28.5040, Calls: Old Chinese, Sino-Tibetan, Historical Linguistics/Germany

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-5040. Thu Nov 30 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.5040, Calls: Old Chinese, Sino-Tibetan, Historical Linguistics/Germany

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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 22:23:05
From: Yunfan Lai [lai at shh.mpg.de]
Subject: Old Chinese and Friends: Advances in the Reconstruction of Old Chinese Phonology

Full Title: Old Chinese and Friends: Advances in the Reconstruction of Old Chinese Phonology 

Date: 26-Apr-2018 - 27-Apr-2018
Location: Jena, Germany 
Contact Person: Johann-Mattis List
Meeting Email: list at shh.mpg.de
Web Site: http://calc.digling.org/events/ocaf.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Old (och)

Language Family(ies): Sino-Tibetan 

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2018 

Meeting Description:

The reconstruction of the phonology of Old Chinese has greatly advanced during
the last decades. As a result, reconstruction systems which were proposed
independently by different scholars, such as Baxter and Sagart (2014),
Starostin (1989), and Zhèngzhāng (2003) resemble each other much more than
earlier reconstructions (Wáng 1980, Li 1971, Karlgren 1957). With the
increased consensus among scholars, Old Chinese has also begun to resemble
Tibete-Burman languages much closer, which has lead to an increased research
and debate about the position of Chinese within the Sino-Tibetan (or
Trans-Himalayan) language family (Behr 1999, Jacques 2015).

The goal of the workshop is to bring together experts on Sino-Tibetan
linguistics, Ancient Chinese, Old Chinese reconstruction, and Chinese
paleography to discuss future directions of research on Old Chinese phonology
in the broader context of the genetic affiliation of Chinese as well as the
history of the writing system with a special focus on newly excavated
documents.

Confirmed Participants

Wolfgang Behr (University Zürich), Laurent Sagart (CRLAO, Paris), Guillaume
Jacques (CRLAO, Paris), George Starostin (RGGU, Moscow), Nathan W. Hill (SOAS,
London), William Baxter (University of Michigan), Yuying Ye (Xiamen
University), Guolong Lai (University of Florida)

数十年来，上古汉语音系的构拟取得了重大进展。因此，近期不同学者独立构拟的音系（如白一平-沙加尔2014、斯塔罗斯金1989以及郑张尚芳2003）比起王力（1
980）、李方桂（1971）以及高本汉（1957），互相之间更为相似。也正因为学者们共识的增加，如今的上古汉语与藏缅语言更加接近，同时也启发了人们对汉语在汉
藏语系（或跨喜马拉雅语系）中的地位（Behr 1999，Jacques 2015）。

本次工作坊旨在让汉藏语系、上古音、上古文献文字专家齐聚一堂，共同讨论上古音研究的未来方向，包括汉语的系属问题以及最新出土文献中所揭示的书写系统的历史研究。

已确定参会人员

Wolfgang Behr（毕鹗，苏黎世大学）、Laurent Sagart（沙加尔，法国科学研究中心东亚语言研究所）、Guillaume
Jacques（向柏霖，法国科学研究中心东亚语言研究所）、Nathan W. Hill（内藤丘，伦敦大学亚非学院）、William
Baxter（白一平，密歇根大学）

Call for Papers:

We invite interested scholars to submit abstracts on Old Chinese phonology,
Chinese paleography, or the position of Chinese within the Sino-Tibetan
language family. Abstract in form of PDF which does not disclose your
identity, not exceeding one page (not counting references and figures) should
be directly sent to both list at shh.mpg.de and lai at shh.mpg.de. Please state your
affiliation and contact information in the email body text. To make it easier
for us to sort emails with abstracts, we further ask you to add “[OCAF
submission]“ to the header of your email (including the brackets). Limited
funding for travel will be available, but we cannot promise to be able to
cover the funding of all participants. In case you need funding, we ask you to
indicate this in the email accompanying your abstract. The deadline for
sending abstracts is January 15.

我们欢迎有关上古汉语音系、汉语古文字学、汉语在汉藏语系中系属的论文摘要。摘要应为完全匿名、不超过一页（不包含参考文献和图片）的PDF文件，发送至list at s
hh.mpg.de并抄送lai at shh.mpg.de。请在邮件正文中写明作者的单位以及联系方式。为了方便我们为邮件归类，请作者在邮件标题的开头标注“[OCA
F
submission]”（包含方括号）。我们可以为与会者提供有限的旅行经费，但我们不能保证每一位与会者都能获得补助。如果您需要经费支持，请您在邮件正文中提及
。稿件截止日期是2018年1月15日。

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