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Guillaume Jacques (, born 1979) is a French
linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...
who specializes in the study of
Sino-Tibetan languages Sino-Tibetan (also referred to as Trans-Himalayan) is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. Around 1.4 billion people speak a Sino-Tibetan language. The vast majority of these are the 1.3 ...
:
Old Chinese Old Chinese, also called Archaic Chinese in older works, is the oldest attested stage of Chinese language, Chinese, and the ancestor of all modern varieties of Chinese. The earliest examples of Chinese are divinatory inscriptions on oracle bones ...
, Tangut, Tibetan, Gyalrongic and Kiranti languages. He also performs research on the Algonquian and Siouan language families and publishes about languages of other families such as Breton. His case studies in historical phonology are set in the framework of panchronic phonology, aiming to formulate generalizations about sound change that are independent of any particular language or language group. Jacques is one of the main contributors to the Pangloss Collection, an
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of endangered-language data. Guillaume Jacques was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal in 2015.


Biography

Guillaume Jacques studied linguistics at the
University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, ) is a public university, public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Established in 1632 by municipal authorities, it is the fourth-oldest academic institution in the Netherlan ...
and
Paris Diderot University Paris Diderot University, also known as Paris 7 (), was a French university located in Paris, France. It was one of the inheritors of the historic University of Paris, which was split into 13 universities in 1970. Paris Diderot merged with Pari ...
. He obtained his doctorate in 2004 with a dissertation on the phonology and morphology of the Japhug language (one of the Gyalrongic languages), which was based on fieldwork carried out in
Sichuan Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capital city is Cheng ...
, China in 2002–2003. He taught at Paris Descartes University for four years before taking up a permanent research position at th
Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l'Asie orientale (CRLAO)


Editorial activities

Guillaume Jacques is one of the Editors of the linguistics journal '' Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale''. He is a member of the editorial board of ''Diachronica'', ''Linguistics Vanguard'', and '' Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area''.


Works

* 2000. "The character ywij and the reconstruction of the Zhi and Wei rhymes"; ''Cahiers de Linguistique: Asie Orientale'' 29.2: 205–222. * 2003. "Jiarongyu, Zangyu ji Shanggu Hanyu de -s houzhui" (嘉绒语、藏语及上古汉语的-s后缀) he –s suffix in Rgyalrong, Archaic Chinese and Tibetan ''Minzu Yuwen'' (民族语文) 2003.1: 12–15. * 2003. "Un cas de dissimilation labiale en chinois archaïque : la racine 'couvrir, renverser' et son équivalent en tibétain"; ''Cahiers de Linguistique: Asie Orientale'' 32.1: 123–130. * 2004. "Chabaohua de chongdie xingshi" (茶堡话的重叠形式) eduplication in Japhug ''Minzu Yuwen'' (民族语文) 2004.4: 7–11. * 2007. ''Textes tangoutes I, Nouveau recueil sur l'amour parental et la piété filiale''. München: Lincom Europa. * 2007. "A shared suppletive pattern in the pronominal systems of Chang Naga and Southern Chang"; ''Cahiers de Linguistique: Asie Orientale'' 36.1:61–78. * 2008. ''Jiarongyu Yanjiu'' (嘉绒语研究) study on the rGyalrong language Beijing: Minzu chubanshe. * 2008. ''Xixiayu de mingcixing weiyu'' (西夏语的名词性谓语) n nominal predicates in Tangut ''Minzu Yuwen'' (民族语文) 2008.4: 37–39. * 2009. "The origin of vowel alternations in the Tangut verb", ''Language and Linguistics'' 10.1: 17–27. * 2010. "The inverse in Japhug Rgyalrong"; ''Language & Linguistics'' 11.1:127–157. * 2010. "Notes complémentaires sur les verbes à alternance ‘dr/'br en tibétain”, ''Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines'', no. 19, Octobre 2010, pp. 27–29. * 2011. “A Panchronic Study of Aspirated Fricatives, with New Evidence from Pumi.” ''Lingua'' 121 (9): 1518–38. * 2012. “Argument Demotion in Japhug Rgyalrong.” In ''Ergativity, Valency and Voice'', 199–225. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. * 2013. “Harmonization and Disharmonization of Affix Ordering and Basic Word Order.” ''Linguistic Typology'' 17.2: 187–217. * 2013. “Applicative and Tropative Derivations in Japhug Rgyalrong.” ''Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area'' 36.2: 1-13. * 2014. “Denominal Affixes as Sources of Antipassive Markers in Japhug Rgyalrong.” ''Lingua'' 138: 1–22. * 2015. "On the cluster *sr–in Sino-Tibetan", ''Journal of Chinese Linguistics'' 43.1: 215–223. * 2019.
Dated language phylogenies shed light on the ancestry of Sino-Tibetan
. by Sagart, Laurent and Jacques, Guillaume and Lai, Yunfan and Ryder, Robin and Thouzeau, Valentin and Greenhill, Simon J. and List, Johann-Mattis. ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America'' 21. 10317-10322. * 2021. ''A grammar of Japhug''. Berlin: Language Science Press. (digital), (hardcover).


References


External links


Jacques’ page
on Academia.edu
Jacques' research blog
"Panchronica"
Jacques' page
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