Miller: all about Japanese (a review of a review)
Twenty years ago my first book, the Sino-Tibetan: a Conspectus (SIT.). appeared, with Jim Matisoff as contributing editor. The Sino-Tibetan field was even more esoteric in those days than at present and I feared the worst: few would read the book and even fewer appreciate it. I was hardly prepared f...
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| description | Twenty years ago my first book, the Sino-Tibetan: a Conspectus (SIT.). appeared, with Jim Matisoff as contributing editor. The Sino-Tibetan field was even more esoteric in those days than at present and I feared the worst: few would read the book and even fewer appreciate it. I was hardly prepared for what followed, however. Roy Andrew Miller (hereafter RAM) reviewed STC at great length: more accurately, he wrote a 'review' article containing a great number of words, German as well as English.' He found absolutely nothing good about the book, not even (as Matisoff has observed) the paper on which it was printed. He made it all somehow seem to be a vast conspiracy against linguistic scholarship. the product of a collegiality of oligophrenics. Who in the world would read the book, let alone buy it? |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1793192024-07-29T02:08:29Z Miller: all about Japanese (a review of a review) Benedict, Paul K. Arts and Humanities Twenty years ago my first book, the Sino-Tibetan: a Conspectus (SIT.). appeared, with Jim Matisoff as contributing editor. The Sino-Tibetan field was even more esoteric in those days than at present and I feared the worst: few would read the book and even fewer appreciate it. I was hardly prepared for what followed, however. Roy Andrew Miller (hereafter RAM) reviewed STC at great length: more accurately, he wrote a 'review' article containing a great number of words, German as well as English.' He found absolutely nothing good about the book, not even (as Matisoff has observed) the paper on which it was printed. He made it all somehow seem to be a vast conspiracy against linguistic scholarship. the product of a collegiality of oligophrenics. Who in the world would read the book, let alone buy it? Published version 2024-07-29T02:08:29Z 2024-07-29T02:08:29Z 1992 Journal Article Benedict, P. K. (1992). Miller: all about Japanese (a review of a review). Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 15(1), 149-157. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/LTBA.15.1.12 0731-3500 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179319 10.32655/LTBA.15.1.12 1 15 149 157 en Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area © 1992 The Editor(s). All rights reserved. application/pdf |
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