James A. Matisoff

List of John Benjamins publications for which James A. Matisoff plays a role.

Book series

London Oriental and African Language Library (LOALL)

Edited by Melanie Green, Masayoshi Shibatani and Justin Watkins

ISSN 1382-3485

Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics (SFSL)

Journals

Language and Linguistics (L&L)

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area (LTBA)

Articles

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Matisoff, James A. 2023 Paddy-field dike: A new Sino-Loloish etymology Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 46:1, pp. 1–5 | Article

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… read more

Matisoff, James A. 2019 Scouring the world for transgenetic interrelationships Diachronica 36:1, pp. 121–137 | Review article

Matisoff, James A. 2013 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 | Article

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

Matisoff, James A. 2007 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 | Article

Matisoff, James A. 1991 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. | Article