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Stuart Norris Wolfenden (1889 – 28 December 1938) was a linguist who worked at the
University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
during the first part of the 20th century. During the New Deal he was titular head of the Sino-Tibetan philology project, which both Robert Shafer and
Paul K. Benedict Paul King Benedict (; July 5, 1912 – July 21, 1997) was an American anthropologist, mental health professional, and linguist who specialized in languages of East and Southeast Asia. He is well known for his 1942 proposal of the Austro-Tai ...
were directors of. In the 1970s the 'Stuart Wolfenden Society' was founded in his honor, together with a monograph series 'Occasional papers of the Wolfenden Society', in which
James Matisoff James Alan Matisoff ( zh, , t=馬蒂索夫, s=马蒂索夫, p=Mǎdìsuǒfū or zh, , t=馬提索夫, s=马提索夫, p=Mǎtísuǒfū; born July 14, 1937) is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a no ...
published many of his early works.


Works of Wolfenden

*1928. "The significance of early Tibetan word forms." ''Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland'' (New Series) 60.4: 896-99. *1928. "The Prefix m- with Certain Substantives in Tibetan." ''Language'' 4.4:277-280. *1929. "On ok myit and she pok, with a proposed revision of the terminology of Burmese tones." ''Journal of the Burma Research Society'' 19.2: 57-66. *1929. Outlines of Tibeto-Burman linguistic morphology, with special reference to the prefixes, infixes and suffixes of classical Tibetan and the languages of the Kachin, Bodo, Nǎgǎ, Kuki-Chin and Burma groups. London: Royal Asiatic Society. *1929. Note on the tribal name Båṛå Fi-sā. ''Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland'' (New Series) 61.3: 581-583. *1929. A further note on Båṛå Fi-sā. ''Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland'' (New Series) 61.4: 869-870. *1931. On the Tibetan Transcription of Si-Hia Words. ''Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland'' (New Series) 63.1: 47-52. *1931. Review of Tibetisch-Chinesische Wortgleichungen, Ein Versuch von Walter Simon. Reprinted from Mitteilungen des Seminars für Orientalische Sprachen, Bd. xxxii, Abt. 1. 9 7/8 + 6 ¾ inches. pp. 72. Berlin and Leipzig: Walter de Gruyter, 1930. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (New Series) 63.1: 210-213. *1933. "Specimen of a Khambu dialect from Dilpa, Nepal." ''Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland'' (New Series) 65.4: 845-56. hambu, Rungchenbong*1934. "Specimen of the Sāngpāng Dialect." ''Acta Orientalia'' 12.1: 71-9. *1935. "A specimen of the Kūlung Dialect." ''Acta Orientalia'' 12.1: 35-43. *1934. "On the Prefixes and Consonantal Finals of Si-Hia as evidenced by their Chinese and Tibetan transcriptions." ''Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland'' (New Series) 66.4: 745-770. *1934. Review of Dialects of Tibet; the Tibetan Dialect of Lahul, by Georges de Roerich. 10 x 7, pp 1 + 107. New York and Naggar, Kulu, Punjab: Urusvati Himalayan Research Institute of the Roerich Museum, n.d., 1933. ''Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland'' (New Series) 66.4: 843-843. *1935. "Note on the tribal name Mes (Mech)." ''Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland'' (New Series) 67.1: 145-146. *1935. "A specimen of the Thūlung Dialect." ''Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland'' (New Series) 67.4: 629-53. *1936. "Notes on the Jyarong dialect of eastern Tibet. ''T'oung Pao'' ser. 2, 32.2/3:167-204. *1936. "On certain alternations between dental finals in Tibetan and Chinese." ''Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland'' (New Series) 68.3: 401-416. *1937. "Concerning the variation of final consonants in the word families of Tibetan, Kachin and Chinese." ''Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland'' (New Series) 69.4: 625-655. *1938. Review of A Dictionary of the Classical Newārī, by Hans Jørgensen. Det Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab Historisk-filologiske Meddelelser, XXIII, i. 9½ × 6, pp. 178. København: Levin and Munksgaard, 1936. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (New Series) 70.3: 444-446. *1938. "Concerning the origins of Tibetan brgi̯ad and Chinese 八 'pwât'." ''T'oung Pao'' 34.3: 165-73. *1939. "On the restitution of final consonants in certain word types of Burmese." ''Acta Orientalia'' 17.2:153-168.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wolfenden, Stuart N. 1938 deaths Linguists from the United States Historical linguists Linguists of Sino-Tibetan languages American orientalists University of California, Berkeley faculty 1889 births 20th-century linguists