James Matisoff
James Matisoff | |||||||
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| Born | James Alan Matisoff July 14, 1937 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | ||||||
| Spouse | Susan Matisoff | ||||||
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| Education | |||||||
| Thesis | A Grammar of the Lahu Language (1967) | ||||||
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| Discipline | Linguist | ||||||
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley | ||||||
| Main interests | Sino-Tibetan languages | ||||||
| Notable works | Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) | ||||||
| Notable ideas | Tonogenesis, rhinoglottophilia, sesquisyllables | ||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 馬蒂索夫/馬提索夫 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 马蒂索夫/马提索夫 | ||||||
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James Alan Matisoff (simplified Chinese: 马蒂索夫; traditional Chinese: 馬蒂索夫; pinyin: Mǎdìsuǒfū or simplified Chinese: 马提索夫; traditional Chinese: 馬提索夫; pinyin: Mǎtísuǒfū; born July 14, 1937) is an American linguist. He is a professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a noted authority on Tibeto-Burman languages and other languages of mainland Southeast Asia.