Review of "The language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo), vol. I: grammar"
Robbins Burling (henceforth B) is a distinguished example of the species known as “anthropological linguists”, to which Paul K. Benedict also belonged.1 B’s involvement with Bodo-Garo language and culture dates from the 1950’s, and at this moment (April, 2008) he is actually off doing fieldw...
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| author | Matisoff, James A. |
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| description | Robbins Burling (henceforth B) is a distinguished example of the species known
as “anthropological linguists”, to which Paul K. Benedict also belonged.1
B’s
involvement with Bodo-Garo language and culture dates from the 1950’s, and at
this moment (April, 2008) he is actually off doing fieldwork on still another
language of this group, Dimasa. During the course of his decades-long work with
Garo, B has obviously acquired considerable fluency in the language, although he
emphasizes throughout this grammar (henceforth LMM) that he is still far from
having native intuitions about difficult points... |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1777432024-06-04T07:16:40Z Review of "The language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo), vol. I: grammar" Matisoff, James A. University of California, Berkeley Arts and Humanities Robbins Burling (henceforth B) is a distinguished example of the species known as “anthropological linguists”, to which Paul K. Benedict also belonged.1 B’s involvement with Bodo-Garo language and culture dates from the 1950’s, and at this moment (April, 2008) he is actually off doing fieldwork on still another language of this group, Dimasa. During the course of his decades-long work with Garo, B has obviously acquired considerable fluency in the language, although he emphasizes throughout this grammar (henceforth LMM) that he is still far from having native intuitions about difficult points... Published version 2024-06-04T07:16:40Z 2024-06-04T07:16:40Z 2008 Journal Article Matisoff, J. A. (2008). Review of "The language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo), vol. I: grammar". Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 31(2), 145-163. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/LTBA.31.2.05 0731-3500 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177743 10.32655/LTBA.31.2.05 2 31 145 163 en Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area © 2008 The Editor(s). All rights reserved. application/pdf |
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