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Stanford Carmack

About Stanford Carmack

Stanford Carmack has a linguistics and a law degree from Stanford University as well as a doctorate in Hispanic Languages and Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara, specializing in historical syntax and textual analysis. He currently researches Book of Mormon syntax and lexis as they relate to English usage and contributes to aspects of the Book of Mormon critical text project carried out by Royal Skousen.

A Plain Exposition of Book of Mormon English by Means of Short Questions and Informed Answers

by Stanford Carmack | Nov 15, 2024 | 6 comments

A Comparison of the Book of Mormon’s Subordinate That Usage

by Stanford Carmack | Jan 7, 2022 | 4 comments

The Book of Mormon’s Complex Finite Cause Syntax

by Stanford Carmack | Nov 26, 2021 | 11 comments

Personal Relative Pronoun Usage in the Book of Mormon: An Important Authorship Diagnostic

by Stanford Carmack | Nov 12, 2021 | 8 comments

Pitfalls of the Ngram Viewer

by Stanford Carmack | Mar 27, 2020 | 7 comments

Bad Grammar in the Book of Mormon Found in Early English Bibles

by Stanford Carmack | Feb 7, 2020 | 6 comments

Is the Book of Mormon a Pseudo-Archaic Text?

by Stanford Carmack | Mar 16, 2018 | 16 comments

Barlow on Book of Mormon Language: An Examination of Some Strained Grammar

by Stanford Carmack | Nov 17, 2017 | 12 comments

On Doctrine and Covenants Language and the 1833 Plot of Zion

by Stanford Carmack | Sep 1, 2017 | 10 comments

How Joseph Smith’s Grammar Differed from Book of Mormon Grammar: Evidence from the 1832 History

by Stanford Carmack | Jun 9, 2017 | 22 comments

The Case of Plural Was in the Earliest Text

by Stanford Carmack | Jan 15, 2016 | 6 comments

The Case of the {-th} Plural in the Earliest Text

by Stanford Carmack | Jan 15, 2016 | 5 comments

Joseph Smith Read the Words

by Stanford Carmack | Jan 1, 2016 | 32 comments

The More Part of the Book of Mormon Is Early Modern English

by Stanford Carmack | Jan 1, 2016 | 7 comments

Why the Oxford English Dictionary (and not Webster’s 1828)

by Stanford Carmack | May 1, 2015 | 27 comments

The Implications of Past-Tense Syntax in the Book of Mormon

by Stanford Carmack | Feb 27, 2015 | 43 comments

What Command Syntax Tells Us About Book of Mormon Authorship

by Stanford Carmack | Dec 26, 2014 | 26 comments

A Look at Some “Nonstandard” Book of Mormon Grammar

by Stanford Carmack | Aug 15, 2014 | 59 comments

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