Some Tibetan verb forms that violate Dempsey’s law (2014)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2014). Some Tibetan verb forms that violate Dempsey’s law. Revue d'études tibétaines, 29, 91-101

According to Dempsey's law (*-eṅ > iṅ, *-eg > -ig) there should be no inherited Tibetan words that end in the rimes -eṅ and -eg. Although some words of this type exist, a number of these may be explained as analogical developments.

A Note on Voicing Alternation in the Tibetan Verbal System (2014)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2014). A Note on Voicing Alternation in the Tibetan Verbal System. Transactions of the Philological Society, 112(1), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-968X.12006

A recent paper on the prehistory of the Tibetan verbal system by Guillaume Jacques (2012), in keeping with many previous authorities, presents Tibetan verbs as occurring in pairs, with a voiced intransitive and a voice-alternating transitive member.... Read More about A Note on Voicing Alternation in the Tibetan Verbal System.

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

"Tang Our Contemporary: Twenty-First Century Adaptations of Peony Pavilion": Supplementary Materials (Video Excerpts and Photo Gallery) [Online] (2014)
Other
Ferrari, R. (2014). "Tang Our Contemporary: Twenty-First Century Adaptations of Peony Pavilion": Supplementary Materials (Video Excerpts and Photo Gallery) [Online]

These video excerpts and photographs complement the publication Ferrari, Rossella (2014) :'Tang Our Contemporary: Twenty-First Century Adaptations of Peony Pavilion.' In: Santangelo, Paolo and Tan, Tian Yuan, (eds.), Passion, Romance, and Qing: The W... Read More about "Tang Our Contemporary: Twenty-First Century Adaptations of Peony Pavilion": Supplementary Materials (Video Excerpts and Photo Gallery) [Online].

Medieval Christian Dualist Perceptions and Conceptions of Biblical Paradise (2013)
Journal Article
Stoyanov, Y. (2013). Medieval Christian Dualist Perceptions and Conceptions of Biblical Paradise. Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe, 3, 149-166. https://doi.org/10.18778/2084-140X.03.11

The article intends to draw attention to some of the most significant and telling appropriations of traditional themes of Biblical paradise in medieval Christian dualism (namely, Paulicianism, Bogomilism and related groups in Eastern Christendom and... Read More about Medieval Christian Dualist Perceptions and Conceptions of Biblical Paradise.

Haiku: Love (2013)
Book
Cummings, A. (2013). Haiku: Love. British Museum Press

Typological universals of relative clauses with reference to Korea as a foreign language (2013)
Thesis
Ju, Y.-K. Typological universals of relative clauses with reference to Korea as a foreign language. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis examines the applicability of typological universals of relative clauses, such as the Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy (NPAH; Keenan and Comrie, 1977), to Korean as a foreign language. The NPAH is an implicational hierarchy explaining... Read More about Typological universals of relative clauses with reference to Korea as a foreign language.

Question of the Existence of Dualist Layers in Alevi/Bektāşī Syncretism and their Central Asian, Anatolian or Balkan Provenance (2013)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2013). Question of the Existence of Dualist Layers in Alevi/Bektāşī Syncretism and their Central Asian, Anatolian or Balkan Provenance. In A. H. Pries, L. Martzolff, C. Ambos, & R. Langer (Eds.), Rituale als Ausdruck von Kulturkontakt: ‚Synkretismus‘ zwischen Negation und Neudefinition (131-151). Harrassowitz

ḥdug as a testimonial marker in Classical and Old Tibetan (2013)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2013). ḥdug as a testimonial marker in Classical and Old Tibetan. Himalayan linguistics, 12(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.5070/H912123714

DeLancey (1992) and Hongladarom (1994) suppose that
ḥdug means 'sit' in Old and Classical Tibetan, and that these languages entirely lack the evidential use of this morpheme well known in 'Lhasa' Tibetan. In contrast, Denwood (1999) sees the Classic... Read More about ḥdug as a testimonial marker in Classical and Old Tibetan.

A new interpretation of the mythological incipit of the Rkong po inscription (2013)
Book Chapter
Hill, N. W. (2013). A new interpretation of the mythological incipit of the Rkong po inscription. In K. Tropper, & C. Scherrer-Schaub (Eds.), Tibetan Inscriptions (171-182). Brill

Three notes on Laufer's law (2013)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2013). Three notes on Laufer's law. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman area, 36(1), 57-72

Facets of both Old Tibetan and Old Burmese phonology pose problems for the generalisation, known as Laufer‘s law, that -wa- in in Written Burmese corresponds to -o- in Written Tibetan. Some Tibetan words retain the sequence -wa, appearing to contradi... Read More about Three notes on Laufer's law.

The merger of Proto-Burmish *ts and *č in Burmese (2013)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2013). The merger of Proto-Burmish *ts and *č in Burmese. SOAS working papers in linguistics, 16, 334-345

Although Old Burmese is the earliest attested Burmish language, more recently attested kindred languages preserve archaic features which Old Burmese has lost. This paper examines one such Burmese innovation, the merger of *ts and *č.

A novelty effect in phonetic drift of the native language (2013)
Journal Article
Chang, C. B. (2013). A novelty effect in phonetic drift of the native language. Journal of Phonetics, 41(6), 520-533. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2013.09.006

Previous findings on adult second-language (L2) learners showed systematic phonetic changes in their production of the native language (L1) starting in the first weeks of L2 learning [Chang, C. B. (2012). Rapid and multifaceted effects of second-lang... Read More about A novelty effect in phonetic drift of the native language.

The production and perception of coronal fricatives in Seoul Korean: The case for a fourth laryngeal category (2013)
Journal Article
Chang, C. B. (2013). The production and perception of coronal fricatives in Seoul Korean: The case for a fourth laryngeal category. Korean Linguistics, 15(1), 7-49. https://doi.org/10.1075/kl.15.1.02cha

This article presents new data on the contrast between the two voiceless coronal fricatives of Korean, variously described as a lenis/fortis or aspirated/fortis contrast. In utterance-initial position, the fricatives were found to differ in centroid... Read More about The production and perception of coronal fricatives in Seoul Korean: The case for a fourth laryngeal category.

Journal of the International Association for Bon Research (Inaugural Issue) (2013)
Other
(2013). Journal of the International Association for Bon Research (Inaugural Issue). Montreal, Quebec

Disambiguating Tibetan verb stems with matrix verbs in the indirect infinitive construction (2013)
Journal Article
Garrett, E., Hill, N. W., & Zadoks, A. (2013). Disambiguating Tibetan verb stems with matrix verbs in the indirect infinitive construction. Bulletin of Tibetology, 49(2), 35-44

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

The Emergence of the Pluralis majestatis and the Relative Chronology of Old Tibetan Texts (2013)
Book Chapter
Hill, N. W. (2013). The Emergence of the Pluralis majestatis and the Relative Chronology of Old Tibetan Texts. In F.-K. Ehrhard, & P. Maurer (Eds.), Nepalica-Tibetica: Festgabe for Christoph Cüppers (249-262). International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies GmbH

Old Chinese *sm- and the Old Tibetan Word for ‘Fire’ (2013)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2013). Old Chinese *sm- and the Old Tibetan Word for ‘Fire’. Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, 42(1), 60-71. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-0421P0004

Several sinologists have compared Chinese xjwɨjX 'burn' or xwaX 'fire' to an Old Tibetan word smye 'fire'. No such Old Tibetan word exists. Instead, mye is the Old Tibetan word for fire and smye, also spelled dmeḥ, means 'stain, impurity, sin'. Tibet... Read More about Old Chinese *sm- and the Old Tibetan Word for ‘Fire’.

Contextual semantics of ‘Lhasa’ Tibetan evidentials (2013)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2013). Contextual semantics of ‘Lhasa’ Tibetan evidentials. SKASE Journal of theoretical linguistics, 10(3), 47-54

DeLancey (2012) eloquently makes the point that the generativist notion of
'grammaticality' is a misleading metaphor by which to understand human language. Despite this, DeLancey himself claims that a number of constructions in 'Lhasa' Tibetan canno... Read More about Contextual semantics of ‘Lhasa’ Tibetan evidentials.