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Zev Handel

Associate Professor

245 Gowen Hall
Box 353521
Seattle, WA 98195-3521
(206) 543-4863; Fax (206) 685-4268
zhandel@u.washington.edu
http://faculty.washington.edu/zhandel/

 
Zev Handel
     

Education

  • AB Mathematics. Harvard College, 1988.
  • MA East Asian Languages. University of California - Berkeley, 1992.
  • PhD Chinese Language. University of California - Berkeley, 1998.

Research & Teaching Fields

  • Chinese language, historical phonology, Chinese dialectology, Tibeto-Burman languages, comparative Sino-Tibetan linguistics, Asian writing systems

Selected Publications

  • Old Chinese Medials and their Sino-Tibetan Origins: A Comparative Study. Monograph series, Linguistics Institute, Academia Sinica (2010).
  • "Preliminary remarks on the influence of linguistic typology on Asian sinography." SCRIPTA 1.1 (2009).
  • "Reflections on the historical origin of the Northern Min softened initials." Language and Linguistics 10.1 (2009): 1-16.
  • "What is Sino-Tibetan? Snapshot of a field and a language family in flux." Language and Linguistics Compass 2.3 (2008): 422–441.
  • "Notes on Old Chinese bilabial dissimilation, with reference to yì 邑 ‘city’ and yōng 邕 ‘moat’." In Linguistic studies in Chinese and neighboring languages: Festschrift in honor of Professor Pang-Hsin Ting on his 70th birthday, ed. Dah-an Ho et al. Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica (2007): 1013-1033.
  • "Methodological considerations in the application of Tibeto-Burman comparison to the reconstruction of Old Chinese." In Studies on Sino-Tibetan languages: papers in honor of Professor Hwang-cherng Gong on his seventieth birthday, ed. Ying-chin Lin et al. Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica (2004): 603-620.
  • "The *-i-/*-ji- distinction in the Old Chinese reconstruction system of Li Fang-kuei." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 32.2 (2004):179-199.
  • "Northern Min tone values and the reconstruction of 'softened initials'." Language and Linguistics 4.1 (2003): 47-84.
  • "Proto-Lolo-Burmese velar clusters and the origin of Lisu palatal sibilants." Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 25.1 (2002): 95-112.
  • "Rethinking the medials of Old Chinese: Where are the r's?" Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 31.1 (2002): 3-32.

Current Research Projects

  • Comparative study of the development of Sinographic (Chinese-character based) writing systems in Asia.
  • History of the Northern Min dialects of Fujian Province.
 

Courses Taught

  • Chinese 201-202-203
  • Chinese 531-532-533
  • Chinese 342/442
  • Chinese 540
  • Chinese 542
  • Asian 211
  • Asian 401

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