Nicholas Bodman
Nicholas C. Bodman | |
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Born | |
Died | June 29, 1997 | (aged 83)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Yale University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Sino-Tibetan linguistics |
Institutions | Cornell University |
Doctoral students | William H. Baxter |
Chinese name | |
Hanyu Pinyin | Bāo Nǐgǔ |
Nicholas Cleaveland Bodman (July 27, 1913 – June 29, 1997) was an American linguist who made fundamental contributions to the study of historical Chinese phonology and Sino-Tibetan languages.
Bodman was born in Chicago in 1913. He entered
After leaving the navy, Bodman enrolled at Yale, where he obtained his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D., with a study of the phonology of the Shiming.[1] While at Yale he was a student of Li Fang-Kuei, who was a visiting professor there at the time.[2] He worked at the Foreign Service Institute from 1950 until 1962, rising to head to the Department of Far Eastern languages.[1] Between 1951 and 1952, he was in Malaya on loan to the British government, where he created a course on Hokkien that is still a definitive reference.[1][3]
In 1962, Bodman joined the faculty of Cornell University, where he stayed until his retirement in 1979.[1][3] He continued to do fieldwork on
Publications
- ——— (1954). A Linguistic Study of the "Shih Ming": Initials and Consonant Clusters. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- ——— (1955). Spoken Amoy Hokkien. Kuala Lumpur: Government of the Federation of Malaya.
- adapted with dialogues rewritten by Wu Su-chu as Spoken Taiwanese, Spoken Language Services, 1983. ISBN 978-0-87950-460-1.
- adapted with dialogues rewritten by Wu Su-chu as Spoken Taiwanese, Spoken Language Services, 1983.
- ——— (1980). "Proto-Chinese and Sino-Tibetan: data towards establishing the nature of the relationship". In van Coetsem, Frans; Waugh, Linda R. (eds.). Contributions to historical linguistics: issues and materials. Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 34–199. ISBN 978-90-04-06130-9.
- ——— (1985). "The Reflexes of Initial Nasals in Proto-Southern Min-Hingua". In Acson, Veneeta; Leed, Richard L. (eds.). For Gordon H. Fairbanks. Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications. Vol. 20. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 2–20. JSTOR 20006706.
References
- ^ hdl:1813/18412.
- ^ "Linguistics east and west: American Indian, Sino-Tibetan, and Thai, Fang-kuei Li". oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
- ^ JSTOR 23756752.
- ^ JSTOR 23753960.
External links
- "Guide to the Nicholas C. Bodman Papers, 1945–ca. 1980". Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.