Zev Handel

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

Office: Gowen 245
Office Hours: Aut 2009: MW 2-3 pm

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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Course Schedule (2009-2010)

Seminar in Mandarin Phonology (CHIN 531) - Autumn 2009
Intruduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics (LING 454) - Autumn 2009

The Chinese Language (CHIN 342/442) - Winter 2010

Languages and Cultures of China (ASIAN 211) - Spring 2010
Chinese Historical Phonology (CHIN 542) - Spring 2010


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


Selected Papers/Publications

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

curriculum vitae
(updated June, 2009)

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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