TY - BOOK
T1 - Language and Culture in Northeast India and Beyond
T2 - In Honour of Robbins Burling
A2 - Post, Mark
A2 - Morey, Stephen
A2 - Delancey, Scott
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This volume celebrates the life and work of Robbins Burling, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Michigan, giant in the fields of anthropological linguistics, language evolution, and language pedagogy, and pioneer in the ethnography and linguistics of Tibeto-Burman-speaking groups in the Northeast Indian region. We offer it to Professor Burling - Rob - on the occasion of his 90th birthday, on the occasion of the 60th year of his extraordinary scholarly productivity, and on the occasion of yet another - yet another! - field trip to Northeast India, where his career in anthropology and linguistics effectively began so many decades ago, and where he has amassed so many devoted friends and colleagues - including ourselves.
AB - This volume celebrates the life and work of Robbins Burling, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Michigan, giant in the fields of anthropological linguistics, language evolution, and language pedagogy, and pioneer in the ethnography and linguistics of Tibeto-Burman-speaking groups in the Northeast Indian region. We offer it to Professor Burling - Rob - on the occasion of his 90th birthday, on the occasion of the 60th year of his extraordinary scholarly productivity, and on the occasion of yet another - yet another! - field trip to Northeast India, where his career in anthropology and linguistics effectively began so many decades ago, and where he has amassed so many devoted friends and colleagues - including ourselves.
KW - Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology)
KW - Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)
KW - Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)
M3 - Book
SN - 9781922185266
SN - 9781922185259
T3 - Asia-Pacific Linguistics
BT - Language and Culture in Northeast India and Beyond
PB - Asia-Pacific Linguistics
CY - Canberra, Australia
ER -