Li Fang-Kuei

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Li Fang-Kuei was a prominent Chinese linguist and philologist known for his influential work on the historical phonology of Chinese and other Sino-Tibetan languages.

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Li Fang-Kuei canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf linguist
person
philologist
sinologist
citizenship China
United States of America
educatedAt Tsinghua University
University of Chicago
University of Michigan
employer Academia Sinica
University of Hawaii
University of Washington
Yenching University
ethnicGroup Han Chinese
familyName Li
fieldOfWork American Indian languages
Chinese linguistics
Sino-Tibetan linguistics
Tai-Kadai languages
Tibeto-Burman languages
comparative linguistics
historical phonology
gender male
givenName Fang-Kuei
influenced Chinese historical phonology
Sino-Tibetan comparative linguistics
knownFor fieldwork on Athabaskan languages
fieldwork on Tai languages
reconstruction of Old Chinese phonology
research on historical phonology of Chinese
studies of Sino-Tibetan languages
languageStudied Athabaskan languages
Mandarin Chinese
Middle Chinese
Old Chinese
Tai languages
Tibeto-Burman languages
memberOf Academia Sinica
name Li Fang-Kuei
nativeLanguage Chinese
notableWork A Handbook of Comparative Tai
Materials on the Athabaskan Languages
Studies in Archaic Chinese Phonology
occupation university professor
placeOfActivity China
Taiwan
United States of America

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Middle Chinese reconstructedBy Li Fang-Kuei
Old Chinese reconstructedBy Li Fang-Kuei
Li Fang-Kuei name Li Fang-Kuei