THE TIBETO-BURMAN REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM by James Alan Matisoff ( 9780520098718 )

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THE TIBETO-BURMAN REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
TOWARD AN ETYMOLOGICAL THESAURUS

By:

James Alan Matisoff

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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

Pub. date:

10 September, 2008

Series:

UC Publications in Linguistics 140

Pages:

302

Description:

Presents the prototype of the etymological thesaurus that has been the goal of the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus project (STEDT) since 1987. This book provides nearly 170 Proto-Tibeto-Burman etymologies in the semantic area of the reproductive system, along with discussions of possible Chinese cognates.

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This pioneering book is the prototype of the etymological thesaurus that has been the goal of the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus project (STEDT) since 1987. It presents nearly 170 Proto-Tibeto-Burman etymologies in the semantic area of the reproductive system, along with discussions of possible Chinese cognates. Special attention is paid to patterns of semantic associations between the reproductive system and other areas of the lexicon.

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University of California Press

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