Gong Hwang-cherng () (1934–2010) was a Taiwanese

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who specialized in

Sino-Tibetan Sino-Tibetan, also cited as Trans-Himalayan in a few sources, is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. The vast majority of these are the 1.3 billion native speakers of Chinese languages. ...

comparative linguistics and the phonetic reconstruction of Tangut and

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. He was born on 10 December 1934 at

Yunlin County Yunlin County ( Mandarin pinyin: ''Yúnlín Xiàn''; Taigi POJ: ''Hûn-lîm-koān''; Hakka PFS: ''Yùn-lìm-yen'') is a county in western Taiwan. Yunlin County borders the Taiwan Strait to the west, Nantou County to the east, Changhua County ...

in Taiwan, and graduated from

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in 1958 with a degree in

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. He earned his PhD in 1975 from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in

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, and was a research fellow and later professor at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He was elected an honorary member of the

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in 2001, and an academician of Academia Sinica in 2002. In 2006, he received a life achievement award from the Linguistic Society of Taiwan.

Works

* Gong Huang-cherng (1977). "y guzangwen de y ji qixiangguan wenti ncient Tibetan y and related questions" ''Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica'' 48.2 :205-228. (reprinted in) Gong Hwang-cherng (2002). ''Hanzangyu yanjiulun wenji / Collected Papers on Sino-Tibetan Linguistics.'' Taipei: Zhong yang yan jiu yuan yuyanxue yanjiusuo choubeichu: 379–399. * Gong Hwang-cherng (1980). "A Comparative Study of the Chinese, Tibetan, and Burmese Vowel Systems." ''Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology'' 51.3: 455–490. (reprinted in:) ''Hanzangyu yanjiulun wenji / Collected Papers on Sino-Tibetan Linguistics.'' Taipei: Zhong yang yan jiu yuan yuyanxue yanjiusuo choubeichu, 2002: 1–30. * Gong Hwang-cherng (1995). "The System of Finals in Proto-Sino-Tibetan". ''The Ancestry of the Chinese Language''. William S.-Y. Wang, ed. (Journal of Chinese linguistics. Monograph series 8) Berkeley: Project on Linguistic Analysis, University of California: 41–92. (reprinted in:) ''Hanzangyu yanjiulun wenji / Collected Papers on Sino-Tibetan Linguistics.'' Taipei: Zhong yang yan jiu yuan yuyanxue yanjiusuo choubeichu, 2002: 79–124. * Gong Hwang-cherng (1999). ense vowels and their origin in Xixia ollected Papers of the Institute of History and Philology of Academia Sinica70.2: 531–558. * Gong Hwang-cherng (2001). ime transformation and person agreement in Xixia verbs anguage and Linguistics2.1: 21–67.

References

External links

* Coblin, W. South (2003)
"A Recent Contribution to Sino-Tibetan Linguistics (Review Article)"
''Language and Linguistics'' 4(4):887–902. A review of Gong's ''Collected Papers on Sino-Tibetan Linguistics''. * Miyake, Marc (2004)
"Gong Hwang-cherng: ''Han-Zang yu yanjiu lun wenji''"
''Cahiers de linguistique – Asie orientale'' 33(1):113–121. Another review of ''Collected Papers on Sino-Tibetan Linguistics''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Gong, Hwang-cherng Chinese sinologists Tangutologists Linguists from Taiwan 1934 births 2010 deaths