Guillaume Jacques

Guillaume Jacques
Citizenship	France
Fields	Linguistics
Institutions	Paris Descartes University
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 name Chinese: 向柏霖; pinyin: Xiàng Bólín) is a French linguist of Breton descent who specializes in the study of Tibeto-Burman languages, in particular Old Chinese, Tangut and Tibetan. He has also done research on the Breton language.

Biography

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 post at the Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale.^[1]

2000. "The character ywij and the reconstruction of the Zhi and Wei rhymes"; Cahiers de Linguistique: Asie Orientale 29.2: 205–222.
2003. "Jiarongyu, Zangyu ji Shanggu Hanyu de -s houzhui" (嘉绒语、藏语及上古汉语的-s后缀) [The –s suffix in Rgyalrong, Archaic Chinese and Tibetan]; Minzu Yuwen (民族语文) 2003.1: 12–15.
2003. "Un cas de dissimilation labiale en chinois archaïque : la racine 'couvrir, renverser' et son équivalent en tibétain"; Cahiers de Linguistique: Asie Orientale 32.1: 123–130.
2004. "Chabaohua de chongdie xingshi" (茶堡话的重叠形式) [Reduplication in Japhug]. Minzu Yuyan (民族语文) 2004.4: 7–11.
2007. Textes tangoutes I, Nouveau recueil sur l'amour parental et la piété filiale. München: Lincom Europa. ISBN 3895867668
2007. "A shared suppletive pattern in the pronominal systems of Chang Naga and Southern Chang"; Cahiers de Linguistique: Asie Orientale 36.1:61–78.
2008. Jiarongyu Yanjiu (嘉绒语研究) [A study on the rGyalrong language]. Beijing: Minzu chubanshe. ISBN 7105096046
2008. Xixiayu de mingcixing weiyu (西夏语的名词性谓语) [On nominal predicates in Tangut]; Minzu Yuwen (民族语文) 2008.4: 37–39.
2009. "The origin of vowel alternations in the Tangut verb"; Language and Linguistics 10.1: 17–27.
2010. "The inverse in Japhug Rgyalrong"; Language & Linguistics 11.1:127–157.