Zev Handel
Biographic Data
| ID | 706442 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zev Handel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zev |
| FAMILY NAME | Handel |
| SIGNATURE | HANDEL Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington, Seattle |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0360-792X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What Unicode Means to the Humanities
Introduction: Graphemic classifiers in complex script systems
This article explores the role of unpronounced semantic classifiers , also known as graphemic classifiers or determinatives , in three ancient complex scripts: Egyptian, Chinese and Sumerian. These classifiers are silent hieroglyphs, Chinese characters or cuneiform signs that are combined with other signs that carry phonetic information to form a complete written representation of a word. While these classifiers are written and visible, they are …
The Culture of Language in Ming China: Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge
Nathan Vedal's erudite, incisive, and thoroughly researched monograph reexamines the conventional wisdom on Ming-era intellectual culture and its relationship to Qing scholarship. Vedal is primarily concerned with the formation and change of the boundaries of scholarly disciplines. He asks us to examine Ming-era intellectual exchanges in contemporary terms rather than through the lens of Qing or modern-day disciplines. The specific discipline tha…
Diachronic developments in fricative + nasal sequences: A Tibeto-Burman case study
Through comparison of regular sound correspondences in three closely related Tibeto-Burman (TB) languages, Ersu, Lizu, and Duoxu (collectively “ELD”), informed by external comparison with other TB languages and recent phonetic analyses of the production of voiceless nasals, we reconstruct *fricative-nasal sequences in their common ancestor, Proto-ELD. In the development of these historic clusters, two pathways of change can be recognized. Their d…
Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script
"In the more than 3,000 years since its invention, the Chinese script has been adapted many times to write languages other than Chinese, including Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Zhuang. In Sinography: Cross-linguistic Perspectives of the Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script, Zev Handel provides a comprehensive analysis of how the structural features of these languages constrained and motivated methods of script adaptation. This compa…
What is Sino-Tibetan? Snapshot of a Field and a Language Family in Flux
Sino-Tibetan is one of the great language families of the world, containing hundreds of languages spoken by over 1 billion people, from Northeast India to the Southeast Asian peninsula. The best-known languages in the family are Chinese, Tibetan, and Burmese. Although the existence of the family has been recognized for nearly 200 years, significant progress in reconstructing the history of the family was not achieved until the latter half of the …
Chinese Dialect Classification: A Comparative Approach to Harngjou, Old Jintarn, and Common Northern Wu
This volume is an investigation and classification of dialects along the Wu and Jiang-Hwai Mandarin border in China's eastern Yangtze Valley. It is the first monograph-length study to critically question the traditional single criterion of initial voicing for the classification of Wu dialects and propose a comprehensive comparative framework as a more successful alternative. Arguing that dialect affiliation is best determined through analysis of …
What is Sino-Tibetan? Snapshot of a Field and a Language Family in Flux
Sino-Tibetan is one of the great language families of the world, containing hundreds of languages spoken by over 1 billion people, from Northeast India to the Southeast Asian peninsula. The best-known languages in the family are Chinese, Tibetan, and Burmese. Although the existence of the family has been recognized for nearly 200 years, significant progress in reconstructing the history of the family was not achieved until the latter half of the …
Chinese Dialect Classification: A Comparative Approach to Harngjou, Old Jintarn, and Common Northern Wu
This volume is an investigation and classification of dialects along the Wu and Jiang-Hwai Mandarin border in China's eastern Yangtze Valley. It is the first monograph-length study to critically question the traditional single criterion of initial voicing for the classification of Wu dialects and propose a comprehensive comparative framework as a more successful alternative. Arguing that dialect affiliation is best determined through analysis of …
What is Sino-Tibetan? Snapshot of a Field and a Language Family in Flux
Sino-Tibetan is one of the great language families of the world, containing hundreds of languages spoken by over 1 billion people, from Northeast India to the Southeast Asian peninsula. The best-known languages in the family are Chinese, Tibetan, and Burmese. Although the existence of the family has been recognized for nearly 200 years, significant progress in reconstructing the history of the family was not achieved until the latter half of the …
Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script
"In the more than 3,000 years since its invention, the Chinese script has been adapted many times to write languages other than Chinese, including Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Zhuang. In Sinography: Cross-linguistic Perspectives of the Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script, Zev Handel provides a comprehensive analysis of how the structural features of these languages constrained and motivated methods of script adaptation. This compa…
Diachronic developments in fricative + nasal sequences: A Tibeto-Burman case study
Through comparison of regular sound correspondences in three closely related Tibeto-Burman (TB) languages, Ersu, Lizu, and Duoxu (collectively “ELD”), informed by external comparison with other TB languages and recent phonetic analyses of the production of voiceless nasals, we reconstruct *fricative-nasal sequences in their common ancestor, Proto-ELD. In the development of these historic clusters, two pathways of change can be recognized. Their d…
The Culture of Language in Ming China: Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge
Nathan Vedal's erudite, incisive, and thoroughly researched monograph reexamines the conventional wisdom on Ming-era intellectual culture and its relationship to Qing scholarship. Vedal is primarily concerned with the formation and change of the boundaries of scholarly disciplines. He asks us to examine Ming-era intellectual exchanges in contemporary terms rather than through the lens of Qing or modern-day disciplines. The specific discipline tha…
Introduction: Graphemic classifiers in complex script systems
This article explores the role of unpronounced semantic classifiers , also known as graphemic classifiers or determinatives , in three ancient complex scripts: Egyptian, Chinese and Sumerian. These classifiers are silent hieroglyphs, Chinese characters or cuneiform signs that are combined with other signs that carry phonetic information to form a complete written representation of a word. While these classifiers are written and visible, they are …
What Unicode Means to the Humanities
Linguistics (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works) · Acoustics (1 works)