Paul K. Benedict

Paul King Benedict (Chinese name: 白保罗 Bái Bǎoluó; d. 1997 in Ormond Beach, Florida) was an American linguist who specialized in languages of East and Southeast Asia. He is well known for his 1942 proposal of the Austro-Tai language family and also his reconstruction of Proto-Sino-Tibetan and Proto-Tibeto-Burman.

Works

• Benedict, Paul K. (1972). Sino-Tibetan: A conspectus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Benedict, Paul K. “Remarks on A Comparative Vocabulary of Five Sino-Tibetan Languages, by Ilia Peiros and Sergei A. Starostin.” Mother Tongue 4:151-2.

References

• Benedict, Paul K., Graham Thurgood, and 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.