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Laurent Sagart

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Laurent Sagart
Born1951 (age 72–73)
Paris, France
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Paris 7(Ph.D.)
University of Provence(doctorat d'État)
Academic work
InstitutionsFrench National Centre for Scientific Research
Main interestsChinese linguistics,Sino-Tibetan,Austronesian
Chinese name
Traditional ChineseSa thêm ngươi
Simplified ChineseSa thêm ngươi

Laurent Sagart(French:[saɡaʁ];born 1951) is a senior researcher at the Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l'Asie orientale (CRLAO – UMR 8563) unit of theFrench National Centre for Scientific Research(CNRS).[1]

Biography[edit]

Born in Paris in 1951,[2]he earned his Ph.D. in 1977 at theUniversity of Paris 7[3]and hisdoctorat d'Étatin 1990 atUniversity of Aix-Marseille 1.[4]His early work focused onChinese dialectology.He then turned his attention toOld Chinese,attempting a reconstruction of Old Chinese that separated word roots and affixes.[5]His recent work, in collaboration withWilliam H. Baxter,is a reconstruction of Old Chinese that builds on earlier scholarship and in addition takes into account paleography, phonological distinctions in conservative Chinese dialects (Min,Hakka,andWaxiang) as well as the early layers of Chinese loanwords toVietic,Hmong-Mienand to a lesser extent,Kra-Dai.[6]A reconstruction of 4,000 Chinese characters has been published online.[7]Their 2014 book has been awarded theLeonard Bloomfield Book Awardfrom theLinguistic Society of America.[8]

Sino-Austronesian[edit]

Main article:Sino-Austronesian languages

Sagart is known for his proposal of theSino-Austronesianlanguage family. He considers theAustronesian languagesto be related to theSino-Tibetan languages,[9]and also treats theTai–Kadai languagesas a sister group to theMalayo-Polynesian languageswithin the Austronesian language family.

Indo-European[edit]

Laurent Sagart also contributed to Indo-European studies. He co-authored a proposal that the ability to digest milk played an important role in the Indo-European expansion (Garnier et al. 2017), and took part in a controversy in French academia concerning Indo-European studies (Pellard et al. 2018).

Origin of Sino-Tibetan language family[edit]

Along with numerous researchers such as Valentin Thouzeau, Robin J. Ryder,Simon J. Greenhill,Johann-Mattis List,Guillaume Jacquesand Yunfan Lai, Sagart conclude in a study published in theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of Americathat the Sino-Tibetan languages originated amongmilletfarmers, located in Northern China, around 7,200 years ago.[10][11]

Selected works[edit]

  • Sagart, Laurent (1982). "A List of Sung Him Tong Hakka words of dubious etymology".Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale.11(2): 69–86.doi:10.3406/clao.1982.1116.ISSN0153-3320.
  • Sagart, Laurent (1993). "Chinese and Austronesian: Evidence for a Genetic Relationship".Journal of Chinese Linguistics.21(1): 1–63.
  • Sagart, Laurent (1994). "Proto-Austronesian and Old Chinese Evidence for Sino-Austronesian".Oceanic Linguistics.33(2): 271–308.doi:10.2307/3623130.JSTOR3623130.
  • Sagart, Laurent;Baxter, William H.(1997). "Word Formation in Old Chinese". In Packard, Jerome L. (ed.).New Approaches to Chinese Word Formation.Perspectives in Analytical Linguistics. Vol. 105.
  • Sagart, Laurent (1999).The Roots of Old Chinese.Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. Vol. 184. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.
  • Sagart, Laurent (2004)."The Higher Phylogeny of Austronesian and the Position of Tai-Kadai"(PDF).Oceanic Linguistics.43(2): 411–44.doi:10.1353/ol.2005.0012.S2CID49547647.
  • Shā Jiā’ěr sa thêm ngươi [Laurent Sagart] and Bái Yīpíng bạch một bình [William H. Baxter]. 2010. Shànggǔ Hànyǔ de N- hé m- qiánzhuì thượng cổ Hán ngữ N- cùng m- tiền tố. Hàn-Zàng yǔ xuébào hán tàng ngữ học báo [Journal of Sino-Tibetan Linguistics] 4. 62–69.
  • Sagart, Laurent; Baxter, William H. (2014).Old Chinese: A New Reconstruction.Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Garnier, Romain;Sagart, Laurent; Sagot, Benoît (2017). "Milk and the Indo-Europeans". In Robbeets, Martine; Savelyev, Alexander (eds.).Language Dispersal Beyond Farming(PDF).pp. 291–311.doi:10.1075/z.215.hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-002E-910A-0.ISBN978-90-272-1255-9.S2CID135078791.
  • Pellard, Thomas; Jacques, Guillaume; Sagart, Laurent (2018). "L'indo-européen n'est pas un mythe".Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris.113(1): 79–102.doi:10.2143/BSL.113.1.3285465.S2CID171874630.[12]
  • Sagart, Laurent; Jacques, Guillaume; Lai, Yunfan; Ryder, Robin; Thouzeau, Valentin; Greenhill, Simon J.; List, Johann-Mattis (2019)."Dated language phylogenies shed light on the ancestry of Sino-Tibetan".Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.116(21): 10317–10322.Bibcode:2019PNAS..11610317S.doi:10.1073/pnas.1817972116.PMC6534992.PMID31061123.

References[edit]

  1. ^"Laurent Sagart".Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l'Asie orientale.Archived fromthe originalon 2013-10-14.Retrieved2013-11-14.
  2. ^"Interview with Laurent Sagart".Archives Audiovisuelles de la Recherche(in French). Archived fromthe originalon 2015-04-14.Retrieved2013-11-14.
  3. ^Sagart, L. (1982) Phonologie du dialecte Hakka de Sung Him Tong. Paris: Langages croisés. 153p.
  4. ^Sagart, L. (1993) Les dialectes gan. Paris: Langages Croisés. 285 p.
  5. ^Sagart, L. (1999). The Roots of Old Chinese. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 184. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  6. ^Baxter, William H. and Laurent Sagart (2014).Old Chinese: a New Reconstruction.Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  7. ^Baxter, W; Sagart, L,Baxter-Sagart Old Chinese reconstruction (v. 1.00),archived fromthe originalon 2011-08-14,retrieved2012-12-11
  8. ^"Old Chinese: A New Reconstruction wins Bloomfield Book Award".
  9. ^Sagart, L. (2005) Sino-Tibetan-Austronesian: an updated and improved argument. In L. Sagart, R. Blench and A. Sanchez-Mazas (eds) The peopling of East Asia: Putting together Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics 161–176. London: RoutledgeCurzon.
  10. ^Laurent Sagart; Guillaume Jacques; Yunfan Lai; Robin J. Ryder; Valentin Thouzeau; Simon J. Greenhill; Johann-Mattis List (May 2019)."Dated language phylogenies shed light on the ancestry of Sino-Tibetan".Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.116(21): 10317–10322.Bibcode:2019PNAS..11610317S.doi:10.1073/pnas.1817972116.PMC6534992.PMID31061123.
  11. ^"Origin of Sino-Tibetan language family revealed by new research".ScienceDaily.May 6, 2019.Retrieved16 May2021.
  12. ^Pellard, Thomas; Sagart, Laurent; Jacques, Guillaume (2018)."L'Indo-européen n'est pas un mythe".Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris.113(1): 79–102.doi:10.2143/BSL.113.1.3285465.S2CID171874630.

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