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Jerry Norman (sinologist) was born on 16 July, 1936 in Watsonville, California, U.S., is an American sinologist and linguist (1936–2012). Discover Jerry Norman (sinologist)'s Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?
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Watsonville, California, U.S. |
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7 July, 2012 |
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Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
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Jerry Norman (sinologist) Net Worth
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His family were migrant farmers who had fled the Dust Bowl conditions of Oklahoma in the mid-1930s.
He then continued at Berkeley as a graduate student, studying Chinese under the prominent Chinese linguist Y. R. Chao as well as Manchu and Mongolian under the American scholar James Bosson (1933–2016).
Jerry Lee Norman (July 16, 1936 – July 7, 2012) was an American sinologist and linguist known for his studies of varieties of Chinese, particularly Min varieties, and also of the Manchu language.
Norman had a large impact on Chinese linguistics, and was largely responsible for establishing the importance of Min varieties in the reconstruction of Old Chinese.
Jerry Norman was born on July 16, 1936, in Watsonville, California.
Norman entered the University of Chicago in the autumn of 1954 and majored in Russian, but was forced to withdraw after two years because of financial problems.
He was briefly a Catholic novitiate, then joined the U.S. Army and began studying at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in Monterey, California, where he was first introduced to the Chinese language.
After completing his military service, Norman enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating with a B.A. in 1961.
He earned an M.A. in 1965, and after working with Chinese linguist Leo Chen on a glossary of the Fuzhou dialect, in 1966 he joined the Chinese Linguistics Project at Princeton University as a staff linguist.
While at Princeton, Norman traveled to Taiwan to perform in field research on Taiwanese Hokkien, and in 1969 he received a Ph.D. from Berkeley with a dissertation entitled "The Kienyang Dialect of Fukien".
Norman was promoted to assistant professor after completing his Ph.D. in 1969.
While at Princeton, Norman met and married Stella Chen, and together they had four children.
In 1972, Norman moved with his family to Seattle, Washington to join the faculty of the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington, where he remained until his retirement in 1998.
Norman's scholarship focused on the Min dialects of Chinese, and was largely responsible for its recognition as an important tool for reconstructing the phonology of Old Chinese.
He was a passionate student of Manchu history and literature, and was one of the last North American scholars to be fluent and literate in Manchu.
He died of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in Seattle on July 7, 2012.