Royal Skousen
Royal J. Skousen | |
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PhD) in Linguistics | |
| Occupation | Professor |
Royal Jon Skousen[1] (/ˈskaʊsən/; born August 5, 1945)[2] is an American linguist and retired professor of linguistics and English at Brigham Young University (BYU), where he is editor of the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project. He is "the leading expert on the textual history of the Book of Mormon"[3] and the founder of the analogical modeling approach to language modeling.
Early life
Skousen was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Leroy Bentley Skousen and Helen Louise Skousen, a Latter-day Saint family and was one of eleven children.[4] He is a nephew to W. Cleon Skousen.[5] He graduated from Sunset High School in Beaverton, Oregon.
Skousen's father unexpectedly died from lung cancer in 1964 despite never having smoked.[5]
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Career
Skousen was an assistant professor of linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin from the earning of his PhD until 1979, when he joined the faculty of BYU. He was also a visiting professor at the University of California, San Diego in 1981, a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Tampere in Finland in 1982, and a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, Netherlands, in 2001.[2] In 1999, BYU presented him the Karl G. Maeser Excellence in Research and Creative Arts Awards.[8]
Since 1999, Skousen has served as the president of the Utah Association of Scholars, an affiliate of the National Association of Scholars.[2][9] He has also been associate editor of the Journal of Quantitative Linguistics since 2003.[2]
Personal life
Having served his mission in Finland, Skousen is fluent in Finnish.[2]
Skousen married Sirkku Unelma Härkönen in 1968.[2] They have seven children and live in Orem, Utah.[7]
Works
Books
- Skousen, Royal (1975). Substantive Evidence in Phonology: The Evidence From Finnish and French. The Hague: Mouton.
- —— (1989). Analogical Modeling of Language. Dordrecht; Boston: ISBN 0-7923-0517-5.
- —— (1992). Analogy and Structure. Dordrecht; Boston; Norwell, MA: ISBN 0-7923-1935-4.
- —— (2001). The Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon: Typographical Facsimile of the Extant Text. Critical Text of the Book of Mormon. Vol. 1. Provo, Utah: ISBN 0-934893-04-7.
- —— (2001). The Printer's Manuscript of the Book of Mormon: Typographical Facsimile of the Entire Text in Two Parts. Critical Text of the Book of Mormon. Vol. 2. Provo, Utah: ISBN 0-934893-05-5. 2 vols.
- ——; Deryle Lonsdale; Dilworth B. Parkinson (2002). Analogical Modeling: An Exemplar-Based Approach to Language. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: ISBN 1-58811-302-7.
- —— (August 2004). Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon. Critical Text of the Book of Mormon. Vol. 4. Provo, Utah: ISBN 0-934893-07-1. 6 vols.
- —— (2009). The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text. New Haven, CT: ISBN 978-0-300-14218-1.
Articles and papers
- Skousen, Royal (Fall 1986). "Through a Glass Darkly: Trying to Understand the Scriptures". BYU Studies. 26 (4): 3–20.
- —— (Summer 1988). "[Book review of] The Book of Isaiah: A New Translation With Interpretive Keys From the Book of Mormon, by Avraham Gileadi". BYU Studies. 28 (3): 124–127.
- —— (Winter 1990). "Towards a Critical Edition of the Book of Mormon". BYU Studies. 30 (1): 41–69.
- —— (1992). "Book of Mormon Editions (1830-1981)". In ISBN 0-02-879600-4.
- —— (1992). "Book of Mormon Manuscripts". In ISBN 0-02-879600-4.
- —— (1992). "The Original Book of Mormon Transcript". In ISBN 0-87579-600-1.
- —— (May 1992). "Piecing Together the Original Manuscript". BYU Today. 46 (3): 18–24.
- —— (1994). "Textual Analysis of Zenos's Allegory of the Olive Tree". In ISBN 0-87579-767-9.
- —— (1994). "The Original Language of the Book of Mormon: Upstate New York Dialect, King James English, or Hebrew?". S2CID 162724231.
- —— (1994). "Critical Methodology and the Text of the Book of Mormon". S2CID 55305227.
- —— (1994). "The Bible II". JSTOR 44796970.
- —— (1997). "Translating the Book of Mormon: Evidence from the Original Manuscript". In ISBN 0-934893-25-X.
- —— (1998). "Joseph Smith's Translation of the Book of Mormon: Evidence for Tight Control of the Text". S2CID 164546481.
- —— (2000). "John Gilbert's 1892 Account of the 1830 Printing of the Book of Mormon". In ISBN 0-934893-45-4.
- —— (2000). "Introducing the Dead Sea Scrolls to an LDS Audience". S2CID 193638588.
- —— (2001). "Was the Path Nephi Saw "Strait and Narrow" or "Straight and Narrow"?". S2CID 127970445.
- —— (2002). "'Scourged' vs. 'Scorched' in Mosiah 17:13". Insights. 22 (3): 2–3.
- —— (2004). "The Pleading Bar of God". Insights. 24 (4): 2–3.
- —— (2005). "The Earliest Textual Sources for Joseph Smith's 'New Translation' of the King James Bible". S2CID 164523829.
- —— (2005). "The Archaic Vocabulary of the Book of Mormon". Insights. 25 (5): 2–6.
- —— (2006). "Conjectural Emendation in the Book of Mormon". .
- —— (2006). "Translating and Printing the Book of Mormon". Oliver Cowdery: Scribe, Elder, Witness. Provo, Utah: ISBN 0-8425-2661-7.
References
- ^ Middle name from doctoral dissertation listing at Google Books. See: "Substantive Evidence for Morphological and Phonetic Regularities in Phonology". Google Books. Retrieved 2009-07-02.
- ^ a b c d e f Skousen, Royal (January 17, 2007). "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Brigham Young University. Retrieved 2009-09-22.
- ^ "The Book of Mormon - Skousen, Royal; Smith, Joseph". Yale University Press. Retrieved 2009-09-22.
- ^ "Obituary: Helen Louise Skousen". Deseret News. Salt Lake City, Utah. October 11, 2007.
- ^ a b Skousen, Mark (January 28, 2003). "Tribute to My Uncle, W. Cleon Skousen". MSkousen.com. Retrieved 2014-09-05.
- ^ Skousen, Royal (Fall 1986). "Through a Glass Darkly: Trying to Understand the Scriptures". BYU Studies. 26 (4): 3. Retrieved 2009-09-22.
- ^ a b "Returned Missionaries S". Finnish Mission Alumni Website (Before 2003). Retrieved 2009-09-22.
- ^ "Faculty and Staff Honored". BYU Magazine. Winter 1999. Retrieved 2009-09-22.
- ^ "Affiliates R-V". National Association of Scholars. Retrieved 2009-09-22.
External links
- "Royal Skousen FAIR Interview" video (Discussing the Italics in the KJV Bible and Book of Mormon) on YouTube
- Skousen speaking on "The Critical Text Project of the Book of Mormon" (video and audio)
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