A list of my publications

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2006 Mandarin dialect phylogeny. Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 35.71–114.
2006 Sergej Anatol'evič Starostin, March 24, 1953 – September 30, 2005. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 34.164–166.
2002
Where does the ‘Comparative method’ come from?  In The linguist’s linguist:  a collection of papers in honour of Alexis Manaster Ramer, ed. by Fabrice Cavoto, 33–52.  Muenchen:  LINGCOM EUROPA.
2000 (with Alexis Manaster Ramer)  Beyond lumping and splitting:  probabilistic issues in historical linguistics.  In Time depth in historical linguistics, ed. by Colin Renfrew, April McMahon & Larry Trask, 167–188.  Cambridge:  McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
2000 Did Proto-Mandarin exist?  Journal of Chinese Linguistics 28.100–115.
1999 Reconstructing Proto-“Mandarin” retroflex initials. In Issues in Chinese dialect description and classification (Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monographs, 15), ed. by Richard VanNess Simmons, 1–35.  Berkeley:  Project on Linguistic Analysis.
1999 Eulogy: Nicholas C. Bodman (1913–1997). Journal of Chinese Linguistics 27.190–191.
1998 Response to Oswalt and Ringe. In Nostratic: Sifting the Evidence, ed. by Joseph C. Salmons and Brian D. Joseph, 217–236. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
1998 Situating the language of the Lao-tzu: the probable date of the Tao-te-ching. Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching, ed. by Livia Kohn and Michael LaFargue, 231–253. Albany: State University Press of New York.
1997 (with Laurent Sagart). Word formation in Old Chinese. New approaches to Chinese word formation, ed. by Jerome Packard, 35–76. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 
1996 (with Alexis Manaster Ramer). Review of Donald A. Ringe, Jr., On calculating the factor of chance in language comparison (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1992). Diachronica 13:371–84.
1995 "A stronger affinity ... than could have been produced by accident": a probabilistic comparison of Old Chinese and Tibeto-Burman. The ancestry of the Chinese language (Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monographs, 8), ed. by William S.-Y. Wang, 1–39. Berkeley: Project on Linguistic Analysis.
1994 Guanyu Shangguyin de sige jiashe 關於上古音的四個假設 [Four hypotheses on Old Chinese phonology]. 《中國境內語言暨語言學 Zhongguo jingnei yuyan ji yuyanxue, ed. by Li Jen-kuei 李壬癸, Huang Churen 黃居仁, and Tang Chih-chen 湯志真, 2:41–60. Taipei: Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica [Zhongyang yanjiuyuan Lishi yuyan yanjiusuo 中央研究院歷史語言研究所] .
1994 Reply to Pulleyblank. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 22:139–60.
1994 Some phonological correspondences between Chinese and Tibeto-Burman. Current Issues in Sino-Tibetan Linguistics, ed. by Hajime Kitamura [北村甫], Tatsuo Nishida [西田龍雄] and Yasuhiko Nanago [長野泰彦], 25–35. Osaka: The Organizing Committee, 26th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics.
1993 Pre-Qieyun distinctions in the Min dialects. First International Symposium on Languages in Taiwan, Taipei.
1993 Review of Johanna Nichols, Linguistic diversity in space and time (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992). Science 259:1927–1928.
1992 A handbook of Old Chinese phonology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
1991 Zhou and Han phonology in the Shijing. In Studies in the historical phonology of Asian languages, ed. by William G. Boltz and Michael C. Shapiro, 1–34. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
1989 Review of Marie-Claude Paris, Problèmes de syntaxe et de sémantique en linguistique chinoise (Paris: Collège de France, Institut des Hautes Études chinoises). Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 24:111–8.
1987 Review of E. G. Pulleyblank, Middle Chinese: a study in historical phonology (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press). Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 47:635–56.
1986 Chinese and Japanese CAI at the University of Michigan. Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 21:19–26.
1986 Old Chinese *-u and *-iw in the Shi-jing. In Contributions to Sino-Tibetan studies, ed. by John McCoy and Timothy Light, 258–82. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
1985 Language and language policy in Singapore. Social Education 49:116–7.
1985 Tibeto-Burman cognates of Old Chinese *-ij and *-ɨj. Linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area: the state of the art—Papers presented to Paul K. Benedict for his 71st birthday, ed. by Graham Thurgood, James A. Matisoff and David Bradley, 242–63. Canberra: The Australian National University.
1984 Formal semantics of a fragment of Chinese. Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 19:37–52.
1984 Review of W. South Coblin, A handbook of Eastern Han sound glosses (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1983). Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 48:170–1.
1983 A look at the history of Chinese color terminology. Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 18:1–25.
1983 Shanggu Hanyu *sr- de fazhan 上古汉语 *sr- 的发展 [The development of Old Chinese *sr-]. YuyanYanjiu 《语言研究》 (Wuhan) 4:22–6.
1982 Review of Paul Fu-Mien Yang, Chinese dialectology: a selected and classified bibliography (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1981). Journal of Asian Studies 41:158–9.
1980 Some proposals on Old Chinese phonology. Contributions in historical linguistics: issues and materials, ed. by Frans van Coetsem and Linda R. Waugh, 1–33. Leiden: E. J. Brill.


University of Michigan:Department of Asian Languages and Cultures | Department of Linguistics

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