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Li Fang-Kuei

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Li was one of the first Chinese people to study linguistics outside China. Originally a student of medicine, he switched to linguistics when he went to the United States in 1924. He earned a BA in linguistics at the
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was published in 1930. Following the completion of his PhD, Li traveled to Europe during 1928–1929 with letters of recommendation from
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Li conducted field studies of the indigenous languages of the Americas. His first exposure to fieldwork was his study of the
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and Old Chinese were widely used by students of ancient Chinese from their publication in the 1970s until the late 1990s.
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Mah Feng-hua 馬逢華 (1988), "Daonian Li Fanggui xiansheng" 悼念李方桂先生 ("Remembering Mr. Li Fang-kuei"), in
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Interviews conducted by Ning-Ping Chan and Randy La Polla, with an Introduction by George Taylor.
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language of northern California. He received an MA in 1927 and a PhD in 1928. His dissertation
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degree in 1880, and served in minor official posts in the late 19th to early 20th century.
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then located at Beijing. From this point on, he performed field studies of several
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from 1946 to 1948. During the same period he was working on a dictionary at the
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After his fieldwork on Hare, in 1929 he returned to China and, along with
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in 1926 after only two years of study. He then did graduate study under
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Linguistics East and West: American Indian, Sino-Tibetan, and Thai
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until his retirement in 1974. In 1977, he published a comparative
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at Chicago, and in 1928 Buck secured a 6-month fellowship at
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Li also spent 3 months in 1929 in Canada's 280: 8: 1004:Li Fang-Kuei Society for Chinese Linguistics 841:Karlgren–Li reconstruction of Middle Chinese 471:roughly 50 kilometers (31 mi) south of 988:"Professor Li Fang-kuei: a Personal Memoir" 553:, living on an island in the middle of the 455:Li Fang-Kuei was born on 20 August 1902 in 27:Chinese linguist and sinologist (1902–1987) 289: 57: 46: 964:Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 727:The Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies 545:, and visited linguists there including 852: 816:A study of the old Tibetan inscriptions 1059:Linguists of Southeast Asian languages 1034:Chinese emigrants to the United States 1029:Boxer Indemnity Scholarship recipients 725:[Studies on Archaic Chinese]. 354: 858: 856: 786:. Manoa: University Press of Hawaii. 7: 674:California State University, Hayward 507:at this time, from whom Li learned 775: 25: 463:to a minor scholarly family from 1094:University of Washington faculty 1049:Linguists from the United States 668:, survived by his wife Xu Ying ( 1069:Taiwanese people from Guangdong 721:——— (1971). 695:Mattole: An Athabaskan Language 678:Chinese University of Hong Kong 391: 377: 169:Mattole: An Athabaskan Language 1124:Linguists of Kra–Dai languages 1054:Linguists of Na-Dene languages 999:An interview with Li Fang-kuei 983:American Philosophical Society 822:——— (1986). 782:——— (1977). 762:10.1080/02549948.1974.11731100 669: 578: 573: 459:during the final years of the 353: 339: 325: 311: 281: 1: 1089:University of Chicago faculty 1084:University of Michigan alumni 1079:University of Hawaiʻi faculty 784:A handbook of comparative Tai 625:from 1938 to 1939, and after 427:known for his studies of the 946:by Ron and Suzanne Scollon, 666:San Mateo County, California 557:conducting fieldwork on the 447:languages in North America. 99:San Mateo County, California 443:, and his documentation of 1140: 1064:Members of Academia Sinica 952:, 1989, available through 931:Fanggui yu wo wushiwu nian 661:, now in Taiwan, in 1973. 635:Harvard–Yenching Institute 475:. Li's father Li Guangyu ( 31: 501:American Indian languages 476: 420: 406: 402: 288: 265: 261: 257: 127: 56: 1039:Educators from Guangdong 959:Li Fang-Kuei (1902–1989) 722: 643:University of Washington 223:University of Washington 1099:Yale University faculty 949:American Anthropologist 598:dialects spoken by the 1114:20th-century linguists 1104:Writers from Guangzhou 994:Li Fang-Kuei Symposium 961:, by R.J. LaPolla, in 614:'s reconstructions of 489:University of Michigan 149:University of Michigan 990:by Anne Yue-Hashimoto 979:Fanggui Li Collection 647:University of Hawaiʻi 579:Lìshǐ yǔyán yánjiūsuǒ 551:Northwest Territories 497:University of Chicago 228:University of Hawaiʻi 154:University of Chicago 1119:Historical linguists 1109:Linguists of Chinese 1044:Linguists from China 610:. Li's revisions of 481:imperial examination 429:varieties of Chinese 929:Xu Ying 徐櫻 (1994). 682:Tsinghua University 538:Athabaskan Language 144:Tsinghua University 132:Academic background 631:Harvard University 525:Harvard University 515:. Li also studied 505:Leonard Bloomfield 467:, a small town in 249:David R. 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Index

Fang-kuei Li
Chinese name
family name

Guangzhou
San Mateo County, California
Republic of China
United States
Tsinghua University
University of Michigan
University of Chicago
Thesis
Edward Sapir
Linguistics
Yale University
Harvard University
Academia Sinica
University of Washington
University of Hawaiʻi
W. South Coblin
David R. Knechtges
Chinese
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Gwoyeu Romatzyh
Wade–Giles
IPA

Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization

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