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gptkbp:instanceOf
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gptkb:person
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gptkbp:almaMater
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gptkb:University_of_California,_Berkeley
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gptkbp:birthYear
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1957
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gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor
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gptkb:James_Matisoff
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gptkbp:editor
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The Sino-Tibetan Languages
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gptkbp:employer
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gptkb:Nanyang_Technological_University
gptkb:Beijing_Normal_University
gptkb:La_Trobe_University
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gptkbp:field
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gptkb:Sino-Tibetan_languages
historical linguistics
linguistics
language documentation
typology
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gptkbp:knownFor
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gptkb:language_typology
work on Sino-Tibetan languages
work on Qiangic languages
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gptkbp:languageStudied
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gptkb:Qiang
gptkb:Rawang
gptkb:Sino-Tibetan_languages
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gptkbp:memberOf
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gptkb:Linguistic_Society_of_America
International Association of Chinese Linguistics
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gptkbp:nationality
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gptkb:American
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gptkbp:notableWork
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A Grammar of Qiang
The Sino-Tibetan Languages (co-edited with Graham Thurgood)
Syntax: Structure, Meaning, and Function (with Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.)
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gptkbp:occupation
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gptkb:linguist
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Linguistics_of_the_Tibeto-Burman_Area
gptkb:Tibeto-Burman_studies
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8
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http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Randy J. LaPolla
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