Nathan W. Hill

Nathan W. Hill is a historical linguist and Tibetologist specializing in languages of the Sino-Tibetan family, in particular Tibetic languages. He is Reader in Tibetan and Historical Linguistics at SOAS, East Asian Languages and Cultures, and served as Head of Department from 2017 to 2019.[1]

Nathan W. Hill
Nathan Hill at SOAS University of London in 2013
Born1979
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materHarvard University
Known forStudy of Sino-Tibetan languages and Historical linguistics
Scientific career
FieldsLinguistics
InstitutionsSOAS
Doctoral advisorLeonard van der Kuijp

He is particularly well-known for his work on comparative Sino-Tibetan, Old Tibetan philology, as well as linguistic typology (especially mirativity and evidentiality).

From 2014 to 2020 Hill was a principal investigator on Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State, a project funded by the European Research Council and hosted by the British Museum.[2][3] During the academic year 2015–2016 he was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley.[4]


Works
  • Hill, Nathan W. (2010a), "Overview of Old Tibetan synchronic phonology" (PDF), Transactions of the Philological Society, 108 (2): 110–125, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.694.8283, doi:10.1111/j.1467-968X.2010.01234.x, archived (PDF) from the original on 28 July 2013.
  • —— (2010b), "Personal pronouns in Old Tibetan" (PDF), Journal Asiatique, 298 (2): 549–571, doi:10.2143/JA.298.2.2062444, archived (PDF) from the original on 1 August 2013.
  • —— (2011), "The allative, locative, and terminative cases (la-don) in the Old Tibetan Annals", New Studies in the Old Tibetan Documents: Philology, History and Religion (PDF), Old Tibetan Documents Online Monograph Series, 3, Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, pp. 3–38.
  • —— (2012). "Tibetan -las, -nas, and -bas" (PDF). Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale. 41 (1): 3–38. doi:10.1163/1960602812X00014 (inactive 2020-01-22). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-09.
  • Hill, Nathan W. (2012). "'Mirativity' does not exist: ḥdug in 'Lhasa' Tibetan and other suspects". Linguistic Typology. 16 (3): 389–433. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.694.8358. doi:10.1515/lity-2012-0016.
  • Hill, Nathan W. (2012), "The six vowel hypothesis of Old Chinese in comparative context", Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics, 6 (2): 1–69, doi:10.1163/2405478x-90000100.
  • —— (2014), "Cognates of Old Chinese *-n, *-r, and *-j in Tibetan and Burmese", Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, 43 (2): 91–109, doi:10.1163/19606028-00432p02
  • Hill, Nathan W. (2015). "Hare lõ: the touchstone of mirativity". SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics. 13 (2): 24–31.
  • Gawne, Lauren; Hill, Nathan W., eds. (2017), Evidential Systems of Tibetan Languages, Studies and Monographs [TiLSM], 302, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton
  • Hill, Nathan W. (2019), The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9781107146488

References
  1. "Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures - SOAS University of London". www.soas.ac.uk.
  2. "Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State". British Museum. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  3. "About the Project". Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  4. "Nathan Hill: Buddhist Studies Program Visiting Professor". University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
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