James A Matisoff

Dados Biográficos

ID199616
NOMEJames A Matisoff
PRENOMESJames A
SOBRENOMEMatisoff
ASSINATURAMATISOFF J A
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of California, Berkeley
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS39
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES94
TOTAL COMO AUTOR39
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1968
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2023
ÍNDICE H4

  • Paddy-field dike

    Open AccessJames A MatisoffARTICLELinguistics of the Tibeto-Burman…2023

    This brief note proposes a new Proto-Sino-Tibetan etymon for FIELD-DIKE, the dike between irrigated paddy fields, and provides an etymology relating Chinese and Lahu forms. It also discusses related etymologies with similar rhymes in Lahu and their reflexes in Burmese. There is also a postscript on the Written Burmese rhyme -añ

  • Scouring the world for transgenetic interrelationships

    James A MatisoffARTICLEDiachronica2019

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  • Stung by a bee, you fear a fly

    Open AccessJames A MatisoffARTICLEBulletin of the School of…2011Referências: 1

    qhɔ-qhô ί-kâʔ cɔ̀, Lâhō tɔ̂-mɔ̂cɔ̀.The mountains have [springs of] water; the Lahu have proverbs. (#1012)Proverbs are a particularly interesting type of sentential formulaic expression. This paper analyses a rich corpus of proverbs in Lahu, a language of the Central Loloish branch of Tibeto-Burman, in terms of both their syntactic structure and their semantic content. Overwhelmingly bipartite in form, these proverbs reflect cultural and moral pre…

  • Response to Laurent Sagart’s review of Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman

    James A MatisoffARTICLEDiachronica2007

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  • Merit and the Millennium

    James A Matisoff, Anthony R WalkerARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2004Citada por: 3

  • Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman

    James A MatisoffBOOKHandbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman2003

    LoC Class: PL3553, LoC Subject Headings: Tibeto-Burman languages, Tibeto-Burman languages--Grammar, Reconstruction (Linguistics

  • Blessings, Curses, Hopes and Fears

    Űlker Vancı Osam, Ülker Vanci-Osam et al.ARTICLEAsian Folklore Studies2002

    Reviewed Work: Blessings, Curses, Hopes and Fears: Psycho-Ostensive Expressions in Yiddish (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences) by James A. Matisoff Review by: Ülker Vanci-Osam. Due to copyright restrictions, the access to the publisher version (published version) of this article is only available via subscription. You may click URI (with DOI: 0.2307/1178991) and have access to the Publisher Version of this article through the publisher w…

  • Blessings, Curses, Hopes, and Fears

    James A MatisoffBOOKBlessings, Curses, Hopes, and Fears2000

    In this delightful book, the author enumerates and classifies the formulas Yiddish speakers use to express their emotions. It is a rarity among scholarly books, for it brings joy while it teaches; it makes us smile, sometimes roar with laughter, while it develops the most rigorous linguistic argumentation. The author analyzes the many kinds of Yiddish "psycho-ostensives"—ranging from blessings and thanks to lamentations and curses. To a person wh…

  • On 'Sino-Bodic' and other symptoms of neosubgroupitis

    Open AccessJames A MatisoffARTICLEBulletin of the School of…2000Citada por: 4Referências: 20

    The higher-order subgrouping of Tibeto-Burman has been recently up for debate. The modern era of TB/Sino-Tibetan subgrouping began with Benedict 1972 (henceforth /STC), where that great comparativist refrained from offering aStammbaumof the conventional type, leaving several individual languages and language groups unclassified, and placing Jingpho at the centre of diversity of the whole vast TB family (see Fig. 1.) Despite several peculiarities,…

  • Mary R. Haas

    Victor Golla, James A Matisoff et al.ARTICLELanguage1997

    MARY R. HAAS Mary Haas, one of Edward Sapir's last surviving students, the guiding spirit of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, for nearly three decades, and the thirty-ninth president of the Linguistic Society of America (1963), died at her home in Berkeley on May 17, 1996. She was 86 and had been in declining health for several years. Haas was born in Richmond, Indiana, on January 23, 1910, into a Pennsylvania German family …

  • Cross-Cultural Pragmatics

    James A Matisoff, A WierzbickaREVIEWLanguage1996

    This book challenges the approaches to human interaction based on supposedly universal 'maxims of conversation' and 'principles of politeness,' which fly in the face of reality as experienced by millions of people crossing language boundaries (refugees, immigrants, etc.) and which cannot help in the practical tasks of cross-cultural communication and education. In contrast to such approaches, this book is both theoretical and practical: it shows …

  • Sound symbolism

    Open AccessHaruo Aoki, Jr William H Jacobsen et al.BOOKSound Symbolism1995

    Sound symbolism is the study of the relationship between the sound of an utterance and its meaning. In this interdisciplinary collection of new studies, twenty-four leading scholars discuss the role of sound symbolism in a theory of language. They consider sound symbolic processes in a wide range of languages from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and North and South America. Beginning with an evocative typology of sound symbolic processes, they g…

  • Protean Prosodies

    James A Matisoff, Alfons WeidertARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1994Citada por: 1

  • Selected Papers on Comparative Tai Studies

    James A Matisoff, William J Gedney et al.ARTICLELanguage1993

  • The Dictionary of Lahu

    Soren Egerod, James A MatisoffARTICLELanguage1991

  • Sino-Tibetan Linguistics

    James A Matisoff, J MatisoffARTICLEAnnual Review of Anthropology1991Citada por: 25Referências: 11

    Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More

  • Bulging Monosyllables

    Open AccessJames A MatisoffARTICLEProceedings of the Annual Meeting…1990

    Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1990), pp. 543-559

  • On Megalocomparison

    James A MatisoffARTICLELanguage1990Citada por: 15

    1 . Joseph H. Greenberg's Language in the Americas ( LIA; 1987) has been greeted with dismay by many specialists in Amerindian linguistics 1 (cf. Chafe 1987, Campbell 1988, Adelaar 1989), and defended by the author in a reply to Campbell in Language 65.1 (1989)

  • The Grammar of Lahu

    Scott Delancey, James A MatisoffARTICLELanguage1988

  • Translucent insights

    Open AccessJames A MatisoffARTICLEBulletin of the School of…1983Citada por: 1Referências: 1

    The great South-East Asian linguist and epigrapher, Gordon H. Luce, devoted many decades of his long life to the decipherment and analysis of the inscriptions of Old Burma. He had long intended to draw on the unparalleled wealth of materials in his files to produce a comparative lexicon of 'prestandard Old Burmese' (OB). As Professor Henderson explains in her moving introduction, Luce's advancing years and failing eyesight caused A comparative wo…

  • Conjugal Bliss

    James A MatisoffARTICLESouth Asian Review1982Referências: 1

  • Sketch of Thulung Grammar, with Three Texts and a Glossary

    James A Matisoff, N J Allen et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1981

    Cornell University East Asia Papers, No. 6, 254 p

  • Variational Semantics in Tibeto-Burman

    Robbins Burling, James A MatisoffARTICLELanguage1980

  • The Deep Syntax of Lisu Sentences

    James A Matisoff, Edward Reginald HopeARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1980

    This thesis is based on some fourteen years of study of the Lisu language, nine and a half of which were spent on the field . During this time I have, to a reasonable extent, acquired native-speaker intuitions about the language, and this thesis is largely an attempt to explain these intuitions . I have in most cases used my own judgement in deciding whether sentences are grammatical or not, but where I have been uncertain, or where a point I hav…

  • On the Demise of the Proto-Tibeto-Burman Mid Vowels

    James A MatisoffReferências: 1

    The immediate impetus for writing this paper was a confused article by Nathan W. Hill of SOAS (2011), which, inter alia, purported to turn the interpretation of an established Tibeto-Burman sound correspondence, Written Tibetan -o(-) / Written Burmese -wa(-), on its head. This reinterpretation can easily be shown to be wrong, though this is of little importance compared to certain wider issues this article raises. At the risk of being accused of …