書評 Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman: System and Philosophy of Sino-Tibetan Reconstruction By James A. Matisoff. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

Review of Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman: System and Philosophy of Sino-Tibetan Reconstruction By James A. Matisoff. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

馬蒂索夫 (2003) 憑藉數十年的研究，提出許多新的同源詞，給藏緬語語言學作出了重要的貢獻。然而，馬蒂索夫引用藏語時出現不少事實及分析的謬誤，削弱其各項重構的可信性。

Proposing many new cognate sets and building on many decades of his own previous research, Matisoff (2003) represents a major contribution to TibetoBurman linguistics. Unfortunately, Matisoff’s use of Tibetan is marred by errors of fact and analysis, which together undermine confidence in his reconstructions.