A Recent Contribution to Sino-Tibetan Linguistics (Review Article)

In 2002 the Institute of Linguistics (Preparatory Office) of Academia Sinica published as part of its Language and Linguistics Monograph Series two volumes of collected articles by Professor Hwang-cherng Gong 龔煌城, distinguished member of the Institute and internationally acclaimed specialist in Sinology and Linguistics. The first of these, Collected Papers on Tangut Philology, deals with the Tangut or Xīxià 西 夏 language.1 The second is entitled Collected Papers on Sino-Tibetan Linguistics and is devoted to a rather wide range of topics in the Sino-Tibetan field exclusive of the Tangut specialty per se.2 It is the latter collection which is the subject of the present review.