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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

The lexicography of Tibetan (2017)
Book Chapter
Hill, N. W., & Garrett, E. The lexicography of Tibetan. In P. Hanks, & G.-M. de Schryver (Eds.), International Handbook of Modern Lexis and Lexicography (1-11). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45369-4_109-1

This chapter provides an overview of Tibetan lexicography, from the ninth century to today. While most Tibetan dictionaries were compiled in an ad hoc manner, some used citation collections. Electronic corpora have been built for Tibetan, but they ha... Read More about The lexicography of Tibetan.

Simon, Walter (1893-1981) (2017)
Book Chapter
Hill, N. W. (2017). Simon, Walter (1893-1981). In R. Sybesma, W. Behr, Y. Gu, Z. Handel, C.-T. J. Huang, & J. Myers (Eds.), Encylopedia of Chinese Linguage and Linguistics (100-102). Brill

Biography of Walter Simon, a major Sinologist of the 20th century.

Languages: Tibetan (2015)
Book Chapter
Hill, N. W. (2015). Languages: Tibetan. In J. A. Silk (Ed.), Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Volume One (917-924). Brill

A Constraint Grammar POS-Tagger for Tibetan (2015)
Book Chapter
Garrett, E., & Hill, N. W. (2015). A Constraint Grammar POS-Tagger for Tibetan. In E. Bick, & K. Hagen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on “Constraint Grammar - methods, tools and applications” at NODALIDA 2015, May 11-13, 2015 (19-22). Institute of the Lithuanian Language

This paper describes a rule-based part-of speech tagger for Tibetan, implemented in Constraint Grammar and with rules operating over sequences of syllables rather than words.

Tibetan (2015)
Book Chapter
Simon, C., & Hill, N. W. (2015). Tibetan. In N. Grandi, & L. Körtvélyessy (Eds.), Edinburgh Handbook of Evaluative Morphology (381-388). Edinburgh University Press

Sino-Tibetan: Part 2 Tibetan (2014)
Book Chapter
Hill, N. W. (2014). Sino-Tibetan: Part 2 Tibetan. In R. Lieber, & P. Štekauer (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology (620-630). Oxford University Press

A Gter ma of Negatives. H.E. Richardson's photographic negatives of manuscript copies of Tibetan Imperial Inscriptions possibly collected by Rig 'dzin Tshe dbang nor bu in the 18th Century CE recently found in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (2014)
Book Chapter
Manson, C., & Hill, N. W. (2014). A Gter ma of Negatives. H.E. Richardson's photographic negatives of manuscript copies of Tibetan Imperial Inscriptions possibly collected by Rig 'dzin Tshe dbang nor bu in the 18th Century CE recently found in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. In K. Tropper (Ed.), Epigraphic Evidence in the Pre-modern Buddhist World: Proceedings of the Eponymous Conference Held in Vienna, 14-15 Oct. 2011 (83-115). Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistischen Studien, Universität Wien

Tibeto-Burman *dz- > Tibetan z- and Related Proposals (2014)
Book Chapter
Hill, N. W. (2014). Tibeto-Burman *dz- > Tibetan z- and Related Proposals. In R. V. Simmons, & N. A. van Auken (Eds.), Studies in Chinese and Sino-Tibetan Linguistics: Dialect, Phonology, Transcription and Text (167-178). Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica

Conrady, Li and others have noticed the Tibetan sound changes *ḫz > ḫdz and *ḫź > ḫǰ, but there is also evidence for the changes *dz > z and *ǰ > ź (first noted by Schiefner). After presenting the evidence for *dz > z and *ǰ > ź respectively, this pa... Read More about Tibeto-Burman *dz- > Tibetan z- and Related Proposals.

Introduction (2014)
Book Chapter
Owen-Smith, T., & Hill, N. W. (2014). Introduction. In T. Owen-Smith, & N. W. Hill (Eds.), Trans-Himalayan Linguistics: Historical and Descriptive Linguistics of the Himalayan Area (1-10). Mouton de Gruyter

Come as lord of the black-headed: an Old Tibetan mythic formula (2013)
Book Chapter
Hill, N. W. (2013). Come as lord of the black-headed: an Old Tibetan mythic formula. In C. Cüppers, R. Mayer, & M. Walter (Eds.), Tibet after Empire Culture, Society and Religion between 850-1000 (169-179). Lumbini International Research Institute

Love poems of the sixth Dalai Lama (2013)
Book Chapter
Hill, N. W., & Fee, T. (2013). Love poems of the sixth Dalai Lama. In K. R. Schaeffer, M. Kapstein, & G. Tuttle (Eds.), Sources of the Tibetan Tradition (557-559). Columbia University Press