Guillaume Jacques | |
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 Guillaume Jacques presenting a talk at SOAS, University of London, April 2013 | |
| Born | 1979 (age 44–45) |
| Citizenship | France |
| Alma mater | Paris Diderot University |
| Known for | Study of Rgyalrongic languages and Tangut language |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Linguistics |
| Institutions | Paris Descartes University, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| Doctoral advisor | Marie-Claude Paris |
| Other academic advisors | Laurent Sagart |
Guillaume Jacques (Chinese: 向柏霖; pinyin: Xiàng Bólín, born 1979[1]) is a French linguist who specializes in the study of Sino-Tibetan languages: Old Chinese, Tangut, Tibetan, Gyalrongic and Kiranti languages. He also performs research on the Algonquian and Siouan language families and 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.
Jacques is one of the main contributors to the Pangloss Collection, an open archive of endangered-language data.[2]
Guillaume Jacques was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal in 2015.[3]
- ^ Blench, Roger; Sagart, Laurent; Sanchez-Mazas, Alicia (2005). The Peopling of East Asia: Putting Together Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics. Routledge. p. xvii. ISBN 9781134353125.
- ^ See Jacques' contributions to Pangloss Archived 2016-04-14 at the Wayback Machine; and the presentation of his Japhug recordings Archived 2016-04-14 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ List of laureates for the CNRS Bronze medal, 2016 Archived 2011-03-07 at the Wayback Machine; see also CNRS press release Archived 2018-03-05 at the Wayback Machine, 8 Oct 2015.