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.

Program

9.30am - 9.55am: Welcome coffee
10am - 10.15am: Tangut and Qiangic in situ
Introduction talk by Mathieu Beaudouin

Session I - Tangut/Horpa in Qiangic
10.20am - 10.30am: Introduction to the session
Chair: Guillaume Jacques, CNRS-CRLAO & EPHE-PSL
10.30am - 11am: A study of cognates between Minyag and Tangut
By Rtamgrin Lhamo, EPHE-PSL
11am - 11.30am: Laterals in Horpa and their implications for the Tangut lateral system
By Liu Zhenyang, INALCO-CRLAO
11.30am - 12pm: A comparative perspective on Tangut R-syllables
By Mathieu Beaudouin, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies & Sami Honkasalo, University of Helsinki
12pm - 12.25pm: Shared innovations and Horpa subclassification
By Sami Honkasalo, University of Helsinki & Liu Zhenyang, INALCO-CRLAO

12.25pm - 1.55pm: Lunch break

Session II - Qiangic in situ
2pm - 2.10pm: Introduction to the session
Chair: Mathieu Beaudouin, TUFS & CRLAO-INALCO
2.10pm - 2.40pm: The vocabulary of weaving in rGyalrongic languages
By Guillaume Jacques, CNRS-CRLAO & EPHE-PSL
2.40pm - 3.10pm: The orientational prefixes of Rma in diachronic perspective
By Nathaniel Sims, University of Oregon
3.10pm - 3.40pm: Exploring Smar in situ: Lexical and morphosyntactic perspectives
By Zhao Haoliang, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-LACITO
3.40pm - 4.10pm: Morphophonology and usage of inverse marking in Yaoji Situ
By Li Ruiyao, Trinity College Dublin & Zhou Hanyu, INALCO

4.10pm - 4.30pm: Break

Session III – Tangut in situ
4.35pm - 4.45pm: Introduction to the session
Chair: Chia-wei Lin, UNIL & Julien Baley, SOAS
4.45pm - 5.15pm: Tangut rjɨr² wjɨ² wji¹: An applicative construction
By Yue Ji, University of Vienna
5.15pm - 5.45pm: Tangut medical vocabulary from an example of a prescription collected in the IOM
By Romain Lefebvre, Bibliothèque nationale de France & Université d’Artois
5.45pm - 6.15pm: Insights into Tangut linguistics from its translations of Tibetan Buddhist texts
By Ma Zhouyang, Austrian Academy of Sciences
6.15pm - 6.45pm: Trois dhāraṇīs en écriture tangoute conservées à Paris
By Sébastien Gréal, CeRMI-INALCO & Sapienza Università di Roma
6.45pm - 7.15pm: Reassessing Northwest Chinese evidence in Tangut phonology
By Mathieu Beaudouin, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies & CRLAO-INALCO

Partners

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