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.

Gnosis and “Gnosticism” in Alevi and Bektāşī Syncretism. Disputed Origins and New Directions for Research (2016)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2016). Gnosis and “Gnosticism” in Alevi and Bektāşī Syncretism. Disputed Origins and New Directions for Research. In M. A. Amir-Moezzi, M. De Cillis, D. De Smet, & O. Mir-Kasimov (Eds.), L'Ésotérisme shi'ite, ses racines et ses prolongements Shi'i Esotericism: Its Roots and Developments (723-742). Belgium. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.BEHE-EB.4.01193

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.

On the cognitive basis of contact-induced sound change: Vowel merger reversal in Shanghainese (2016)
Journal Article
Yao, Y., & Chang, C. B. (2016). On the cognitive basis of contact-induced sound change: Vowel merger reversal in Shanghainese. Language, 92(2), 433-467. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2016.0031

This study investigated the source and status of a recent sound change in Shanghainese (Wu, Sinitic) that has been attributed to language contact with Mandarin. The change involves two vowels, /e/ and /ɛ/, reported to be merged three decades ago but... Read More about On the cognitive basis of contact-induced sound change: Vowel merger reversal in Shanghainese.

Iridescent Iran: Persian palimpsest, Mazdean mosaic (2016)
Book Chapter
Waghmar, B. (2016). Iridescent Iran: Persian palimpsest, Mazdean mosaic. In S. Cama (Ed.), Threads of Continuity: Zoroastrian Life and Culture (215-224). Parzor Foundation

Transcultural Corporeity in Taiyozoku Youth Cinema. Some Notes on the Contradictions of Japaneseness in the Economic Miracle. (2016)
Book Chapter
Centeno, M. (2016). Transcultural Corporeity in Taiyozoku Youth Cinema. Some Notes on the Contradictions of Japaneseness in the Economic Miracle. In A. Becker, & K. Adachi-Rabe (Eds.), Presentation of Bodies in Japanese Films / Körperinszenierungen im japanischen Film (143-160). Büchner-Verlag

Japanese visual culture offers countless examples of mutable corporeity and metamorphosis processes, which often imply internal as well as external changes in characters, with which the Japanese notion of “body” (shintai) certainly acquires distinct... Read More about Transcultural Corporeity in Taiyozoku Youth Cinema. Some Notes on the Contradictions of Japaneseness in the Economic Miracle..

1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China (2016)
Book
Tan, T. Y. (2016). T. Y. Tan, P. Edmondson, & S.-P. Wang (Eds.). 1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China. Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781472587206

The year is 1616. William Shakespeare has just died and the world of the London theatres is mourning his loss. 1616 also saw the death of the famous Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu. Four hundred years on and Shakespeare is now an important meeting pla... Read More about 1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China.