Richard Keith Sprigg
Richard Keith Sprigg was a British linguist who specialised in the phonology of Asian languages. Sprigg was educated under J. R. Firth and was a member of the first generation of professional British linguists. Also as a consequence Sprigg was an advocate of the prosodic phonological method of Firth. Sprigg worked on several Tibeto-Burman languages including Lepcha, and various Tibetan dialects. He taught for many years at the School of Oriental and African Studies, and retired to Kalimpong, West Bengal, India with his wife Ray, granddaughter of David Macdonald the author of The Land of the Lama and 20 Years in Tibet, until her death.
In 2000 he returned to UK and lived in retirement with his second wife Elisabeth in Crowborough, East Sussex, England.
Works
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "Hunting the things they say." Himalayan Times, Kalimpong.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. ".Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 16.1:134–156.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "".Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 16.2:320–350.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "".Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 16.3:566–591.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 17.1:133–153. reprinted in Frank R. Palmer, ed. Prosodic analysis, 112–132. London: Oxford University Press, 1970.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "." Proceedings of the 23rd Congress of Orientalists, Cambridge, 1954, 262–263. London: Royal Asiatic Society.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "" Studies in linguistic analysis, 104–138. Oxford: Blackwell.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "" Akten des vierundzwanzigsten Internationalen Orientalisten-Kongresses München 28. August bis 4. September 1957. Herbert Franke, ed. Wiesbaden : Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, in Kommission bei Franz Steiner Verlag. pp. 590–592.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "" Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 24: 116–138. reprinted in F.R. Palmer, ed. Prosodic Analysis., 230–252. London: Oxford University Press 1970.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "." H.L. Shorto, ed. Linguistic comparison in South East Asia and the Pacific. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, 79–108.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "." Shorto, H.L. Linguistic Comparison in South East Asia and the Pacific.London: School of Oriental and African Studies, 109–132.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "Vowel harmony in Lhasa Tibetan." Труды двадцать пятого Международного конгресса востоковедов, Москва 9–16 августа 1960 / Trudy dvadt︠s︡atʹ pi︠a︡togo Mezhdunarodnogo kongressa vostokovedov, Moskva 9–16 avgusta 1960, 5:189–194.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "." Journal of the Burma Research Society 47.2: 415–444.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "" Anthropological Linguistics 7/6 part 2:59–81, reprinted in Journal of the Burma Research Society 50.2, 1967: 263–284.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "." Asia Major 12: 185–201.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "." Charles Ernest Bazel et al. : In memory of J.R. Firth. London: Longmans: 431-53
- Sprigg, Richard Keith "" Bulletin of Tibetology 3.1: 5–14.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "." Asia Major
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "." Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 21.3. 301–311
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. . PhD dissertation, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "." Bulletin of Tibetology 7.1: 17–19.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "." Bulletin of Tibetology 7.2: 5–20
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "." 'Bulletin of Tibetology 9.2: 5–19.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 35.3: 546–587.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "." Journal of the International Phonetic Association 4.1: 20–30.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "." Proceedings of the Eleventh International Congress of Linguists, Bologna-Florence 1972, 1:667–671. Bologna: il Mulino.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "." Bulletin of Tibetology 11.1: 11–15.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "." Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 2.2: 173–181.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "" Tibetan Review 11.4: 14–16.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "Tonal units and tonal classification: Panjabi, Tibetan and Burmese." H.S. Gill, ed. Parole and Langue. Pakha Sanjam 8 : 1–21.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "" Journal of the International Phonetic Association 8.1–2: 2–17.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 42:53–60
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 43:110–122
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "" Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 43: 511–519/AOH 34: 235–43.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "." Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 6.1:49–60
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "The Lepcha language and three hundred years of Tibetan influence in Sikkim." Journal of the Asiatic Society 24: 16–31.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 46.2: 305–325.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "." Nepalese Linguistics 2: 1–22.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "." Nepalese Linguistic 3: 11–55.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "Alphabet, syllabary, and prosodic symbols in the Indic and Arabic scripts of South-East Asia." B.B. Rajapurohit, ed. Papers in phonetics and phonology, 111–140. Conference and Seminar Series, VI. Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. ".". Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 8.2 : 1–35
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "". G. Thurgood, J.A. Matisoff and D. Bradley, eds, Linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area: the state of the art. Papers presented to Paul K. Benedict for his 71st birthday. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. 105–115.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "." Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 9.1: 27–46.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. ".'" Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 10.1. 44–62.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. ".'" Contributions to South-East Asian linguistics: essays in honour of Eugenie J. A. Henderson. J. H. C. S. Davidso, ed. London: School of Orientlal and African Studies. 219–235.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith "." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 52.1: 91–114.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith, "", Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 33–56
- Sprigg, Richard Keith, ", vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 93–131.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "." Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 15. 1: 39–52.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 56: 470–501.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "." Bulletin of Tibetology. Volume 31, pp 88–92
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "." The Tibet Journal 21.4: 3–22.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "A foreigner studies heroes of the Lepcha race." King Gaeboo Achyok Birth Anniversary 1996. Kalimpong: King Gaeboo Achyok Birth Anniversary Committee, 6–25.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "Lepcha orthography: An earlier and later stage." David Bradley ed., Tibeto-Burman languages of the Himalayas, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, 175–182.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 60.3: 448–454.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "." Aachuley: A Quarterly Lepcha Bilingual News Magazine 1:2, 9–11.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "." Nepalese Linguistics 15, 1–18.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "." Aachuley: A Quarterly Lepcha Bilingual News Magazine 2.1: 14–19.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "The Lepcha text of the deed of grant of Darjeeling." Aachuley: A Quarterly Lepcha Bilingual News Magazine 2.2: 4–11.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "Dr. Hooker's Lepcha treasurer." Aachuley: A Quarterly Lepcha Bilingual News Magazine 2.3: 5–8.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "An appeal to Captain Lloyd by Kazi Gorok, of Ilam." Aachuley: A Quarterly Lepcha Bilingual News Magazine 3.1: 5–11.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "The Lepcha Raja." Aachuley: A Quarterly Lepcha Bilingual News Magazine 3.2: 6–7.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "An Anglo-Lepcha and 'Linguistic Survey of India'." Aachuley: A Quarterly Lepcha Bilingual News Magazine 3.3: 5–18.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. Balti-English English-Balti dictionary. Richmond: RoutledgeCurzon.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "". York Papers in Linguistics 4: 125–156.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. ".' York Papers in Linguistics 4: pp. 157–188.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. Shedding some light on the history, language, and literature of the Lepchas. Kalimpong: Indigenous Lepcha Tribal Association.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "Tibetan orthography, the Balti dialect, and a contemporary phonological theory." Linguistics of the Himalayas and beyond. Roland Bielmeier and Felix Haller, eds. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Reviews
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. Review of ' 2. by Halfdan Siiger; Jorgen Rischel.' Man, 2. p. 487.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. Review of by Eberhardt Richter and A Manual of Spoken Tibetan , by Kun Chang and Betty Shefts Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 30.1: 210–216.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith A Tibeti mássalhangzókapsolatok fonetikai problémái, translated A. Róna-Tas. Tudományos Akadémia I, Oszt. Kozl. 25: 161–167.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith.. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 30.1: 216–217.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. Review of Robbins Burling, . Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 31.3: 648–649.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 32. p. 231.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. Review of D.N.S. Bhat, . Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 33.2: 419–420.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. Review of D.N.S. Bhat, . Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 34.2: 427–428.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. Review article of Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 2: 163–171.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. Asia Major 19.1: 100–106.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. "" Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 37.1: 259–262.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 38.2: 461–463.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 39.2: 513.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 41.1: 184–185.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 42. pp. 393–394.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith.. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 9.2: 83–89.
- Sprigg, Richard Keith. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 52.1:163-5
- Sprigg, Richard Keith.. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 53.1: 155–157.
Works in Honour of R. K. Sprigg
- Prosodic analysis and Asian linguistics: to honour R.K. Sprigg. David Bradley, Eugénie J.A. Henderson, and Martine Mazaudon, eds. Canberra: Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1989.
Obituaries of R. K. Sprigg
- Kelly, John. "In Memoriam: Richard Keith Sprigg." Journal of the International Phonetic Association 42.1: 119–120.
- Heleen Plaisier. "" European Bulletin of Himalayan Research 38: 166–168.
- Mazaudon, Martine. "Obituary of Richard Keith Sprigg." Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 34.2: 133.