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Interdisciplinary Research Centre
 

Read more at: Dr Ergin Opengin

Dr Ergin Opengin

Historical linguistics

language contact


Read more at: Dr. Lucy (Xia) Zhao

Dr. Lucy (Xia) Zhao

Language acquisition

Journal articles

2023 (Accepted for publication)

  • Zhao, X. and Xiliang, C., 2023 (Accepted for publication). The ba-construction in learner Chinese: a corpus analysis汉语“把”字句的中介语分析 Yuyan Kexue - Linguistic Sciences,
  • 2022 (Accepted for publication)

  • Zhao, X., Slabakova, R., Baker, L., Turner, J. and Tuniyan, E., 2022 (Accepted for publication). Null and Overt Pronoun Interpretation in L2 Mandarin Resultative Constructions Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism,
  • Zhao, X. and Cui, X., 2022 (Accepted for publication). 汉语把字句的事件结构分析 An event analysis of the ba-construction 语言教学与研究 Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies,
  • 2022

  • Mai, Z., Zhao, L. and Yip, V., 2022. The Mandarin <i>ba</i>-construction in school-age heritage speakers and their parental input Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, v. 12
    Doi: 10.1075/lab.18025.mai

  • Read more at: Hsiaoching Wang

    Hsiaoching Wang

    Theoretical/Experimental Linguistics; Chinese Syntax; Second Language Acquisition


    Read more at: Fei Yuan

    Fei Yuan

    Evolution of language; Syntax


    Read more at: Dr Paul M. Noorlander

    Dr Paul M. Noorlander

    Linguistic typology & documentation; Areal & historical Linguistics; West Asia; Semitic languages; Indo-Iranian languages

    Journal articles

    2023

  • Noorlander, PM., 2023. The Neo-Aramaic Dialect Spoken by the Christians of Marga (Sirnak, Southeastern Turkey) Journal of Semitic Studies, v. 68
    Doi: 10.1093/jss/fgac025
  • 2022

  • Noorlander, PM., 2022. The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Midyat (Midyoyo), vol 1, Texts JOURNAL OF SEMITIC STUDIES, v. 67
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgac015
  • 2021

  • Noorlander, PM., 2021. Ergativity and Other Alignment Types in Neo-Aramaic: Investigating Morphosyntactic Microvariation Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, v. 103
  • Noorlander, PM., 2021. Source constructions as a key to alignment change: The case of Aramaic Journal of Historical Linguistics, v. 11
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.19046.noo
  • 2016

  • Noorlander, P., 2016. The Problem of Classifying Ugaritic KUSATU - Kleine Untersuchungen zur Sprache des Alten Testaments und seiner Umwelt, v. 20
  • 2014 (Published online)

  • Noorlander, PM., 2014 (Published online). Diversity in convergence: Kurdish and Aramaic variation entangled Kurdish Studies, v. 1
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.33182/ks.v2i2.401
  • 2012

  • Noorlander, P., 2012. Sam'alian in its Northwest Semitic Setting: A Historical-Comparative Approach Orientalia 81: 202 - 238,
  • Book chapters

    2022

  • Noorlander, PM. and Molin, D., 2022. 1. Introduction to a Comparative Corpus of Oral Literature
    Doi: 10.11647/obp.0306.01
  • Noorlander, PM., 2022. 33. Mirza Muhammad and the Three Princesses
    Doi: 10.11647/obp.0307.30
  • Khan, G., Mohammadirad, M., Molin, D. and Noorlander, PM., 2022. Preface
    Doi: 10.11647/obp.0306.17
  • Noorlander, PM., 2022. 32. Mirza Muhammad and the Forty Monsters
    Doi: 10.11647/obp.0307.29
  • Noorlander, PM. and Mohammadirad, M., 2022. 3. Narrative Style and Discourse in Kurdish and Neo-Aramaic Oral Literature
    Doi: 10.11647/obp.0306.03
  • Noorlander, PM., 2022. Christian Aramaic Of Harmashe Text 33: §1–44
    Doi: 10.11647/obp.0306.11
  • 2020

  • Noorlander, PM., 2020. Towards a Typology of Possessors and Experiencers in Neo-Aramaic
    Doi: 10.11647/obp.0209.02
  • 2015

  • Noorlander, P. and Stilo, D., 2015. On the Convergence of Verbal Systems of Aramaic and its Neighbors. Part II: Past Paradigms Derived from Present Equivalents
  • Books

    2022

  • Khan, G., Mohammadirad, M., Molin, D. and Noorlander, PM., 2022. Neo-Aramaic and Kurdish Folklore from Northern Iraq
    Doi: 10.11647/obp.0306
  • Khan, G., Mohammadirad, M., Molin, D. and Noorlander, PM., 2022. Neo-Aramaic and Kurdish Folklore from Northern Iraq
    Doi: 10.11647/obp.0307
  • 2020

  • 2020. Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic
    Doi: 10.11647/obp.0209

  • Read more at: Dr Saussan Khalil

    Dr Saussan Khalil

    Arabic language, linguistics, sociolinguistics, computational linguistics, lexicography, teaching, second language acquisition, natural language processing, community languages


    Read more at: Dr Mahbod Ghaffari

    Dr Mahbod Ghaffari

    Persian language, literature and culture; Iranian studies; Middle Eastern studies; linguistics

    Books

    2018

  • Ghaffari, M., Mahmmodi Bakhtiari, B. and Shahhoseini, F., 2018. Persian for Dummies

  • Read more at: Professor Roel Sterckx FBA

    Professor Roel Sterckx FBA

    Classical and literary Chinese;
    classical Chinese philology

    Book chapters

    2023 (No publication date)

  • Sterckx, R., 2023 (No publication date). “To Rule ‘All under Heaven’”
  • 2023

  • Sterckx, R., 2023. “Gazing back to see China’s future”
  • 2019

  • Sterckx, R., 2019. Agronomy and Philosophy in Early China
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.20881
  • 2018

  • Sterckx, R., 2018. Ritual, Mimesis, and the Animal World in Early China
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/9781316534663
  • Sterckx, R., 2018. The Limits of Illustration: Animalia and Pharmacopeia from Guo Pu to Bencao Gangmu 本草綱目
    Doi: 10.1163/9789004366183_009
  • Sterckx, R., 2018. Animal to Edible
    Doi: 10.1017/9781108551571.004
  • Sterckx, R., 2018. Animals through Chinese History: Earliest times to 1911
  • Sterckx, R., 2018. Food and agriculture
  • Sterckx, R., 2018. Food and agriculture
  • 2017

  • Sterckx, R., 2017. Ritual, mimesis and the animal world in early China
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/9781316534663.012
  • 2015

  • Sterckx, R., 2015. Ideologies of the Peasant and Merchant in Warring States China
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1163/9789004299337_009
  • 2013

  • Sterckx, R., 2013. Mozi 31 : explaining ghosts, again
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1163/9789004246201_005
  • 2012

  • Sterckx, R., 2012. Animals, gaming and entertainment in traditional China
  • Sterckx, R., 2012. Feeding in the Afterlife
  • 2010

  • Sterckx, R., 2010. Religious Practices in Qin and Han.
  • 2009

  • Sterckx, R., 2009. Alimentar a los antepasados : Comida, ritual y autoridad en la China antigua
  • Sterckx, R., 2009. Ancêtres, offrandes et esprits : la culture du sacrifice dans la Chine ancienne
  • Sterckx, R., 2009. A Symbolic Bestiary
  • 2008

  • Sterckx, R., 2008. The economics of religion in Warring States and early imperial China
  • 2007

  • Duncan, JS., Johnson, NC. and Schein, RH., 2007. Introduction
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/9780470996515.ch1
  • Sterckx, R., 2007. Chatu de juxian: Cong Guo Pu dao Li Shizhen de dongwu chatu (插图的局限:从郭璞到李时珍的動物插圖)
  • 2006

  • Sterckx, R., 2006. Of a tawny bull we make offering?: Animals in Early Chinese Religion
  • Sterckx, R., 2006. The Bestiary of Han
  • 2005

  • Sterckx, R., 2005. Food and Philosophy in Early China
  • Sterckx, R., 2005. Food and Philosophy in Early China
  • 2004

  • Sterckx, R., 2004. Musique et animaux dans la Chine ancienne
  • 2003

  • Sterckx, R., 2003. Le pouvoir des sens : Sagesse et perception sensorielle en Chine ancienne
  • Sterckx, R., 2003. Attitudes towards wildlife and the hunt in pre-Buddhist China
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.4324/9780203641811
  • Theses / dissertations

    2022 (No publication date)

  • Dong, Q., 2022 (No publication date). Embryo, Body and Generation: A Comparative Study of Embryological Thought in Ancient Greece and Early China
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.83928
  • Internet publications

    2022 (No publication date)

  • Sterckx, R., 2022 (No publication date). China's neverending pigstory
  • 2021

  • Sterckx, R., 2021. The strong armed philosophy of the Chinese state isn’t new
  • 2019

  • Sterckx, R., 2019. The Use and Abuse of Nature. Ancient Chinese views of the balance between the human and natural worlds.
  • Journal articles

    2022 (Accepted for publication)

  • Sterckx, R., 2022 (Accepted for publication). "Excreted and left untreated? Human and animal waste: from Dunhuang to Laozi." East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine,
  • 2020

  • Sterckx, R., 2020. Agrarian and Mercantile Ideologies in Western Han Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, v. 63
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1163/15685209-12341520
  • 2017

  • Sterckx, R., 2017. Chang'an 26 BCE. An Augustan Age in China. BULLETIN OF THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES-UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, v. 80
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X17000350
  • 2016

  • Sterckx, R., 2016. Ritual, mimesis, and the Nonhuman Animal World in Early China Society and Animals,
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1163/15685306-12341404
  • Sterckx, R., 2016. Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY, v. 53
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2015.08.010
  • 2015

  • Sterckx, R., 2015. Mozi. A Study and Translation of the Ethical and Political Writings BULLETIN OF THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES-UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, v. 78
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X15000099
  • Sterckx, R., 2015. Alcohol and Historiography in Early China Global Food History, v. 1
    Doi: 10.1080/20549547.2015.11435410
  • 2013

  • China, HXYJZLJFWZX. and bu, HXYJTXBJ., 2013. Zhi shen Shennong de tianyuan (置身神農的田園) Hanxue yanjiu tongxun (漢學研究通訊)= Newsletter for research in Chinese studies, v. 32
  • 2012

  • Sterckx, R., 2012. Zoomorphism and Sacrificial Religion in Early China = 古代中國的動物形象與祭祀 Han xue yan jiu(漢學研究), v. 30
  • Sterckx, R., 2012. Zoomorphism and sacrificial religion in Early China = 古代中國的動物形象與祭祀 漢學研究 = Hanxue yanjiu, v. 30
  • 2008

  • Sterckx, R., 2008. The Limits of Illustration: Animalia and Pharmacopeia from Guo Pu to Bencao Gangmu Asian Medicine, v. 4
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1163/157342009X12526658783619
  • 2007

  • Sterckx, R., 2007. Searching for Spirit : Shen and Sacrifice in Warring States and Han Philosophy and Ritual Extrême orient Extrême occident, v. 29
    Doi: 10.3406/oroc.2007.1083
  • 2006

  • Sterckx, R., 2006. The pristine Dao: Metaphysics in early Daoist discourse. B SCH ORIENT AFR ST, v. 69
  • Sterckx, R., 2006. Material virtue: Ethics and the body in early China. J ASIAN STUD, v. 65
  • Sterckx, R., 2006. Sages, cooks, and flavours in warring states and han china International Journal of Phytoremediation, v. 21
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1179/mon.2006.54.1.001
  • 2005

  • Sterckx, R., 2005. Animal Classification in Ancient China East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, v. 23
  • 2004

  • Sterckx, R., 2004. A Chinese bestiary: Strange creatures from the guideways through mountains and seas. J ASIAN STUD, v. 63
  • 2003

  • Sterckx, R., 2003. The Grand Scribe's records, vol 2, The basic annals of Han China by Ssu-ma Chien TOUNG PAO, v. 89
  • Sterckx, R., 2003. Ancient China and its enemies: The rise of nomadic power in East Asian history HARVARD J ASIAT STUD, v. 63
  • 2002

  • Sterckx, R., 2002. The culture of sex in ancient China. J ASIAN STUD, v. 61
  • 2000

  • Sterckx, R., 2000. Transforming the beasts: Animal and music in early China TOUNG PAO, v. 86
  • 1999

  • Sterckx, R., 1999. Before Confucius: studies in the creation of the Chinese classics B SCH ORIENT AFR ST, v. 62
  • 1998

  • Sterckx, R., 1998. Debating the strange: animal anomalies in early China Working papers in Chinese Studies (Department of Chinese Studies,NUS), v. 1
  • 1996

  • Sterckx, R., 1996. Transcending habitats: authority, teritory and the animal realm in Warring States and early Imperial China BBACS : bulletin of the British Association for Chinese Studies.,
  • Sterckx, R., 1996. An Ancient Chinese Horse Ritual Early China, v. 21
    Doi: 10.1017/s0362502800003400
  • Books

    2022

  • Sterckx, R., 2022. 中国思想 从孔夫子到庖丁
  • 2021

  • Sterckx, R., 2021. Chinees denken. Over geschiedenis, filosofie en samenleving.
  • 2019

  • Sterckx, R., 2019. Chinese Thought From Confucius to Cook Ding
  • Sterckx, R., 2019. Ways of Heaven An Introduction to Chinese Thought
  • 2018

  • Schafer, D., Siebert, M. and Sterckx, R., 2018. Animals Through Chinese History Earliest Times to 1911
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/9781108551571
  • 2015

  • Sterckx, R., 2015. Gudai Zhongguo de dongwu yu lingy i(古代中国的动物与灵异)
  • 2012

  • Sterckx, R., 2012. Energia vitale: Il cosmo nel pensiero cinese antico
  • Sterckx, R. and Luca, D., 2012. Asian studies in the humanities : visions for the future
  • 2011

  • Sterckx, R., 2011. Food, Sacrifice, and Sagehood in Early China
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511736247
  • 2008

  • Sterckx, R., 2008. In the fields of Shennong
  • 2007

  • Graziani, R. and Sterckx, R., 2007. De l’esprit aux esprits: enquête sur la notion de shen = Of self and spirits : exploring shen in China
  • 2006

  • Wang, MC., Lai, G., Sterckx, R., Wang, EY. and Museum, ISG., 2006. A bronze menagerie: mat weights of early China
  • 2005

  • Sterckx, R., 2005. Of tripod and palate
  • Sterckx, R., 2005. Of tripod and palate: Food, politics, and religion in traditional China
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1057/9781403979278
  • 2002

  • Sterckx, R., 2002. The animal and the daemon in early China
  • Стеркс, Р., Китайская мысль: от Конфуция до повара Дина
  • Conference proceedings

    2008

  • Anonymous, , 2008. Introduction UNIFIED APPROACH TO BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS, v. 78

  • Read more at: Dr Vincenzo Vergiani

    Dr Vincenzo Vergiani

    Sanskrit;
    Classical Tamil;
    the history of linguistic ideas and the philosophy of language in ancient India

    Book chapters

    2021 (Accepted for publication)

  • Vergiani, V., 2021 (Accepted for publication). Some of Bhartṛhari’s Insights on Complex Utterances.
  • 2020 (Accepted for publication)

  • Vergiani, V., 2020 (Accepted for publication). Scribbling in Newar on the Margins of a Sanskrit Manuscript (Add.2832, University Library, Cambridge).
  • 2017

  • Vergiani, V., 2017. A tentative history of the Sanskrit grammatical traditions in Nepal through the manuscript collections
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1515/9783110543100-004
  • Vergiani, V., 2017. Bhartṛhari on Language, Perception and Consciousness
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199314621.013.50
  • 2016

  • Vergiani, V., 2016. Helārāja on omniscience, āgama and the origin of language
  • 2013

  • Vergiani, V., 2013. The adoption of Bhartṛhari’s classification of the grammatical object in Cēn̲āvaraiyar’s commentary on the Tolkāppiyam
  • 2012

  • Vergiani, V., 2012. Bhartṛhari’s views on the role of liminal perception in individual self-awareness
  • 2011

  • Vergiani, V., 2011. Dealing with conflicting views within the Pāṇinian tradition: On the derivation of tyādṛś etc
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.7135/UPO9781843313977.017
  • Vergiani, V., Bhate, S. and Haag, P., 2011. Critical Edition
  • Vergiani, V., Bhate, S. and Haag, P., 2011. Description of Manuscripts
  • Vergiani, V. and Haag, P., 2011. Translation: The Section on Abbreviations
  • Vergiani, V., 2011. A Quotation of the ‘Mahabhasyadipika’ of Bhartrhari in the ‘Pratyahara’ Section of the ‘Kasikavrtti
  • Vergiani, V., 2011. Methodology and Results
  • Vergiani, V., 2011. The Relationships between the Manuscripts
  • 2009

  • Vergiani, V., 2009. Bhartṛhari on sesa relationships
  • 2008

  • Vergiani, V. and Sferra, F., 2008. Due manoscritti sanscriti preservati nella Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
  • Vergiani, V., 2008. Helaraja’s defence of the padavadhika method of grammatical explanation
  • Vergiani, V., 2008. The Treatment of the Present Tense in the Kasmirasabdamrta of Isvara Kaul, a Paninian grammar of the Kashmiri language.
  • 2004

  • Vergiani, V., 2004. Spazio fisico, categorie concettuali e realtà ultima nel pensiero di Bhartṛhari
  • 2002

  • Vergiani, V., 2002. La speculazione linguistica indiana: della grammatica alla filosofia del linguaggio
  • Journal articles

    2020

  • Vergiani, V., 2020. Pāṇini’s Aṣṭādhyāyī: A Turning Point in Indian Intellectual History Rivista degli Studi Orientali, v. XCII
  • 2015

  • Vergiani, V., 2015. Āgamārthānusāribhiḥ. Helārāja’s Use of Quotations and Other Referential Devices in His Commentary on the Vākyapadīya Journal of Indian Philosophy, v. 43
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s10781-014-9237-4
  • Vergiani, V., 2015. The concept of prayoktṛdharma in the Vākyapadīya and some later works. The expression of feelings through words: : a linguistic and philosophical outlook. Bulletin d’Etudes Indiennes, v. 32
  • 2003

  • Vergiani, V., 2003. TWO PARALLEL PASSAGES IN THE MAHĀBHĀṢYAṬĪKĀ AND THE VĀKYAPADĪYA OF BHARTṚHARI Rivista degli studi orientali, v. 77
  • 1993

  • Vergiani, V. and Vergiani, E., 1993. THE NEGATIVE ASAMARTHASAMĀSAS IN THE PĀṆINIAN TRADITION Rivista degli studi orientali, v. 67
  • Books

    2017

  • Vergiani, V., Cuneo, D. and Formigatti, CA., 2017. Indic Manuscript Cultures through the Ages: Material, Textual, and Historical Investigations
  • 2014

  • Jones, MK., 2014. Preface
  • 2013

  • Vergiani, V., 2013. The Sādhanasamuddeśa in the Vākyapadīya of Bhartṛhari, with the Prakīrṇaprakāśa of Helārāja. An Annotated Translation and Study.
  • 2012

  • Vergiani, V. and Cox, W., 2012. Bilingual discourse and cross-cultural fertilisation: Sanskrit and Tamil in medieval India
  • 2009

  • Vergiani, V. and Haag, P., 2009. Studies in the Kāśikāvṛtti. : the section on pratyāhāras. Critical edition, translation and other contributions

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