时       间： 2019.12.19

地       点： 中国 北京 北京大学3教108

主办单位： 北京大学中国语言学研究中心

与会人数： 待定

【讲座】Nathan W. Hill：跨喜马拉雅诸语中的印度-雅利安借词

讲座题目：*áru̯ant- ‘steed, courser’:  an Indo-Aryan loan into Trans-Himalayan

讲座海报：

主讲人：

Nathan W. Hill  英国伦敦大学亚非学院语言学系藏文及历史语言学 教授

主持人：

陈保亚  北京大学中文系教授、北京大学中国语言学研究中心主任

时间及讲座地点：

2019年12月19日13:00—15:00

北京大学 3教108

演讲语言：

英语

内容简介：

Despite their resemblance, the words for ‘horse’ in Chinese, mǎ (< MChin. maeX < OChin. *mˤraʔ; 01-73a), Tibetan, rmaṅ, and Burmese, mraṅḥ cannot not be traced back to a common source. This – along with archaeological evidence – strongly suggests that the ‘horse’ word is a Wanderwort borrowed from outside of the Trans-Himalayan region. We propose that the Trans-Himalayan words have their origin in Indo-Aryan árvant- ‘steed, courser’. We show (1) that *árṳant- was one of the main words for horse already in Proto-Indo-Iranian, (2) that there is archaeological, historical, and philological evidence as well as (3) phonological plausibility that Indo-Aryan *árṳant- was the source for the Trans-Himalayan words for ‘horse’. We also make clear that existing etymologies for the ‘horse’ word in Trans-Himalayan, including a borrowing from Celtic and Germanic *marko- and descent from Sino-Tibetan *s/m-ra-ŋ are unlikely on linguistic and archaeological grounds.

主讲人简介：

Nathan W. Hill（1979-），美国人，英国伦敦大学亚非学院（SOAS, University of London）语言学系藏文及历史语言学教授，博士生导师。多年来，Hill教授致力于跨喜马拉雅地区汉藏语历史比较研究。其近期成果包括：The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese（2019）、‘The differing status of reconstruction in Trans-Himalayan and Indo-European’（2019）、‘The derivation of the Tibetan present prefix g- from ḥ-’（2019）、‘Towards a standardized annotation of rhyme judgments in Chinese historical phonology (and beyond)’（2019）、‘Tibetan zero nominalization’（2019）等。此外，还编著了Evidential Systems of Tibetan Languages（2017）、Trans-Himalayan Linguistics: Historical and Descriptive Linguistics of the Himalayan Area（2014）等知名语言学著作。