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The secret of his high productivity, as he jokingly described it, was that while other people were enjoying "the beautiful surroundings of
Seattle, climbing the mountains or sailing the waters", "he sits at his desk, wearing out one typewriter after the other like other people wear out their shoes".
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Central and Inner Asian Studies initiated the first Nicholas Poppe Symposium. Poppe attended its first meeting in 1989 and the second in 1990. He was invited to the third meeting in May 1991 but was unable to attend on account of the state of
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Poppe graduated from the
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Poppe was a highly prolific scholar. A bibliography of his publications from 1924 to 1987 includes 284 books and articles and 205 book reviews. Between 1949 and 1968 — a period during which he was teaching 16 to 17 hours a week at the
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in Altaic, but regarded the evidence for the inclusion of Korean as weaker than that for the inclusion of
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Materials for the investigation of the Tungus language: the dialect of the Barguzin Tungus.
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summer for uninterrupted research — he wrote 217 works, including over 40 books.
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are supposed to belong. Poppe was open-minded toward the inclusion of
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Khalkha-Mongolian grammar: with bibliography, texts, and glossary.
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Specimens of Khalkha-Mongolian folklore: North Khalkha dialect
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Buriat-Mongolian folkloristic and dialectological collection
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The twelve deeds of the Buddha: a Mongolian version of the
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