Paul K. Benedict

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Paul K. Benedict was an American linguist and anthropologist renowned for his pioneering comparative work on Sino-Tibetan and other East and Southeast Asian language families.

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instanceOf anthropologist
human
linguist
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1912-07-05
dateOfDeath 1997-07-21
educatedAt Columbia University
University of Chicago
University of New Mexico NERFINISHED
employer American Museum of Natural History NERFINISHED
Columbia University
University of Chicago
Yale University
familyName Benedict NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork Austro-Tai languages NERFINISHED
East Asian languages
Sino-Tibetan languages NERFINISHED
Southeast Asian languages
anthropology
comparative linguistics
historical linguistics
linguistics
gender male
givenName Paul
influenced later comparative studies of East and Southeast Asian languages
subsequent research on Sino-Tibetan classification
knownFor comparative work on East and Southeast Asian language families
pioneering comparative work on Sino-Tibetan languages
proposal of an Austro-Tai language family
reconstruction of Proto-Sino-Tibetan
languageStudied Austroasiatic languages NERFINISHED
Sino-Tibetan languages NERFINISHED
Tai-Kadai languages NERFINISHED
Thai language
Tibeto-Burman languages NERFINISHED
memberOf Linguistic Society of America NERFINISHED
name Paul K. Benedict NERFINISHED
nationality American
nativeLanguage English
notableWork Austro-Thai Language and Culture, with a Glossary of Roots NERFINISHED
Sino-Tibetan: A Conspectus NERFINISHED
occupation anthropologist
linguist
placeOfBirth Poughkeepsie, New York, United States NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath New York City
surface form: New York City, New York, United States

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan studiedBy Paul K. Benedict
Austro-Tai hypothesis hasProponent Paul K. Benedict