<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Sorry for the typo in Edmund Leach’s name!<div><br></div><div>Randy<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature">Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On 21 Feb 2018, at 4:38 PM, Randy J. LaPolla <<a href="mailto:randy.lapolla@gmail.com">randy.lapolla@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Hi All,<div>There is a new video interview (a short oral history) with Prof. Geoffrey Benjamin, a well-known senior specialist on the Aslian languages of Malaysia and other languages in the Malaysia/Indonesia/Singapore area, on YouTube:<br class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEtFvGfLk90mnKqHxFzayduC56MQPkgQ9" class="">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEtFvGfLk90mnKqHxFzayduC56MQPkgQ9</a><br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><br class=""></font>It covers how he got involved in the field, his fieldwork on the Temiar, the influence of his teachers Edmund Leech and Jack Goody, among others, and his view of the prospects for the field.<br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><br class=""></font>Happy viewing!<br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><br class=""></font>Randy<br class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: white;" class="">-----</span><br class=""><span class="" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;"><b class="">Randy J. LaPolla, PhD FAHA</b> （羅</span><span class="" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white; font-size: 13px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Song">仁地</font></span><span class="" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;">）</span><br class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Professor of Linguistics and Chinese, School of Humanities </span><br class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: -webkit-auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Nanyang Technological University</span><br class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><span style="background-color: white;" class="">HSS-03-45, 14 Nanyang Drive </span></span></span><span class="" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">| </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><span style="background-color: white;" class="">Singapore 637332</span></span></span><br class=""><a href="http://randylapolla.net/" class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: white; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">http://randylapolla.net/</a><br class=""><span style="background-color: white; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Most recent book:</span><br class=""><a href="https://www.routledge.com/The-Sino-Tibetan-Languages-2nd-Edition/LaPolla-Thurgood/p/book/9781138783324" class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">https://www.routledge.com/The-Sino-Tibetan-Languages-2nd-Edition/LaPolla-Thurgood/p/book/9781138783324</a><br class=""></div><br class=""></div></blockquote></div></body></html>