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| Born | August 20, 1902 Guangzhou, Guangdong | ||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 21 August 1987 (aged 85) San Mateo County, California, United States | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Thesis | Mattole: An Athabaskan Language (1928) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Doctoral advisor | Edward Sapir | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Linguistics | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Chinese | 李方桂 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Li Fang-Kuei (Chinese: 李方桂; 20 August 1902 – 21 August 1987) was a Chinese linguist known for his studies of the varieties of Chinese, his reconstructions of Old Chinese and Proto-Tai, and his documentation of Dene languages in North America.