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A refutation of Song's (2014) explanation of the 'stop coda problem' in Old Chinese (2016)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2016). A refutation of Song's (2014) explanation of the 'stop coda problem' in Old Chinese. International Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 3(2), 270-281. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijchl.3.2.04hil

Song (2014) draws renewed attention to the problem of groups of Chinese words in which the character used to write one of the words has a stop final reading in Middle Chinese but the character used to write another of the words has an open syllable r... Read More about A refutation of Song's (2014) explanation of the 'stop coda problem' in Old Chinese.

Tibetan *-as > -os (2016)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2016). Tibetan *-as > -os. International journal of diachronic linguistics and linguistic reconstruction, 12, 163-173

Both Jacques (2010) and Zeisler (2015) propose explanations for the synchronically unexpected past zos of the Tibetan verb 'eat'. After evaluating their proposals, this essay suggests that zos is the regular outcome of a sound change *as > -os, the r... Read More about Tibetan *-as > -os.

Introduction (to Special Issue on Tibetan Natural Language Processing) (2016)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W., & Di, J. (2016). Introduction (to Special Issue on Tibetan Natural Language Processing). Himalayan linguistics, 15(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.5070/H915131516

This introduction surveys research on Tibetan NLP, both in China and in the West, as well as contextualizing the articles contained in the special issue.

Himalayan Linguistics 15.1 (Special Issue on Tibetan Natural Language Processing) (2016)
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Himalayan Linguistics 15.1 (Special Issue on Tibetan Natural Language Processing). Berkeley, CA

The evidence for Chinese *-r (2016)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2016). The evidence for Chinese *-r. Bulletin of Chinese linguistics, 9(2), 190-204. https://doi.org/10.1163/2405478X-00902003

Starostin (1989) proposes that Old Chinese had a final *-r that later changed to -n (and sometimes -j). Baxter & Sagart (2014a) incorporate Starostin's proposal in their recent Old Chinese reconstructions. This essay attempts to assemble the evidence... Read More about The evidence for Chinese *-r.

Come as lord of the black-headed'- an Old Tibetan mythic formula (2016)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2016). Come as lord of the black-headed'- an Old Tibetan mythic formula. Zentralasiatische Studien des Seminars für Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft Zentralasiens der Universität Bonn, 45, 203-216