James A. Matisoff
List of John Benjamins publications for which James A. Matisoff plays a role.
Book series
Journals
ISSN 0731-3500 | E-ISSN 2214-5907
Articles
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… read more | Article
2019
Review article
The dinguist’s dilemma: Regular and sporadic l/d interchange in Sino-Tibetan and elsewhere Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation: In honor of Scott DeLancey, Thornes, Tim, Erik Andvik, Gwendolyn Hyslop and Joana Jansen (eds.), pp. 83–104
2013 This paper explores interactions between the lateral liquid l and the voiced stop d (with parenthetical remarks about n and t as well) in a variety of language families, especially Sino-Tibetan/Tibeto-Burman. These apical sounds participate both in synchronic patterns of variation and in diachronic… read more | Article
Response to Laurent Sagart’s review of Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman: System and philosophy of Sino-Tibetan reconstruction Diachronica 24:2, pp. 435–444
2007 Article
Areal and universal dimensions of grammatization in Lahu Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume II. Types of grammatical markers, Traugott, Elizabeth Closs and Bernd Heine (eds.), pp. 383 ff.
1991 Article