Richard Keith Sprigg

Dr Richard Keith Sprigg (born 1922) is a British linguist who specializes in the phonology of Asian languages. Sprigg was educated under J. R. Firth and is a member of the first generation of professional British linguists. Also as a consequence Sprigg is an advocate of the prosodic phonological method of Firth. Sprigg worked on several Tibeto-Burman languages including Lepcha, and various Tibetan dialects. He taught for many years at the School of Oriental and African Studies, and retired to Kalimpong, Sikkim.

Works of Sprigg

*Sprigg, Richard Keith. 1954 "Verbal Phrases in Lhasa Tibetan--I"."Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies" 16.1:134-156.

*Sprigg, Richard Keith. 1954 "Verbal Phrases in Lhasa Tibetan--II"."Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies" 16.2:320-350.

*Sprigg, Richard Keith. 1954 "Verbal Phrases in Lhasa Tibetan--III"."Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies" 16.3:566-591.

*Sprigg, Richard Keith. 1955 "The Tonal System of Tibetan (Lhasa Dialect) and the Nominal Phrase." "Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London" 17.1:133-153.

*Sprigg, Richard Keith. 1961. "Vowel harmony in Lhasa Tibetan, prosodic analysis applied to interrelated vocalic features of successive syllables." "Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies" 24: 116–138.

*Sprigg, Richard Keith. 1966. "Lepcha and Balti Tibetan, tonal or non tonal." "Asia Major," New Series. 12: 185–201.

*Sprigg, Richard Keith. 1966. “Phonological formulae for the verb in Limbu as a contribution to Tibeto-Burman comparison.” In: Charles Ernest Bazel et al. (eds.): "In memory of J.R. Firth." London: Longmans:431-53

*Sprigg, R.K. 1967. “Balti-Tibetan Verb Syllable Finals and a Prosodic Analysis.” "Asia Major" 13:187-210

*Sprigg, Richard Keith. 1968. "The role of 'R' in the development of the modern spoken Tibetan dialects." "Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae" 21.3. 301-311

*Sprigg, Richard Keith. 1970 “Vyajñanabhakti, and irregularities in the Tibetan Verb.” "Bulletin of Tibetology" 72: 5-20

*Sprigg, Richard Keith. 1972 "Assimilation, and the definite nominal particle in Balti Tibetan." 'Bulletin of Tibetology" 9.2: 5–19.

*Sprigg, Richard Keith. 1972 "A Polysystemic Approach, in Proto-Tibetan Reconstruction, to Tone and Syllable-Initial Consonant Clusters". "Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies" 35.3: 546-587.

*Sprigg, Richard Keith. 1974. "The main features of the Tibetan dialect." "Bulletin of Tibetology" 11.1: 11–15.

*Sprigg, Richard Keith. 1979. “The Golok dialect and Written Tibetan past-tense verb forms”. "Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies" 42:53-60

*Sprigg, Richard Keith. 1980. “‘Vocalic alternation’ in Balti, the Lhasa, and the Sherpa verb, as a guide to alternation in Written Tibetan, and to Proto-Tibetan Reconstruction”. "Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies" 43:110-122

*Sprigg, Richard Keith. 1980. "Vowel harmony in noun-and-particle words in the Tibetan of Baltistan." "Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies" 43: 511–519/AOH 34: 235–43.

*Sprigg, Richard Keith. 1981. “The Chang-Shefts tonal analysis, and the pitch variation of the Lhasa Tibetan tones.” "Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area" 6.1:49-60

*Sprigg, Richard Keith. 1985. “The Limbu s and t-final verb roots after Michailovsky 1979 and Weidert 1982.” Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 8/2:1-35

*Sprigg, Richard Keith (1987). “‘Rhinoglottophilia’ revisited: observations on ‘the mysterious connection between nasality and glottality.’” "Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area" 10.1. 44-62.

*Sprigg, Richard Keith. 1993. "Controversy in the tonal analysis of Tibetan." "Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies" 56: 470–501.

*Sprigg, Richard Keith. 1996. "My Balti-Tibetan and English dictionary, and its predecessors." "The Tibet Journal" 21.4: 3–22.

*Sprigg, Richard Keith. 1997 "A Tonal Analysis of Gurung, with Separate Systems for Register and Contour Pitch Features" "Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies" 60.3:448-454.

*Sprigg, Richard Keith (2002). "Balti-English English-Balti dictionary." Richmond: RoutledgeCurzon.

Reviews

*Sprigg, Richard Keith 1967. Review of "Grundlagen der Phonetik des Lhasa-Dialektes" by Eberhardt Richter and "A Manual of Spoken Tibetan (Lhasa dialect)", by Kun Chang and Betty Shefts "Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies" 30.1: 210-216.

*Sprigg, Richard Keith (1967). (Review of Róna-Tas "Tibeto-Mongolica: The Loanwords of Mongour and the Development of the Archaic Tibetan Dialects." Indo-Iranian Monographs 7. The Hague: Mouton. 1966). "Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies" 30.1: 216-217.

*Sprigg, Richard Keith (1973). (Review of Paul Benedict. "A Conspectus of Sino-Tibetan" Cambridge University Press. 1972)"Asia Major" 19.1: 100-106.

*Sprigg, Richard Keith (1974). (Review of James A. Matisoff's) “The Loloish Tonal Split Revisited.” "Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies" 37.1: 259-262.

*Sprigg, Richard Keith. 1986. (Review of Roland Bielmeier, "Das Märchen vom Prinzen Čobzaŋ"). "Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area" 9.2: 83–89.

*Sprigg, Richard Keith. 1989. “Review of A Grammar of Limbu by George van Driem.” "Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies" 52.1:163-5

External links

* [http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/destinations/india/article2234682.ece Tales from a Himalayan hill station; The Times]