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Nathan W. Hill

{{short description|American linguist and Tibetologist}}

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Nathan Wayne Hill (born July 8, 1979) is an American historical linguist and Tibetologist specializing in languages of the Sino-Tibetan family, in particular Tibetic languages.

He is Sam Lam Professor in Chinese Studies and director of the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies at Trinity College Dublin.{{cite web | url=https://www.tcd.ie/Asian/people/profiles/index.php | title=Professor Nathan Hill - Director of the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies - Trinity Centre for Asian Studies - Trinity College Dublin }}

He was previously reader in Tibetan and historical linguistics at SOAS, East Asian Languages and Cultures, and served as head of department from 2017 to 2019.{{cite web|url=https://www.soas.ac.uk/east-asia/|title=Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures - SOAS University of London|website=www.soas.ac.uk}}

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.{{Cite web | title=Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State | url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/research_projects/all_current_projects/beyond_boundaries.aspx | publisher=British Museum | accessdate=16 June 2015 }}{{Cite web | title=About the Project | url=https://asiabeyondboundaries.org/about/ | accessdate=16 June 2016 | archive-date=29 January 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160129032858/http://asiabeyondboundaries.org/about/ | url-status=dead }} During the academic year 2015–2016 he was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley,{{Cite web | title=Nathan Hill: Buddhist Studies Program Visiting Professor | url=http://ealc.berkeley.edu/people/hill-nathan | publisher=University of California, Berkeley | accessdate=21 April 2019 }} and in 2020–2021 at Oxford's Oriental Institute.{{Cite web | title= Nathan W. Hill | url=https://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/people/nathan-w-hill | publisher=University of Oxford | accessdate=9 October 2020}}

Works

  • {{citation | first = Nathan W. | last = Hill |authorlink= Nathan W. Hill | title = Overview of Old Tibetan synchronic phonology | journal = Transactions of the Philological Society | volume = 108 | issue = 2 | year = 2010a | pages = 110–125 | doi = 10.1111/j.1467-968X.2010.01234.x | url = http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/8964/1/Hill_2010_overview_of_Old_Tibetan_phonology.pdf | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20130728192422/http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/8964/1/Hill_2010_overview_of_Old_Tibetan_phonology.pdf | archivedate = 28 July 2013 | url-status = live | postscript = . | citeseerx = 10.1.1.694.8283 }}
  • {{citation | first = Nathan W. | last = Hill | author-mask = 2 |authorlink= Nathan W. Hill | title = Personal pronouns in Old Tibetan | journal = Journal Asiatique | volume = 298 | issue = 2 | year = 2010b | pages = 549–571 | doi = 10.2143/JA.298.2.2062444 | url = http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/11618/1/Hill_2010_personal_pronouns.pdf | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20130801033716/http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/11618/1/Hill_2010_personal_pronouns.pdf | archivedate = 1 August 2013 | url-status = live | postscript = . }}
  • {{citation | first = Nathan W. | last = Hill | author-mask = 2 |authorlink= Nathan W. Hill | contribution = The allative, locative, and terminative cases (la-don) in the Old Tibetan Annals | title = New Studies in the Old Tibetan Documents: Philology, History and Religion | location = Tokyo | publisher = Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies | series = Old Tibetan Documents Online Monograph Series | volume = 3 | year = 2011 | pages = 3–38 | url = http://repository.tufs.ac.jp/bitstream/10108/70589/1/Old+Tibatan3-01.pdf | postscript = . }}
  • {{cite journal | first = Nathan W. | last = Hill | author-mask = 2 | authorlink = Nathan W. Hill | title = Tibetan -las, -nas, and -bas | journal = Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale | volume = 41 | issue = 1 | year = 2012 | pages = 3–38 | url = http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/14122/1/Hill_2012_las_nas_bas.pdf | doi = 10.1163/1960602812X00014 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150909204400/http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/14122/1/Hill_2012_las_nas_bas.pdf | archivedate = 2015-09-09 | url-status = dead }}
  • {{cite journal | last = Hill | first = Nathan W. |authorlink= Nathan W. Hill | year = 2012 | title = 'Mirativity' does not exist: ḥdug in 'Lhasa' Tibetan and other suspects | journal = Linguistic Typology | volume = 16 | issue = 3 | pages = 389–433 | doi = 10.1515/lity-2012-0016 | url = http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/14858 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.694.8358 | s2cid = 55007142 }}
  • {{citation

| title = The six vowel hypothesis of Old Chinese in comparative context

| first = Nathan W. | last = Hill | authorlink = Nathan W. Hill

| journal = Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics | volume = 6 | number = 2 | year = 2012

| pages = 1–69

| url = http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/15863/

| postscript = . | doi=10.1163/2405478x-90000100

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  • {{citation

| title= Cognates of Old Chinese *-n, *-r, and *-j in Tibetan and Burmese

| first = Nathan W. | last = Hill | author-mask = 2 | authorlink = Nathan W. Hill

| journal = Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale | volume = 43 | number = 2 | year = 2014

| pages = 91–109

| url= http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/19139/

| doi=10.1163/19606028-00432p02

| s2cid = 170371949 }}

  • {{cite journal | last = Hill | first = Nathan W. |authorlink= Nathan W. Hill | year = 2015 | title = Hare lõ: the touchstone of mirativity. | journal = SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics | volume = 13 | issue = 2 | pages = 24–31 | url = http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/20142/ }}
  • {{citation | editor-last = Gawne

| editor-first = Lauren

| editor2-last = Hill

| editor2-first = Nathan W.

| title = Evidential Systems of Tibetan Languages | location = Berlin | publisher = De Gruyter Mouton | series = Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] | volume = 302 | year = 2017 }}

  • {{citation | author-last = Hill

| author-first = Nathan W.

| title = The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese | location = Cambridge | publisher = Cambridge University Press | year = 2019 | isbn = 9781107146488}}

References

External links

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  • [https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff46254.php SOAS web page]
  • [https://soas.academia.edu/NathanWHill Academia.edu profile]
  • [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KgkCO4wAAAAJ&hl Google Scholar citations]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0VLbpOOwrY 'Why Does Tibetan Stack its Letters' (YouTube)]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP0_m_XX33k 'Sino-Tibetan Languages Introduction and Historical Perspective' (YouTube)]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FgDGjbCcY4 'Current research themes in Sino-Tibetan comparative linguistics' (YouTube)]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNvFGkxkUUo 'Methods in Sino-Tibetan linguistics' (YouTube)]

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