Jerry Norman (sinologist)
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| Born | July 16, 1936 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Died | July 7, 2012 (aged 75) Seattle, Washington, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (BA, MA, PhD) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Thesis | The Kienyang Dialect of Fukien (1969) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Academic advisors | Y. R. Chao | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Linguistics | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Notable students | W. South Coblin | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 羅杰瑞 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 罗杰瑞 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Manchu script | ᡝᠯᠪᡳᡥᡝ | ||||||||||||||||||
Jerry Lee Norman (July 16, 1936 – July 7, 2012) was an American sinologist and linguist known for his studies of varieties of Chinese, particularly Min varieties, and also of the Manchu language. Norman had a large impact on Chinese linguistics, and was largely responsible for establishing the importance of Min varieties in the reconstruction of Old Chinese.