Recent Advances in Old Chinese Historical Phonology
THIS EVENT IS ARCHIVED
Date: 5 November 2015Time: 9:20 AM
Finishes: 6 November 2015Time: 5:30 PM
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Type of Event: Workshop
The study of the Old Chinese language and early Chinese texts are both enjoying rapid progress. Nonetheless, these two currents of research seldom inform one another to the extent that is possible. Taking advantage of the recent publication of Baxter and Sagart’s Old Chinese: A New Reconstruction (Oxford, 2014) this workshop aims to bring together historical linguists and philologists to consider the recent achievements and future prospects for research on Old Chinese. The choice of participants especially aims to encourage early career philologists to engage with relevant phonological research.
Recordings
Schedule
| Date/Time | Description |
|---|---|
| Thursday, 5 November 2015 | |
| 9:20am | Coffee and tea |
| 9:50am | Nathan W. Hill (SOAS, University of London): Welcome |
| 10:00am | Johann-Mattis List (CRLAO, CNRS): Using Network Models to Analyze Old Chinese Rhyme Data |
| 10:40am | Christoph Harbsmeier (Oslo): Unrefutable Conjectures |
| 11:20am | Coffee and tea |
| 11:40am | Marc Miyake (British Museum): OC type A/type B in areal perspective |
| 12:20pm | Laurent Sagart (CRLAO, CNRS) and William H. Baxter (Michigan): OC type A/type B vs. Lushai long/short |
| 12:20pm | Lunch |
| 2:20pm | Marco Caboara (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology): Baxter and Sagart’s usage of recently excavated Chu manuscript sources |
| 3:00pm | Matthias L. Richter (University of Colorado at Boulder): Limitations to the phonetic source value of manuscript characters |
| 3:40pm | Coffee and tea |
| 4:00pm | Lai Yunfan (Paris III): Rgyalrongic vs Old Chinese initials: How (dis)similar are they? |
| 4:40pm | Wolfgang Behr (Zurich): Summation |
| 5:20pm | End |
| Friday, 6 November 2015 | |
| 9:20am | Coffee and tea |
| 10:00am | Mark J. Alves (Montgomery College): Assessing OC Loanwords in Vietnamese via Historical and Archaeological Data |
| 10:40am | Xun Gong (CRLAO, CNRS): How Old is the Chinese in Bái? |
| 11:20am | Coffee and tea |
| 11:40am | Guillaume Jacques (CRLAO, CNRS): How many *-s suffixes in Old Chinese? A view from Gyalrongic and Kiranti |
| 12:20pm | Yeshy T. Sotrug (Berne): A prefix without a cause – The OC *p-prefix and its tentative TB cognates |
| 1:00pm | Lunch |
| 2:20pm | Hannes A. Fellner (Vienna): Linguistic Contact between Ancient Indo-European Languages and Old Chinese |
| 3:00pm | Haeree Park (Hamburg): Dialect borrowings in Old Chinese |
| 3:40pm | Coffee and tea |
| 4:00pm | Lin Deng (Arizona State University): The Reconstruction of the Demonstratives zhī/*tə 之, shì/*deʔ (?) 是, and cǐ/*tsheʔ (?) 此 |
| 4:40pm | Laurent Sagart (CRLAO, CNRS): Summation |
| 5:20pm | End |
Admission
Admission is by invitation only.
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