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Nathan W. Hill
American linguist and Tibetologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nathan Wayne Hill (born July 8, 1979) is an American historical linguist and Tibetologist specializing in languages of the Sino-Tibetan family, in particular Tibetic languages.
Nathan W. Hill | |
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Born | Nathan Wayne Hill (1979-07-08) July 8, 1979 (age 45) |
Nationality | American |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Harvard University |
Doctoral advisor | Leonard van der Kuijp |
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Discipline | Linguist |
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He is Sam Lam Professor in Chinese Studies and director of the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies at Trinity College Dublin.[1] He was previously reader in Tibetan and historical linguistics at SOAS, East Asian Languages and Cultures, and served as head of department from 2017 to 2019.[2]
He is particularly well known for his work on comparative Sino-Tibetan, Old Tibetan philology, as well as linguistic typology (especially mirativity and evidentiality).
From 2014 to 2020, Hill was a principal investigator on Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State, a project funded by the European Research Council and hosted by the British Museum.[3][4] During the academic year 2015–2016 he was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley,[5] and in 2020–2021 at Oxford's Oriental Institute.[6]