James Matisoff

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James Matisoff is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University

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#260

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#161

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James Matisoff's Degrees

PhD Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
Masters Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Linguistics University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, James Alan Matisoff is 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.

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Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman: System and Philosophy of Sino-Tibetan Reconstruction (2003) (243)
The grammar of Lahu (1978) (175)
Sino-Tibetan Linguistics: Present State and Future Prospects (1991) (107)
Areal and universal dimensions of grammatization in Lahu (1991) (99)
Lahu Nominalization, Relativization, and Genitivization (1972) (78)
Glottal Dissimilation and the Lahu High-Rising Tone: A Tonogenetic Case-Study (1970) (77)
On megalocomparison (2015) (70)
Variational semantics in Tibeto-Burman : the "organic" approach to linguistic comparison (1980) (59)
Verb concatenation in lahu: The syntax and semantics of ‘simple’ juxtaposition (1969) (51)
Hearts and minds in South-East asian languages and english : an essay in the comparative lexical semantics of psycho-collocations (1986) (48)
The Loloish Tonal Split Revisited (1972) (41)
Proto Lolo-Burmese (1968) (38)
Blessings, Curses, Hopes, and Fears: Psycho-Ostensive Expressions in Yiddish (1979) (35)
The dictionary of Lahu (1988) (32)
God and the Sino-Tibetan Copula with some good news concerning Selected Tibeto-Burman Rhymes (1985) (31)
Sound symbolism: Tone, intonation, and sound symbolism in Lahu: loading the syllable canon (1995) (30)
Variational Semantics In Tibeto-Burman (1978) (28)
Lahu Causative Constructions: Case Hierarchies and the Morphology/Syntax Cycle in a Tibeto-Burman Perspective (1976) (26)
Sketch of Thulung Grammar, with Three Texts and a Glossary (1981) (25)
Languages and dialects of Tibeto-Burman (1996) (21)
Linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area : the state of the art ; papers presented to Paul K. Benedict for his 71st birthday (1985) (20)
Sino-Tibetan: Inspection of a Conspectus@@@Sino-Tibetan, a Conspectus (1974) (20)
The tones of jinghpaw and lolo-burmese: Common origin vs. independent development (1974) (18)
Bulging Monosyllables: Areal Tendencies in Southeast Asian Diachrony (1990) (17)
Sino-Tibetan numeral systems : prefixes, protoforms and problems (1997) (17)
Selected Papers On Comparative Tai Studies (1991) (14)
The languages and dialects of Tibeto-Burman : an alphabetic/genetic listing, with some prefatory remarks on ethnonymic and glossonymic complications (1980) (13)
Merit and the Millennium: Routine and Crisis in the Ritual Lives of the Lahu People (2003) (13)
On the Demise of the Proto-Tibeto-Burman Mid Vowels (2015) (13)
An introduction to the Burmese writing system (1972) (13)
New horizons in Tibeto-Burman morphosyntax (1995) (12)
On ‘Sino-Bodic’ and other symptoms of neosubgroupitis1 (2000) (12)
1 " Brightening " and the place of Xixia ( Tangut ) in the Qiangic branch of Tibeto-Burman (2004) (12)
Mpi and Lolo-Burmese microlinguistics (1978) (11)
Areal semantics - Is there such a thing? (2004) (10)
Re-examining the genetic position of Jingpho: Putting flesh on the bones of the Jingpho/Luish relationship (2013) (10)
English-Lahu Lexicon (2006) (8)
Bibliography and Index of Mainland Southeast Asian Languages and Linguistics (1986) (8)
The interest of Zhangzhung for comparative Tibeto-Burman (2001) (7)
The Tibeto-Burman Reproductive System: Toward an Etymological Thesaurus (2008) (6)
A grammar of the Lahu language (1967) (6)
Stars, Moon, and Spirits:Bright Beings of the Night in Sino-Tibetan (1980) (6)
An Extrusional Approach to *p-/w- Variation in Sino-Tibetan (2000) (5)
Stable Roots in Sino-Tibetan/Tibeto-Burman (2009) (5)
Lahu bilingual humor (1969) (5)
Proto-Karen: A Reanalysis.@@@Lahu and Proto-Lolo-Burmese. (1970) (5)
“Stung by a bee, you fear a fly”: Areal and universal aspects of Lahu proverbial wisdom* (2011) (4)
Sino-Tibetan Palatal Suffixes Revisited (1995) (4)
The Language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo) Vol. I: Grammar [Book Review] (2008) (4)
Tangkhul Naga and Comparative Tibeto-Burman (1972) (4)
Translucent insights: a look at Proto-Sino-Tibetan through Gordon H. Luce's Comparative word-list (1983) (3)
Genetic relationship, diffusion and typological similarities of East & Southeast Asian languages : papers for the 1st Japan-US Joint Seminar on East & Southeast Asian Linguistics (1976) (3)
Much Adu About Something: Extrusional Labiovelors in a Northern Yi Patois (2006) (3)
CONJUGAL BLISS: an Indo-Aryan Word-family pair / yoke / join in Tibeto-Burman (1982) (3)
Current Trends in Linguistics: Linguistics in East Asia and South East Asia. Edited by Thomas A. Sebeok. The Hague: Mouton, 1967. Volume II, xix, 979 pp. Index. 150 Dutch Guilders. (1969) (2)
Protean Prosodies: Alfons Weidert's Tibeto-Burman Tonology@@@Tibeto-Burman Tonology (1994) (2)
Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus Monograph Series (1996) (2)
Blessings, Curses, Hopes, and Fears (2000) (2)
The Annual Sino-Tibetan Conferences: The First Five Years, 1968-1972. (1973) (2)
The structure of the Hsi-hsia (Tangut) characters (1979) (1)
On the expression of spatial concepts in Lahu (2017) (1)
Mary R. Haas (2015) (1)
CONTRAVERSIONS JEWS AND OTHER DIFFERENCES (2002) (1)
The dinguist’s dilemma: Regular and sporadic l/d interchange in Sino-Tibetan and elsewhere (2013) (1)
The so-called prefixes of Tibeto-Burman, and why they are so called (2017) (1)
Chinese . By Jerry Norman. Cambridge Language Surveys. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xii, 292 pp. $54.50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). (1989) (0)
Stars, Moon, and Spirits (1980) (0)
Akha-English Dictionary. Compiled by Paul Lewis. Ithaca: Cornell University, 1968. Southeast Asia Program, Data Paper Number 70. xxvi, 363 pp. Foreward, Preface, Appendices. $3.50. (1969) (0)
A Grammar of Mongsen Ao [Book Review] (2011) (0)
Aspects of aspect, with special reference to Lahu and Hebrew (1998) (0)
Areal and Universal Issues in Plant and Animal Nomenclature (2011) (0)
Benedict goes on to give the two most “ striking ” lexical examples of this special relationship , distinctive roots for SUN and FIRE (2012) (0)
Trickster and the Village Women: A Psychosymbolic Discourse Analysis of a Lahu Picaresque Story (1979) (0)
Sino-Tibetan Palatal SuMxes Revisited (2009) (0)
Linguistics: A Contribution to the General Theory of Comparative Linguistics. RADOSLAV KATIČIC (1972) (0)
汉藏语研究四十年 : 第40届国际汉藏语言曁语言学会议论文集 = Forty years of Sino-Tibetan language studies : proceedings of ICSTLL-40 (2010) (0)
Small wonder that after only five years their origins seem shrouded in ob (2016) (0)
G. H Luce: Phases of Pre-Pagan Burma: languages and history.2 vols . (School of Oriental and African Studies.) xv, 185 pp.; [ix], [137] pp., 100 plates. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. £95. (1989) (0)
Publications Received (1968) (0)
Scouring the world for transgenetic interrelationships (2019) (0)
Window onto a Vanished World: Lahu texts from Thailand in the 1960’s (2022) (0)
The dinguist’s dilemma (2013) (0)
William J. Gedney's Concise Saek-English English-Saek Lexicon (2012) (0)
Auxiliary Verbs in Myang of Northern Thailand. (1970) (0)
Morphosemantics of the Proto-Tibeto-Burman *a- prefix: glottal and nasal complications (with an Appendix offering analogies with the English preformative a-) (2018) (0)
Back matter for: Linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area: The state of the art. Papers presented to Paul K. Benedict for his 71st birthday (1985) (0)
The Editor's Department (2015) (0)
The interest of Zhangzhung for comparative (2000) (0)
Remembering Mary Haas' Work on Thai (1996) (0)
Papers on Tibeto-Burman historical and comparative linguistics from the second annual meeting on Sino-Tibetan Reconstruction (1971) (0)

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