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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

The contribution of corpus linguistics to lexicography and the future of Tibetan dictionaries (2015)
Journal Article
Garrett, E., Hill, N. W., Kilgarriff, A., Vadlapudi, R., & Zadoks, A. (2015). The contribution of corpus linguistics to lexicography and the future of Tibetan dictionaries. Revue d'études tibétaines, 32, 51-86

The first alphabetized dictionary of Tibetan appeared in 1829 (cf. Bray 2008) and the intervening 184 years have witnessed the publication of scores of other Tibetan dictionaries (cf. Simon 1964). Hundreds of Tibetan dictionaries are now available; t... Read More about The contribution of corpus linguistics to lexicography and the future of Tibetan dictionaries.

Writers, Readers, and the Sharing of Consciousness: Five Nepali Novels (2014)
Journal Article
Hutt, M. (2014). Writers, Readers, and the Sharing of Consciousness: Five Nepali Novels. Himalaya (Portland, Or.), 34(2), 18-30

In his seminal book Literature, Popular Culture and Society, Leo Lowenthal argues that studies of the representation of society, state, or economy in the literature of a particular country or time contribute to our knowledge of ‘the kind of perceptio... Read More about Writers, Readers, and the Sharing of Consciousness: Five Nepali Novels.

SCA-UK Newsletter, vol. 10 (November 2014) (2014)
Journal Article
Khur-Yearn, J. (2014). SCA-UK Newsletter, vol. 10 (November 2014). SCA-UK Newsletter: Shan Cultural Association in the United Kingdom, 10, 1-30

The newsletter covers some latest news and articles on Shan cultural activities and updates on Shan studies.

Nepal's Internal Conversation (2014)
Newspaper / Magazine
Hutt, M. (2014). Nepal's Internal Conversation

Interview with Michael Hutt about his career as a scholar and translator of Nepali literature

Bilingual perceptual benefits of experience with a heritage language (2014)
Journal Article
Chang, C. B. Bilingual perceptual benefits of experience with a heritage language. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 19(4), 791-809. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728914000261

Research on the linguistic knowledge of heritage speakers has been concerned primarily with the advantages conferred by heritage language experience in production, perception, and (re)learning of the heritage language. Meanwhile, second-language spee... Read More about Bilingual perceptual benefits of experience with a heritage language.

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

A Typological Perspective on Classical Mongolian Indirect Speech (2014)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2014). A Typological Perspective on Classical Mongolian Indirect Speech. Central Asiatic journal, 56, 11-18. https://doi.org/10.13173/centasiaj.56.2013.0011

Classical Mongolian has two types of speech, direct speech and hybrid indirect speech. However, due to subsequent simplifications, we can re-label ' hybrid indirect
speech' as 'indirect speech'_ Japhug Rgyalrong, Lhasa Tibetan, and Classical Mongoli... Read More about A Typological Perspective on Classical Mongolian Indirect Speech.

Proto-Kuki-Chin initials according to Toru Ohno and Kenneth VanBik (2014)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2014). Proto-Kuki-Chin initials according to Toru Ohno and Kenneth VanBik. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 7, 11-30

Relying on the legacy of Ohno (1965), several scholars have made more recent forays into the reconstruction of Kuki-Chin initials (Khoi 2001, VanBik 2009, Button 2011). A comparison of Ohno’s and VanBik’s systems permits an overview of progress made... Read More about Proto-Kuki-Chin initials according to Toru Ohno and Kenneth VanBik.