Study day organized by Mathieu Beaudouin, Researcher affiliated to the Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l'Asie orientale (CRLAO, CNRS-EHESS-Inalco), with the support of the Paris IAS

Onsite and online event, open to the public with registration at this address.
Conferences in French and in English.

Presentation

Tangut, the language of the rulers of the Western Xia Empire (1038-1227), is currently benefiting from a convergence of historical advances in linguistics, philology and manuscripts, enabling us to refine our understanding of it, and incidentally that of its sister and neighboring languages. The Paris IAS provides the framework for bringing together some of the people at the forefront of these advances for a day-long exchange open to the public. The event is divided into three parts: the first takes a diachronic viewpoint, exploring some of the reconstructible developments within the stages separating Tangut from its sister languages (Horpa and Gyalronguique); the second places Qiangic in a more geographical and typological perspective, discussing phenomena common to all the languages of the Sichuanese corridor, including Tangut; the third places Tangut in its immediate linguistic and cultural context, Central Asia and North-West China, via linguistic case studies.

Partners

- Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Inalco)
- Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l’Asie orientale (CRLAO, CNRS-EHESS-Inalco)