Jerry Lee Norman ( born Jerry Lee Norman , July 16, 1936 , Watsonville , CA - July 7, 2012 , Seattle ) is an American linguist , sinologist , known for his work on Chinese dialects and Chinese historical phonology (especially dialects Ming ) and Manchu language .
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| Date of Birth | July 16, 1936 |
| Place of Birth | Watsonville, California , USA |
| Date of death | July 7, 2012 (aged 75) |
| A place of death | Seattle , Washington , USA |
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| Scientific field | linguistics |
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| Awards and prizes | Guggenheim Fellowship |
Jerry Norman had a significant influence on Chinese linguistics and was known for showing the importance of Minsk dialects for learning the ancient Chinese language [1] .
Biography
Jerry Norman was born July 16, 1936 in Watsonville, California, USA. After graduation, he entered the University of California at Berkeley , where he studied Chinese with the outstanding linguist and encyclopedist [2] . In 1965, he worked with Leo Chen on introducing the and the Fuzhou-English dictionary. In 1966, Norman became a full-time linguist at the Chinese Linguistics Project at Princeton University [3] . He traveled to Taiwan , where he conducted field studies of the Taiwanese dialect . In 1969 he defended his dissertation on the Fujian at the University of Berkeley [4] . From 1972 to the end of his scientific career in 1998, he worked at the Asian Languages Department at Washington University .
In a series of works in 1973, Norman applied a comparative method for the reconstruction of the Proto-Minsk language on the basis of the generally accepted norms of the modern Minsk dialect.
Died July 7, 2012 from lung fibrosis [5] .
Proceedings
- 1965. With Leo Chen. Foochow-English Glossary . San Francisco State College.
- 1965. With Leo Chen. An Introduction to the Foochow Dialect . San Francisco State College.
- 1967. A Manchu-English Dictionary . Taipei.
- 1969. The Kienyang Dialect of Fukien . University of California, Berkeley. PhD dissertation.
- 1973. "Tonal Development in Min"; Journal of Chinese Linguistics 1-2: 222-238.
- 1974. “The Initials of Proto-Min”; Journal of Chinese Linguistics 2-1: 27-36.
- 1974. "Structure of Sibe Morphology"; Central Asian Journal .
- 1976. With Mei Tsu-lin. "The Austroasiatics in Ancient South China: Some Lexical Evidence"; Monumenta Serica 32 : 274-301, .
- 1978. A Concise Manchu-English Lexicon . University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-95574-2 .
- 1979. "Chronological Strata in the Min Dialects"; Fangyan方言 1979.4: 268–274.
- 1980. "Yongan fanyan" 永安 方言; Shumu Jikan书目 季刊 14-2: 113-165.
- 1981. "The Proto-Min Finals"; 中央研究院 国际 汉学 会议 论文集 语言 文字 组: 35-73.
- 1984. Three Min Etymologies; Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 13-2: 175-189. DOI : 10.3406 / clao.1984.1155 .
- 1986. "闽北 方言 的 第三 套 清 塞音 和 清 擦 塞音"; Zhongguo Yuwen中国 语文 1986.1: 38-41.
- 1988. Chinese . Cambridge University Press, 1988. ISBN 978-0-521-29653-3 .
- 1991. "The Mǐn Dialects in Historical Perspective"; Languages and Dialects of China , edited by William S.-Y. Wang, pp. 325-360. Published by Journal of Chinese Linguistics .
- 1995. With Weldon South Coblin . "A New Approach to Chinese Historical Linguistics"; Journal of the American Oriental Society 115-4: 576-584.
- 1996. "Tonal Development in the Jennchyan Dialect"; Yuen Ren Society Treasury of Chinese Dialect Data 2: 7-41.
- 2000. With Gilbert Louis Mattos. translation of Chinese Writing by Qiu Xigui . Society for the Study of Early China and the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California. ISBN 978-1-55729-071-7
- 2002. “A Glossary of the Lianduentsuen Dialect”; Short Chinese Dialect Reports 1: 339–394.
- 2006. “Min Animal Body Parts”; Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics 1-1: 133-143.
- 2007. “汉语 方言 田野 调查 与 音韵 学”; Beijing Daxue Xuebao北京大学 学报 44.2: 91-94.
- 2013. A Comprehensive Manchu-English Dictionary . Harvard University Asia Center. ISBN 978-0-674-07213-8
Notes
- ↑ Sagart (2012) , p. 341.
- ↑ Qi Huang. Chinese Characters Then And Now. - Springer, 2004 .-- P. 108. - ISBN 9783211227954 .
- ↑ {{{title}}} (neopr.) // Newsletter of the Association for Asian Studies. - 1968 .-- T. 14 . - S. 51 .
- ↑ Science in Contemporary China / Léo A. Orleans. - , 1980. - P. xxi. - ISBN 9780804710787 .
- ↑ Obituary .