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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

Proposal for a transcription of Chinese characters in the study of early Chinese language and literature = 早期漢語言文學研究中的漢字釋讀方法新探 (2015)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2015). Proposal for a transcription of Chinese characters in the study of early Chinese language and literature = 早期漢語言文學研究中的漢字釋讀方法新探. Bulletin of Chinese linguistics, 8, 48-60. https://doi.org/10.1163/2405478X-00801003

This paper outlines the pitfalls of the current anachronistic practice of transcribing early Chinese documents by identifying each character with a kǎishū 楷書 equivalent. In its place, I suggest a way of transliterating characters directly, by rende... Read More about Proposal for a transcription of Chinese characters in the study of early Chinese language and literature = 早期漢語言文學研究中的漢字釋讀方法新探.

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.

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.

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

Trans-Himalayan Linguistics: Historical and Descriptive Linguistics of the Himalayan Area (2014)
Book
Owen-Smith, T., & Hill, N. W. (Eds.). (2014). Trans-Himalayan Linguistics: Historical and Descriptive Linguistics of the Himalayan Area. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110310832

The Himalaya and surrounding regions are amongst the world's most linguistically diverse places. Of an estimated 600 languages spoken here at Asia's heart, few are researched in depth and many virtually undocumented. Historical developments and relat... Read More about Trans-Himalayan Linguistics: Historical and Descriptive Linguistics of the Himalayan Area.

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 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

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.

Another look at right-detached NPs (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Simard, C. (2013, December). Another look at right-detached NPs. Presented at Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 4 Conference (LDLT4), London, United Kingdom

This paper proposes an analysis of right-detached NPs constructions in Jaminjung, a language of Northern Australia, in which right-detached NPs serve different discourse functions, either as reactivated topics or as afterthoughts, a distinction estab... Read More about Another look at right-detached NPs.

Aspects of Bangime Phonology, Morphology, and Morphosyntax (2013)
Thesis
Hantgan, A. Aspects of Bangime Phonology, Morphology, and Morphosyntax. (Thesis). Indiana University Bloomington

This dissertation provides a description of aspects of the phonology, morphology, and morphosyntax of Bangime. Bangime is a language isolate spoken in the Dogon language speaking area of Central Eastern Mali. Although the Bangande, the speakers of Ba... Read More about Aspects of Bangime Phonology, Morphology, and Morphosyntax.

Children documenting language and culture: Games and toys in Ikakumo (2013)
Exhibition / Performance
Gefter, A., & Salffner, S. (2013). Children documenting language and culture: Games and toys in Ikakumo. [print photographs (games and toys), print exhibtion catalogue (text, contextual photographs), videos (games, descriptions of games, consent sessions), audio (consent sessions, electronic photographs (consent session), toy bamboo cars]. 20 May 2013 - 2 August 2013. (Unpublished)

We have all played some form of football at some point in our lives, but what is your favourite game and what toys did you use to play with? Do you know the games ames, lago, ayo, ekpe, okuto, cashew, locker, abas, ludo, tyre, ring or whot? Have you... Read More about Children documenting language and culture: Games and toys in Ikakumo.

Nollywood and its Others: Questioning English Language Hegemony in Nollywood Studies (2013)
Journal Article
McCain, C. (2013). Nollywood and its Others: Questioning English Language Hegemony in Nollywood Studies. The global South, 7(1), 30-54. https://doi.org/10.2979/globalsouth.7.1.30

The current trend in Nollywood Studies is to focus on the way video films are being made and consumed around the world, a focus that parallels the name “Nollywood,” which, as Jonathan Haynes and Alessandro Jedlowski point out, references the film ind... Read More about Nollywood and its Others: Questioning English Language Hegemony in Nollywood Studies.

Chanter l'existence : La poésie de Sando Marteau et ses horizons philosophiques (2013)
Book
Rettová, A. (2013). Chanter l'existence : La poésie de Sando Marteau et ses horizons philosophiques. Zdeněk Susa

Sando Marteau is a musician, who lives and works in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo. He is one of the rare Congolese poets using the Swahili language to express his art. Full of melancholy, his songs evoke the suffering and difficulties of t... Read More about Chanter l'existence : La poésie de Sando Marteau et ses horizons philosophiques.