Guillaume Jacques
Guillaume Jacques presenting a talk atSOAS, University of London, April 2013
Born	1979 (age 46–47)
Citizenship	France
Alma mater	Paris Diderot University
Known for	Study ofRgyalrongic languages andTangut 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 Frenchlinguist who specializes in the study ofSino-Tibetan languages:Old Chinese,Tangut,Tibetan,Gyalrongic andKiranti languages. He also performs research on theAlgonquian andSiouan language families and publishes about languages of other families such asBreton. His case studies in historical phonology are set in the framework ofpanchronic 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 thePangloss Collection, anopen archive ofendangered-language data.^[2]

Guillaume Jacques was awarded theCNRS Bronze Medal in 2015.^[3]

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

Guillaume Jacques is one of the Editors of the linguistics journalCahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale. He is a member of theeditorial board ofDiachronica,Linguistics Vanguard, andLinguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area.

• 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 Yuwen (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 978-3-89586-766-8
• 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 978-7-105-09604-6
• 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.
• 2010. "Notes complémentaires sur les verbes à alternance ‘dr/'br en tibétain”,Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines, no. 19, Octobre 2010, pp. 27–29.
• 2011. “A Panchronic Study of Aspirated Fricatives, with New Evidence from Pumi.”Lingua 121 (9): 1518–38.
• 2012. “Argument Demotion in Japhug Rgyalrong.” InErgativity, Valency and Voice, 199–225. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
• 2013. “Harmonization and Disharmonization of Affix Ordering and Basic Word Order.”Linguistic Typology 17.2: 187–217.
• 2013. “Applicative and Tropative Derivations in Japhug Rgyalrong.”Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 36.2: 1-13.
• 2014. “Denominal Affixes as Sources of Antipassive Markers in Japhug Rgyalrong.”Lingua 138: 1–22.
• 2015. "On the cluster *sr–in Sino-Tibetan",Journal of Chinese Linguistics 43.1: 215–223.
• 2019. "Dated language phylogenies shed light on the ancestry of Sino-Tibetan". by Sagart, Laurent and Jacques, Guillaume and Lai, Yunfan and Ryder, Robin and Thouzeau, Valentin and Greenhill, Simon J. and List, Johann-Mattis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 21. 10317-10322.doi:10.1073/pnas.1817972116
• 2021.A grammar ofJaphug. Berlin: Language Science Press.ISBN 978-3-96110-305-8 (digital),ISBN 978-3-98554-001-3 (hardcover).

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