Zev Handel

Associate Professor of Chinese Language and Linguistics
Asian Languages and Literature
University of Washington

Office: Gowen 245
Office Hours: Spring 2007: Mon 1-3

Email: zhandel@u.washington.edu
Phone: (206) 543-4863

I also have a department page at Asian Languages and Literature with additional information


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I am on leave for the 2007-2008 academic year

Course Schedule (2006-2007)

Special Studies in Chinese: Advanced Reading (CHIN 496) - Autumn 2006

The Chinese Language (CHIN 342/442) - Winter 2007
Seminar in Chinese Linguistics: Sino-Tibetan Linguistics (CHIN 540) - Winter 2007

Introduction to Asian Linguistics (ASIAN 401) - Spring 2007
Mandarin Phonology (CHIN 531) - Spring 2007


Chinese Language Teaching Resources

Download lessons from my Supplementary Materials Packet for Integrated Chinese Level 2.

Computing Resources

Do you have a Macintosh? You can download my TimesPinyin font for Macintosh or my Macintosh keyboard layout for Unicode entry of pinyin

Personal Website

http://www.namkung.com/zev/


Selected Papers/Publications

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Note that these versions are not identical to published versions and may contain errors

curriculum vitae
(updated October, 2005)

The Medial Systems of Old Chinese and Proto-Sino-Tibetan
(doctoral dissertation, UC Berkeley, 1998)
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The *-i-/*-ji- distinction in the Old Chinese reconstruction system of Li Fang-kuei
(Journal of Chinese Linguistics 32.2:179-199, 2004)

Northern Min tone values and the reconstruction of "softened initials"
(Language and Linguistics 4.1:47-84, 2003)

Rethinking the medials of Old Chinese: Where are the r’s?
(Cahiers de Linguistique - Asie Orientale 31.1:3-32, 2002)

Proto-Lolo-Burmese velar clusters and the origin of Lisu palatal sibilants
(Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 25.1:95-112, 2002)

Review of A Study of Rouruo
(Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 26.1:141-162, 2003)

Review of A Study of Sangkong
(Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 27.1:111-142, 2004)

Ingush inflectional verb morphology: a synchronic classification and historical analysis with comparison to Chechen
(In Current trends in Caucasian, East European and Inner Asian linguistics: Papers in honor of Howard I. Aronson, pp. 123-175, John Benjamins, 2003)


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