Paul K. Benedict

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Paul K. Benedict
BornJuly 5, 1912
Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.
DiedJuly 21, 1997(1997-07-21) (aged 85)
Ormond Beach, Florida, U.S.
Academic background
Alma materHarvard University
New York Medical College
Academic work
Main interestsSino-Tibetan languages, languages of East Asia
Notable worksSino-Tibetan: A conspectus (1972)
InfluencedJames Matisoff
Chinese name
Hanyu Pinyin
Bái Bǎoluó

Paul King Benedict (

ethnopsychiatry
.

Life and career

Benedict was born in Poughkeepsie, New York and graduated from Poughkeepsie High School in 1930. He attended Cornell University before transferring to University of New Mexico, earning a bachelor of arts degree there in 1934.[1] He then attended Harvard University earning a master's degree in 1935 and a Ph.D. in anthropology in 1941. During his studies, he traveled to Asia and studied at University of California for two years.[2]

After he received his M.D. degree at the

New York State Department of Corrections.[3]
Benedict later published work on mental health in other cultures before turning his attention to language studies.

Benedict's work on Proto-Sino-Tibetan reconstruction was published in the 1972 monograph Sino-Tibetan: A Conspectus.

Proto-Tibeto-Burman reconstructions.[5]

Benedict died in a traffic collision in Ormond Beach, Florida.

Selected publications

  • Benedict, Paul K. (1942). "Thai, Kadai, and Indonesian: A new alignment in South-Eastern Asia" American Anthropologist 44.576-601.
  • Benedict, Paul K. (1972). Sino-Tibetan: A Conspectus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Benedict, Paul K. (1975). Austro-Thai language and culture, with a glossary of roots. New Haven: HRAF Press.
    ISBN 0-87536-323-7
    .
  • Benedict, Paul K. (1990).
    ISBN 0-89720-078-0
    .
  • Benedict, Paul K. “Remarks on A Comparative Vocabulary of Five Sino-Tibetan Languages, by
    Sergei A. Starostin
    .” Mother Tongue 4:151-2.
  • Benedict, Paul K.,
    James A. Matisoff
    , and David Bradley (eds.). 1985. Linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area: the state of the art: papers presented to Paul K. Benedict for his 71st birthday. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
  • Benedict, Paul K. 1997. Special volume dedicated to Dr. Paul K. Benedict on the occasion of his eighty-fifth birthday (Mon Khmer Studies vol. 27). Salaya, Thailand: Mahidol University; Dallas, TX: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

References

Wikiquote has quotations related to Paul K. Benedict.
  1. ^ Blust, Robert (1998). In memoriam: Paul King Benedict Oceanic Linguistics Vol. 37, No. 1 (Jun. 1998), pp. 1-11
  2. Poughkeepsie New Yorker
  3. ^ Bellak, Leopold (Ed. ) (1958). Schizophrenia: a review of the syndrome. Logos Press
  4. ^ Benedict, Paul K. (1972). Sino-Tibetan: A Conspectus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  5. ISBN 978-0-520-09843-5
    .
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