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Paul King Benedict (5 July 1912 β 21 July 1997) was an American linguist who specialized in languages of East and Southeast Asia.
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βAs I see it, Greenberg and I are simply playing different games and the contrast in our approaches reflects that basic difference. β¦ I play one game and am intrigued by the other but I do keep wondering whether that other game has any rules or whether a computerized robot might not be rather better at it all. But long live both games!β
βWelcome to the field of Southeast Asian linguistics! This welcome comes with a warning: Southeast Asia is the Bosnia of historical linguistics, with a lovely landscape strewn with land mines! β¦ 'Look-alikes' (look less and less alike the more we know about them) abound, as in Malay bΔras and Wr. Tibetan 'bras for 'rice', as do also unlikely-appearing cognate sets such as Thai pu 'grandfather' and Japanese o:i 'nephew'.β
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Paul K. Benedict on Meitei language
βMeitei, the state language of Manipur, shows significant points of contact with Kachin as well as with Kuki-Naga, though the affinities are prominently with the latter.β
About Paul K. Benedict
Paul King Benedict (5 July 1912 β 21 July 1997) was an American linguist who specialized in languages of East and Southeast Asia.