942-1979 Language learning and interpreting (Dept. of State) 8 12 1950 Analysis of culture 8 13 1961 Karen linguistic studies, R.B. Jones Jr. 8 14 1970 Comparative method L. 502, Tai 8 15 Undated Chuang 8 16 Undated Sui 8 17 Undated Kam dictionary 8 18 1976-06 Japanese discourse 8 19 Undated Various notes 8 20 1958-1973 Relations of Cambodia 8 21 Undated Poetry notes 8 22 Undated Thai writing system 8 23 Undated Pa-Po 8 24 1940-1970 Tone 9 1 1988 Proto-Burmese 9 2 Undated Vocabulary charts 9 3 1972-1974 Linguistic Articles 9 4 1976-1987 Bisu articles 9 5 Undated Megyaw Hpun 9 6 1988 Bisu 9 7 Undated Proto-Burmese 9 8 1988, undated Dialects of Burma tables, Taylor 9 9 1968-1970, 1980 Reviews 9 10 1960 Laryngeals and the development of tones in Karen, R.B. Jones Jr. 9 11 1958, 1966, 1968 Correspondence 9 12 Undated Note Thai dialect maps 9 13 Undated Roogrian Chaleemsaat 9 14 Undated Conversation with Khanchoy Bunpan 9 15 Undated Thai tone maps and tables 9 16 1976 On the reality of reconstructed languages 9 17 1965-1978 Assorted articles 9 18 1971 Lolo-Burmese 9 19 1951 A grammar of the Burmese language, Judson 9 20 1971, undated Library, romanization, Burmese 9 21 1981 Haurgood, Creaky tone, Burmese 9 22 1969-1975 Papers and reviews sent for publishing 9 23 1980-1982 Pitch register 9 24 1978-1989 Proto-Burmese test of reconstruction 9 25 1953-1960 Correspondence ACLS 9 26 1972-1977, 1984 Articles and notes 10 1 Undated Pu-Yi (Kwei-chow) dialect atlas 1 of 2 10 2 Undated Pu-Yi (Kwei-chow) dialect atlas 2 of 2 10 3 1949-1952, 1959 Ling. notes 10 4 1951 Outline of Thai grammar 10 5 1950 Four articles on metalinguistics 10 6 1973 Bibliographies 10 7 1962-01 Ling. 271-(2) Sea 10 8 1958 Conversations for foreign students of English 10 9 Undated Studies on Dempwolff, Lopez 10 10 1955, 1959, 1962-1964 Vietnamese and Thai articles 10 11 Undated Classics 196: Indo-European grammar 10 12 1978-1980 Special papers, voice production 10 13 1977-1978, 1983 Tone 10 14 1974-1981 Tone Course 10 15 1957-1969 Bibliography, comparativge method 10 16 1946-1981 Comparative method articles 10 17 Undated Studies in Thai dialectology, Egerod 10 18 1971 Workbook in comparative reconstruction 10 19 1985 Ling. 404 course problem Keresan 10 20 1974 Introductory workbook in historical phonology, Columbus 10 21 1975 Misc. notes and exercises 10 22 Undated Lu, Tai, Li 10 23 Undated Future directions in comparative Tai linguistics, Gedney 10 24 Fall 1985 Laryngeal features and tone development, Li 10 25 1975 A new look at the history and classification of the Tai languages, Chamberlain 10 26 1966-02 Chinese and Thai: morpheme correspondences, draft 5 11 Karen Language Card Files 12 Karen Language Card Files 14 1 Undated Sonagrams 14 2 1957 Sgaw Karen Lessons 2, Ballard 14 3 1957 Sgaw Karen Lessons 1, Ballard 14 4 1966 Pwo Karen lessons, Morris 14 5 1981-1982 Pwo Karen dictionary J-Y 14 6 1981-1982 Pwo Karen dictionary A-I 14 7 Undated Vocabulary charts 14 8 Undated Linguistic notes 14 9 1958-1975 Reprints 14 10 Undated Portfolio of language exercises and notes 14 11 1979 Notes 14 12 1973-1974 Thai dialects , papers and correspondence 14 13 Undated Myang dialect (Mundhenk) 14 14 Undated Burmese literature draft for submission to Litterature d'Oriente 14 15 1966 Essays offered to G.H. Luce Vol. 1 14 16 1933 Vocabulaire francais, Thay blanc et elements de grammaire Vol. 1 & 2 14 17 1952 Po-Ai, Pu-Yi 14 18 1970 Kam 14 19 1961-1963, 1972 Chuang (Kwansi), Serdychenko (Diller) 14 20 1981 Ge Lao, Minzu Yuwen Vol. 4 14 21 Undated Vocabulary charts 14 22 Undated Vocabulary charts 14 Undated Notebook 15 1957-1958 College notebooks and fieldnotes 15 1951 The ancient Khmer Empire

Issued as volume 41, part 1, of the transactions of the American Philosophical Society

 Audio material tr-6996 Examples from Jane Kielgs MA Thesis tr-7997 Laotian (BASSAC Dialect) tr-6998 Lautian (BASIC Dialects) tr-6999 Burmese Broadcast tr-7000 Karen Bassein Phu Dialect tr-7001 Northern Thai tr-7002 Thai Stress tr-7003 Thai Poetry tr-7004 Thai Poetry 2 tr-7005 Thai Poetry 3 tr-7006 Dunn Tape tr-7007 Karen tr-7008 Examples from Jane Kielgs MA Thesis (Bk) tr-7009 Converstaion: Mailmein Phokaren tr-7010 Stories tr-7011 Laos I tr-7012 Laos II tr-7013 Japanese and Karen Record 13 tr-16735 Undated Mopwa Audiocassette 13 tr-16736 Undated BWE light/heavy Audiocassette 13 tr-16737 Undated Jean Donaldson's tape Audiocassette 13 tr-16738 Undated RBJ - English resonants Audiocassette 13 tr-16739 Undated Unlabeled tape Audiocassette 13 tr-16740 Undated Unlabeled tape Audiocassette 13 tr-16741-16744 Undated Candid tape recordings of casual conversations and events

Manora, Thai, Pali

 Audiocassette 13 tr-16745 Undated British English Audiocassette 13 tr-16746 Undated Thai dialects Audiotape reel 13 tr-16747 Undated Unlabeled tape Audiotape reel 13 tr-16748 Undated BWE Karen - Naw Tha Saw

Light/heavy consonant contrasts (using English monosyllables)

 Audiotape reel 13 tr-16749 Undated Mopwa Karen (Palaychi) Audiotape reel

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