Name Robert Jones | Role Linguist | |
Died November 23, 2007, Ithaca, New York, United States Books Karen linguistic studies, Thai titles and ranks, Spoken Vietnamese |
Rev robert b jones davy knowles crossroads blues 1 31 17 ellis library monroe mi
Robert Burton "RB" Jones (January 31, 1920 – November 23, 2007) was a linguist whose research focused on the South East Asian languages, in particular Karen, Burmese and Thai. He was a professor at Cornell University.
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- Rev robert b jones davy knowles crossroads blues 1 31 17 ellis library monroe mi
- Rev robert b jones sr at kalamazoo public library
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Jones studied music as an undergraduate at Southern Methodist University, particularly focusing on the organ. In 1941, he joined the United States Army for World War II and studied Japanese in the army. After the war he began he resumed his studies, this time at University of California, Berkeley, graduating 1947.
He finished a Ph.D. in Linguistics at Berkeley in 1958 under Mary Haas. He travelled on a Ford Foundation grant to Burma in 1957–58.
Jones taught at Georgetown University, the Foreign Service Institute of the State Department, and in 1955, started at Cornell University.
Jones retired from Cornell in 1986.