Jerry Norman
Jerry Lee Norman (born July 16, 1936 in Watsonville , California , † July 7, 2012 in Seattle ) was an American sinologist and Manchurian .
Norman wrote his dissertation in 1969 at the University of California, Berkeley on The Kienyang Dialect of Fukien .
From 1972 until his retirement in 1998 he taught at the Department of Asian Languages at the University of Washington in Seattle . Norman became known through his occupation with the Min dialects and the Altaic languages . Among other things, Norman was President of the renowned American Oriental Society .
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Works
- A Manchu-English dictionary , Taipei 1967
- A concise Manchu-English lexicon , Seattle, University of Washington Press 1978
- Chinese , Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1988
- (Translator) Xigui Qiu: Chinese writing , Berkeley, Calif., Society for the Study of Early China 2000
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Norman, Jerry |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Norman, Jerry Lee (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American linguist (sinologist, Manchurian) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Watsonville , California |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 7, 2012 |
| Place of death | Seattle |