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Grouping sounds into evolving units for the purpose of historical language comparison (2024)
Journal Article
List, J., Hill, N. W., Blum, F., & Juárez, C. (2024). Grouping sounds into evolving units for the purpose of historical language comparison. Open Research Europe, 4(31), https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.16839.1

Computer-assisted approaches to historical language comparison have made great progress during the past two decades. Scholars can now routinely use computational tools to annotate cognate sets, align words, and search for regularly recurring sound co... Read More about Grouping sounds into evolving units for the purpose of historical language comparison.

Printed Text Recognition for Lexical Lists in Chinese- International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) Glossing (2023)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W., & Li, S. (2023). Printed Text Recognition for Lexical Lists in Chinese- International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) Glossing. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 9(15), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.119

This study presents a dataset serving as a benchmark for the recognition of printed text in lexical lists using Chinese-IPA glossing. The paper provides an overview of the baseline model, transcription model, and PyLaia engines employed in the resear... Read More about Printed Text Recognition for Lexical Lists in Chinese- International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) Glossing.

Chinese Transcription of Buddhist Terms in the Late Hàn Dynasty (2023)
Journal Article
Baley, J., Hill, N. W., & Caldwell, E. (2023). Chinese Transcription of Buddhist Terms in the Late Hàn Dynasty. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 9(10), https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.110

This dataset is a compilation of Chinese transcriptions of Buddhist terms produced by translators from the late Hàn period. It is a compilation of the previous works of Coblin (1983), Karashima (2010), Vetter (2012), Hill, Nattier, Granger, and Kollm... Read More about Chinese Transcription of Buddhist Terms in the Late Hàn Dynasty.

Review of: Andrew B. Liu: Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asia Institute of Columbia University.) xi, 360 pp. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. $50. ISBN 978 0 30024373 4. (2023)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2023). Review of: Andrew B. Liu: Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asia Institute of Columbia University.) xi, 360 pp. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. $50. ISBN 978 0 30024373 4. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 86(1), 198-200. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X23000435

Origin of the r- allomorph of the Tibetan causative s- (2023)
Book Chapter
Hill, N. W. (2023). Origin of the r- allomorph of the Tibetan causative s-. In K. Schaeffer, W. McGrath, & J. Liang (Eds.), Histories of Tibet: Essays in honor of Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp (106-114). Wisdom Publications

Making and agreeing to requests in Old Tibetan (2023)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2023). Making and agreeing to requests in Old Tibetan. Himalayan linguistics, 21(1), 29-39. https://doi.org/10.5070/H921156970

The verbs གསོལ་ gsol `request' and གནང་ gnaṅ `agree, grant', because of theircomplementary semantics and parallel syntax, provide a convenient windowthrough which to caste light on the two forms of subordinate clausesthat they both govern, namely inf... Read More about Making and agreeing to requests in Old Tibetan.

An Indological transcription of Middle Chinese (2023)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2023). An Indological transcription of Middle Chinese. Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, 52(1), 40-50. https://doi.org/10.1163/19606028-bja10028

Because most Sino-Tibetan languages with a literary tradition use Indic derived scripts and those that do not are each sui generis, there are advantages to transcribing these languages also along Indic lines. In particular, this article proposes an I... Read More about An Indological transcription of Middle Chinese.

Negation, Accommodation and Thought-ascription— On The Inferential Meaning of Connectives in Mandarin Chinese (2023)
Thesis
Xue, L. Negation, Accommodation and Thought-ascription— On The Inferential Meaning of Connectives in Mandarin Chinese. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The meanings of Mandarin adverbs often display a chameleonic nature. Some of them, like propositional connectives, are used as Boolean operators and can be readily translated as such in a logical way. However, in the specific conversational context,... Read More about Negation, Accommodation and Thought-ascription— On The Inferential Meaning of Connectives in Mandarin Chinese.

Text Recognition for Nepalese Manuscripts in Pracalit Script (2022)
Journal Article
O’Neill, A. J., & Hill, N. W. (2022). Text Recognition for Nepalese Manuscripts in Pracalit Script. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 8(26), https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.90

This dataset is a model for handwritten text recognition (HTR) of Sanskrit and Newar Nepalese manuscripts in Pracalit script. This paper introduces the state of the field in Newar literature, Newar manuscripts, and HTR engines. It explains our method... Read More about Text Recognition for Nepalese Manuscripts in Pracalit Script.

The SIGTYP 2022 Shared Task on the Prediction of Cognate Reflexes (2022)
Journal Article
List, J.-M., Vylomova, E., Forkel, R., Hill, N. W., & Cotterell, R. D. (2022). The SIGTYP 2022 Shared Task on the Prediction of Cognate Reflexes

This study describes the structure and the results of the SIGTYP 2022 shared task on the prediction of cognate reflexes from multilingual wordlists. We asked participants to submit systems that would predict words in individual languages with the hel... Read More about The SIGTYP 2022 Shared Task on the Prediction of Cognate Reflexes.

The e-grade in Tibetan Honorifics (2022)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2022). The e-grade in Tibetan Honorifics. Bulletin of Chinese linguistics, 15, 479-483. https://doi.org/10.30184/BCL.202212_15.0027

Hill (2019a) compares Tib. mkhan ‘know’ with Chi. 見 kenH ‘see’ as evidence for the antiquity of ablaut in the Sino-Tibetan verbal system. Jacques (2020) raises objections to this comparison, which this article aims to answer. The proposed solution i... Read More about The e-grade in Tibetan Honorifics.