Historical phonology

Speaker: Guillaume Jacques

Time: 6 pm CET 18 November, 2 December

Dr. Guillaume Jacques is currently Senior Researcher at the Center for East Asian Linguistics (Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l’Asie orientale; CRLAO). He mainly researches the Gyalrongic languages, in particular the Japhug language, as well as the Khaling language, a member of the Kiranti languages with interests in language documentation, typology (especially voice and indexation), panchronic linguistics, neogrammarian historical linguistics, language phylogeny and ethnolinguistics. His most recent projects include his new book, A Grammar of Japhug, published by the Language Science Press in Berlin in 2021, and the compilation of a Khaling-Nepali-English verb dictionary, which is available in the online academic archive HAL.

Reference materials

Databases

韻典網

經典釋文

Study materials:

Online course on Sino-Tibetan historical linguistics

Introduction to Chinese historical phonology

Middle Chinese

Bibliography

Baxter, William H. III. 1992.  A Handbook of Old Chinese Phonology. Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs 64. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Baxter, William H., and Laurent Sagart. 2014. Old Chinese: a new reconstruction. New York: Oxford University Press. downloads

Downer, Gordon B. 1959. Derivation by tone-change in Classical Chinese. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 22(1/3). pp. 258–290.

Jacques, Guillaume. 2016. How many *-s suffixes in Old Chinese? Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics 9(2). 205–217. link

Jacques, Guillaume. 2017. “Traditional Chinese Phonology.” In: Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics. Vol 4. Online access.

Sun, Yuwen. 2007. Hànyǔ biàndiào gòucí yánjiū 汉语变调构词研究. Beijing: Shangwu Yinshuguan.


Lecture 1 materials

Lecture 2 materials