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First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], vii, [1], 267, [3]; printed from typescript; tables and diagrams in the text; generally a fine copy in original limp green cloth lettered in black on upper cover and spine. Issued as volume 16 in the publisher's Monumenta Serindica series. Four-page errata laid in, as issued. Jackson Tianshin Sun "is a Taiwanese linguist working on languages of the Sino-Tibetan and Austroasiatic families. He is best known for his pioneering documentation and historical-comparative work in Tani, Rgyalrongic, and Tibetic languages. Sun is a research fellow at Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan" (Wikipedia). This work is the basis of his master's thesis at the National Taiwan Normal University, and it is his first book. He earned his Ph.D. at Berkeley and has at least two dozen papers and four other books to his credit.