Guillaume Jacques

Guillaume Jacques

Guillaume Jacques presenting a talk at SOAS, University of London, April 2013
Born 1979
Citizenship France
Fields Linguistics
Institutions Paris Descartes University, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Alma mater Paris Diderot University
Doctoral advisor Marie-Claude Paris
Other academic advisors Laurent Sagart
Known for Study of Rgyalrongic languages and Tangut language

Guillaume Jacques (Chinese: 向柏霖; pinyin: Xiàng Bólín, b. 1979[1]) is a French linguist of Breton descent who specializes in the study of Sino-Tibetan languages: Old Chinese, Tangut, Tibetan, Rgyalrongic and Kiranti languages. He also does research on the Algonquian and Siouan language families; he occasionally 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.

He is one of the main contributors to the Pangloss Collection, an open archive of endangered-language data.[2]

He was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal in 2015.[3]

Biography

Guillaume Jacques studied linguistics at the University of Amsterdam and Paris Diderot University obtaining his doctorate in 2004, with a dissertation on the phonology and morphology of the Japhug language (one of the Rgyalrongic languages), which was based on fieldwork carried out in Sichuan, China in 2002–2003. He taught at Paris Descartes University for four years before taking up a permanent research position at the Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l'Asie orientale (CRLAO).[4]

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.

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References

  1. Blench, Roger; Sagart, Laurent; Sanchez-Mazas, Alicia (2005). The Peopling of East Asia: Putting Together Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics. Routledge. p. xvii. ISBN 9781134353125.
  2. See Jacques' contributions to Pangloss; and the presentation of his Japhug recordings.
  3. List of laureates for the CNRS Bronze medal, 2016; see also CNRS press release, 8 Oct 2015.
  4. "Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale: Guillaume JACQUES". Retrieved 2010-05-09.
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