Thomas Pellard
Biographic Data
| ID | 1720879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Pellard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Pellard |
| SIGNATURE | PELLARD T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6189-1677 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Contrasting modes of cultural evolution
We investigate and compare the evolution of two aspects of culture, languages and weaving technologies, amongst the Kra-Dai (Tai-Kadai) peoples of southwest China and Southeast Asia, using Bayesian Markov-Chain Monte Carlo methods to uncover phylogenies. The results show that languages and looms evolved in related but different ways and bring some new insights into the spread of the Kra-Dai speakers across Southeast Asia. We found that the langua…
Ryukyuan and the reconstruction of proto-Japanese-Ryukyuan
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The implicative structure of Asama verb paradigms
Awakened Lord
The native Japanese name of the Buddha hotoke < poto2ke2 has no internal etymology and is likely to be a loanword introduced together with Buddhism. The hypothesis of a link with Korean pwuche < pwuthye 'Buddha' and of their ultimate origin as deriving from a Chinese rendering of Sanskrit Buddha makes sense from both a linguistic and historical point of view. Still, the last part of the Japanese and Korean forms has no correspondent in Chinese an…
Phylogenies based on lexical innovations refute the Rung hypothesis
Sino-Tibetan (Trans-Himalayan) is one of the typologically most diverse language families in the world, one of the few comprising all gradients of morphological complexity, from isolating to polysynthetic. No consensus exists as yet on whether the rich morphology found in some languages, in particular person indexation, should be reconstructed in the common Sino-Tibetan ancestor or whether it is a later innovation confined to and defining a parti…
Chield
Language is one of the most complex of human traits. There are many hypotheses about how it originated, what factors shaped its diversity, and what ongoing processes drive how it changes. We present the Causal Hypotheses in Evolutionary Linguistics Database (CHIELD, https://chield.excd.org/), a tool for expressing, exploring, and evaluating hypotheses. It allows researchers to integrate multiple theories into a coherent narrative, helping to desi…
A (More) Comparative Approach to Some Japanese Etymologies
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Why /r/ is not a special, empty consonant in Japanese
Dunan grammar (Yonaguni Ryukyuan)
The indicative is a morphological suffix of the form *-mu common to many Ryukyuan languages. Its origins, mysterious as it may be, centres on some of the biggest questions regarding the origin of the Japonic verb system. To this end, numerous linguists have tried their hands explaining where its origins and how it links to the Japanese conclusive. In this paper, I will try to assess some of these past claims and offer my own theory for where the …
The Linguistic archeology of the Ryukyu Islands
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Proto-Japonic *e and *o in Eastern Old Japanese
In this article I examine the correspondences found between Western Old Japanese high vowels and Eastern Old Japanese midvowels in light of the recent hypotheses concerning the Proto-Japonic vowel system. Correspondences in both the morphology and the lexicon are established and then comparative evidence from several modem Japanese and Ryukyuan dialects is adduced to show that these are instances of retention of Proto-Japonic *e and *o
Koguryo, the Language of Japan's Continental Relatives
Review of “Koguryo, the language of Japan's continental relatives: An Introduction to the historical-comparative study of the Japanese-Koguryoic languages with a preliminary description of Archaic Northeastern Middle Chinese”, by Christopher I. Beckwith
Koguryo, the Language of Japan's Continental Relatives
Review of “Koguryo, the language of Japan's continental relatives: An Introduction to the historical-comparative study of the Japanese-Koguryoic languages with a preliminary description of Archaic Northeastern Middle Chinese”, by Christopher I. Beckwith
Proto-Japonic *e and *o in Eastern Old Japanese
In this article I examine the correspondences found between Western Old Japanese high vowels and Eastern Old Japanese midvowels in light of the recent hypotheses concerning the Proto-Japonic vowel system. Correspondences in both the morphology and the lexicon are established and then comparative evidence from several modem Japanese and Ryukyuan dialects is adduced to show that these are instances of retention of Proto-Japonic *e and *o
Dunan grammar (Yonaguni Ryukyuan)
The indicative is a morphological suffix of the form *-mu common to many Ryukyuan languages. Its origins, mysterious as it may be, centres on some of the biggest questions regarding the origin of the Japonic verb system. To this end, numerous linguists have tried their hands explaining where its origins and how it links to the Japanese conclusive. In this paper, I will try to assess some of these past claims and offer my own theory for where the …
The Linguistic archeology of the Ryukyu Islands
International audience
Why /r/ is not a special, empty consonant in Japanese
A (More) Comparative Approach to Some Japanese Etymologies
International audience
Phylogenies based on lexical innovations refute the Rung hypothesis
Sino-Tibetan (Trans-Himalayan) is one of the typologically most diverse language families in the world, one of the few comprising all gradients of morphological complexity, from isolating to polysynthetic. No consensus exists as yet on whether the rich morphology found in some languages, in particular person indexation, should be reconstructed in the common Sino-Tibetan ancestor or whether it is a later innovation confined to and defining a parti…
Chield
Language is one of the most complex of human traits. There are many hypotheses about how it originated, what factors shaped its diversity, and what ongoing processes drive how it changes. We present the Causal Hypotheses in Evolutionary Linguistics Database (CHIELD, https://chield.excd.org/), a tool for expressing, exploring, and evaluating hypotheses. It allows researchers to integrate multiple theories into a coherent narrative, helping to desi…
Awakened Lord
The native Japanese name of the Buddha hotoke < poto2ke2 has no internal etymology and is likely to be a loanword introduced together with Buddhism. The hypothesis of a link with Korean pwuche < pwuthye 'Buddha' and of their ultimate origin as deriving from a Chinese rendering of Sanskrit Buddha makes sense from both a linguistic and historical point of view. Still, the last part of the Japanese and Korean forms has no correspondent in Chinese an…
The implicative structure of Asama verb paradigms
Ryukyuan and the reconstruction of proto-Japanese-Ryukyuan
International audience
Contrasting modes of cultural evolution
We investigate and compare the evolution of two aspects of culture, languages and weaving technologies, amongst the Kra-Dai (Tai-Kadai) peoples of southwest China and Southeast Asia, using Bayesian Markov-Chain Monte Carlo methods to uncover phylogenies. The results show that languages and looms evolved in related but different ways and bring some new insights into the spread of the Kra-Dai speakers across Southeast Asia. We found that the langua…
Linguistics (12 works) · History (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 works) · Language and cultural evolution (4 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)