Nathan W. Hill

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

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.^[3][4] During the academic year 2015–2016 he was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley,^[5] and in 2020–2021 at Oxford's Oriental Institute.^[6]

• 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, vol. 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. 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. S2CID 55007142.
• 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, S2CID 170371949
• 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], vol. 302, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton
• Hill, Nathan W. (2019), The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9781107146488

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• SOAS web page
• Academia.edu profile
• Google Scholar citations
• 'Why Does Tibetan Stack its Letters' (YouTube)
• 'Sino-Tibetan Languages Introduction and Historical Perspective' (YouTube)
• 'Current research themes in Sino-Tibetan comparative linguistics' (YouTube)
• 'Methods in Sino-Tibetan linguistics' (YouTube)