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James A. Matisoff

Affiliations: 
Linguistics University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States 
Area:
Southeast Asian languages, especially Tibeto-Burman and Thai, Chinese, Japanese, field linguistics, Yiddish studies, historical semantics, psychosemantics, language typology, area linguistics
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Mary Haas grad student

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Graham Thurgood grad student 1976 UC Berkeley
Chang Kuang-Yu grad student 1986 UC Berkeley
John Lowe grad student 1995 UC Berkeley
Aimee Lahaussois grad student 2002 UC Berkeley
Richard S. Cook grad student 2003 UC Berkeley
Kenneth VanBik grad student 2006 UC Berkeley
Dominic Yu grad student 2012 UC Berkeley
Daniel W. Bruhn grad student 2014 UC Berkeley

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Matisoff JA. (2011) "Stung by a bee, you fear a fly": Areal and universal aspects of Lahu proverbial wisdom Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 74: 275-304
Matisoff JA. (2000) On ‘Sino-Bodic’ and other symptoms of neosubgroupitis Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies-University of London. 63: 356-369
Matisoff JA. (1991) Sino-Tibetan Linguistics: Present State and Future Prospects Annual Review of Anthropology. 20: 469-504
Matisoff JA. (1989) Chinese . By Jerry Norman. Cambridge Language Surveys. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xii, 292 pp. $54.50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). The Journal of Asian Studies. 48: 836-838
Matisoff JA. (1989) 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. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies-University of London. 52: 599-602
Matisoff JA. (1983) Translucent insights: a look at Proto-Sino-Tibetan through Gordon H. Luce's Comparative word-list Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies-University of London. 46: 462-476
Matisoff JA, Allen NJ. (1981) Sketch of Thulung Grammar, with Three Texts and a Glossary Journal of the American Oriental Society. 101: 435
Lehman FK, Matisoff JA. (1978) The Grammar of Lahu Journal of the American Oriental Society. 98: 296
Matisoff JA. (1974) The tones of jinghpaw and lolo-burmese: Common origin vs. independent development Acta Linguistica Hafniensia. 15: 153-212
Matisoff JA, Arthur N. (1970) Auxiliary Verbs in Myang of Northern Thailand. The Journal of Asian Studies. 29: 492
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