Matisoff, James A.

James A. Matisoff, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, is one of the world's leading authorities on the languages of East and Southeast Asia, especially the Sino-Tibetan family. He is the author of numerous books, monographs, and articles, on topics synchronic and diachronic, grammatical, semantic, phonological, and lexicographical, including: "The Loloish Tonal Split Revisited" (1972), "The Grammar of Lahu" (1973/1982), "Variational Semantics in Tibeto-Burman" (1978), "Blessings, Curses, Hopes and Fears: Psycho-ostensive Expressions in Yiddish" (1979/2...