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
Study materials:
Online course on Sino-Tibetan historical linguistics
Introduction to Chinese historical phonology
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.