
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi All,<div class="">I recently put together a four-volume collection of important articles in Sino-Tibetan linguistics, with introductions contextualising the articles and talking about what has been done since the articles were published. I did this as a tribute to the earlier generation of linguists for their contributions, but also as a starting point for young scholars getting into the field and for veterans who just want to have easy access to classic articles. Routledge limited me to 1500 pages, and wanted only journal articles, so there were constraints on what I could choose, though I did manage to get a couple of important articles in that weren’t from journals. As I say in the preface, the choice of articles was a personal one, based on my 40+ years in the field, though I read or reread hundreds of articles in making my decisions.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here is a link to the book, which came out at the end of October, and is now included in Routledge’s Christmas sale for the low-low price of £720 (I’m not making this up! the normal price is £900!):</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Sino-Tibetan-Linguistics/LaPolla/p/book/9780415577397" class="">https://www.routledge.com/Sino-Tibetan-Linguistics/LaPolla/p/book/9780415577397</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you would like to read pre-publication drafts of the frontmatter and introductions, you can download them here:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Combined frontmatter:</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/b7xqhfe6oizdm1f/00_STL_Combined Frontmatter.pdf?dl=0" class="">https://www.dropbox.com/s/b7xqhfe6oizdm1f/00_STL_Combined%20Frontmatter.pdf?dl=0</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Volume I Establishing the relations:</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/kru3e8lew0ey9zx/1A00b_STL_Volume_1_Introduction.pdf?dl=0" class="">https://www.dropbox.com/s/kru3e8lew0ey9zx/1A00b_STL_Volume_1_Introduction.pdf?dl=0</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Volume II Language contact:</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/7wmb72gy1wuqjy9/200b_STL_Volume_2_Introduction.pdf?dl=0" class="">https://www.dropbox.com/s/7wmb72gy1wuqjy9/200b_STL_Volume_2_Introduction.pdf?dl=0</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Volume III Sinitic:</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/8ochu8lbolz56ar/3A00b_STL_Volume_3_Introduction.pdf?dl=0" class="">https://www.dropbox.com/s/8ochu8lbolz56ar/3A00b_STL_Volume_3_Introduction.pdf?dl=0</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Volume IV Tibeto-Burman:</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/e34q8l3zb741bgn/400b_STL_Volume_4_Tibeto-Burman-Introduction.pdf?dl=0" class="">https://www.dropbox.com/s/e34q8l3zb741bgn/400b_STL_Volume_4_Tibeto-Burman-Introduction.pdf?dl=0</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hope they can be of use.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Randy</div><div class="">

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