Nathan W. Hill

• SOAS University of London
• Trinity College Dublin

Nathan W. Hill
Hill at SOAS in 2013
Born	Nathan Wayne Hill (1979-07-08) July 8, 1979 (age 46)
Academic background
Alma mater	Harvard University
Doctoral advisor	Leonard van der Kuijp
Main interests	Sino-Tibetan languages Historical linguistics

Nathan Wayne Hill (born July 8, 1979) is an American historical linguist and Tibetologist specializing in languages of the Sino-Tibetan family, in particular Tibetic languages.

He is Sam Lam Professor in Chinese Studies and director of the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies at Trinity College Dublin. ^[1] He was previously reader in Tibetan and historical linguistics at SOAS, East Asian Languages and Cultures, and served as head of department from 2017 to 2019. ^{[2] [ dead link ]}

He is particularly well known for his work on comparative Sino-Tibetan, Old Tibetan philology, as well as linguistic typology (especially mirativity and evidentiality).^{[ citation needed ]}

From 2014 to 2020, Hill was a principal investigator on Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State, a project funded by the European Research Council and hosted by the British Museum. ^{[3] [ failed verification ] [4] [ failed verification ]} During the academic year 2015–2016 he was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, ^{[5] [ dead link ]} and in 2020–2021 at Oxford's Oriental Institute. ^{[6] [ dead link ]}

Works

• Hill, Nathan W. (2010a), "Overview of Old Tibetan synchronic phonology" (PDF), Transactions of the Philological Society, 108 (2): 110–125, CiteSeerX   10.1.1.694.8283 , doi:10.1111/j.1467-968X.2010.01234.x, archived (PDF) from the original on 28 July 2013.
• —— (2010b), "Personal pronouns in Old Tibetan" (PDF), Journal Asiatique, 298 (2): 549–571, doi:10.2143/JA.298.2.2062444, archived (PDF) from the original on 1 August 2013.
• —— (2011), "The allative, locative, and terminative cases (la-don) in the Old Tibetan Annals", New Studies in the Old Tibetan Documents: Philology, History and Religion (PDF), Old Tibetan Documents Online Monograph Series, vol. 3, Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, pp. 3–38, archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-11-05, retrieved 2017-05-01.
• —— (2012). "Tibetan -las, -nas, and -bas" (PDF). Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale. 41 (1): 3–38. doi:10.1163/1960602812X00014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-09.
• Hill, Nathan W. (2012). "'Mirativity' does not exist: ḥdug in 'Lhasa' Tibetan and other suspects". Linguistic Typology. 16 (3): 389–433. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.694.8358 . doi:10.1515/lity-2012-0016. S2CID   55007142.
• Hill, Nathan W. (2012), "The six vowel hypothesis of Old Chinese in comparative context", Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics, 6 (2): 1–69, doi:10.1163/2405478x-90000100.
• —— (2014), "Cognates of Old Chinese *-n, *-r, and *-j in Tibetan and Burmese", Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, 43 (2): 91–109, doi:10.1163/19606028-00432p02, S2CID   170371949
• Hill, Nathan W. (2015). "Hare lõ: the touchstone of mirativity". SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics. 13 (2): 24–31.
• Hill, Nathan W., ed. (2012), Mediaeval Tibeto-Burman Languages IV. Leiden and Boston: Brill. ^[7]
• Gawne, Lauren; Hill, Nathan W., eds. (2017), Evidential Systems of Tibetan Languages, Studies and Monographs [TiLSM], vol. 302, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton
• Hill, Nathan W. (2019), The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN   9781107146488 . ^{[8] [9]}

References

1. "Professor Nathan Hill - Director of the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies - Trinity Centre for Asian Studies - Trinity College Dublin".
2. "Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures - SOAS University of London". www.soas.ac.uk.
3. "Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State". British Museum. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
4. "About the Project". Archived from the original on 29 January 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
5. "Nathan Hill: Buddhist Studies Program Visiting Professor". University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
6. "Nathan W. Hill". University of Oxford. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
7. Driem, George van (2014-01-01). "Review: 'Nathan W. Hill (ed.): Mediaeval Tibeto-Burman Languages IV. (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library. Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region.) x, 480 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012. €163. ISBN978 90 04 23202 0'". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies.
8. Geissler, Christopher (August 2020). "Nathan W. Hill (2019). The historical phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xiv + 373". Phonology. 37 (3): 495–500. doi:10.1017/S0952675720000196. ISSN   0952-6757.
9. Jacques, Guillaume (2021-04-16). "Review of Hill (2019): The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese". Journal of Historical Linguistics. 11 (1): 143–158. doi:10.1075/jhl.20001.jac. ISSN   2210-2116.

External links

• SOAS web page
• Academia.edu profile
• Google Scholar citations
• 'Why Does Tibetan Stack its Letters' (YouTube)
• 'Sino-Tibetan Languages Introduction and Historical Perspective' (YouTube)
• 'Current research themes in Sino-Tibetan comparative linguistics' (YouTube)
• 'Methods in Sino-Tibetan linguistics' (YouTube)