Hilary Chappell

Hilary Chappell is a professor of linguistics at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris. Her research focuses on grammaticalization and the typology of the Sinitic languages.^[1]^[2]

Biography

Chappell graduated from the

UCSB and the University of Southern California as a Fulbright scholar (1987–1988), she took up a position as Reader in the linguistics department at La Trobe University, Melbourne, where she taught for eighteen years.^[1]^[2]^[3] In 2005 she was appointed senior researcher first class at the French National Centre for Scientific Research and professor at EHESS, serving in 2007–8 as director of its Centre for Linguistic Research on East Asia (Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l’Asie Orientale, CRLAO).^[1]

Chappell has been the recipient of numerous honours and awards. In 1999 she received a Senior Scholar award from the

Ministry of Education.^[3]

Research

Chappell has worked on various topics in the synchrony and diachrony of the Sinitic languages, particularly from the perspective of grammaticalization and linguistic typology. Her work on object-marking constructions is based on evidence from over 600 Chinese dialects, and she has carried out extensive fieldwork on the Xianghua language of Hunan province. Her work on areal patterns of grammaticalization makes the case that there are five major dialect areas within China.^[3]

Selected publications

Chappell, Hilary M. 1980. Is the get‐passive adversative? Research on Language & Social Interaction 13 (3), 411–452.
doi:10.1080/08351818009370504

Chappell, Hilary M., and William McGregor (eds.). 1996. The grammar of inalienability: A typological perspective on body part terms and the part-whole relation. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
ISBN 9783110128048

Chappell, Hilary M., and William McGregor. 1996. Prolegomena to a theory of inalienability. In Chappell & McGregor (eds.), 3–30.

Chappell, Hilary M. 2001. Language contact and areal diffusion in Sinitic languages: problems for typology and genetic affiliation. In R. M. W. Dixon & Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (eds.), Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance: Problems in Comparative Linguistics, 328–357. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Chappell, Hilary M. (ed.). 2001. Sinitic grammar: synchronic and diachronic perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780198299776

Chappell, Hilary M. 2008. Variation in the grammaticalization of complementizers from verba dicendi in Sinitic languages. Linguistic Typology 12 (1), 45–98.
doi:10.1515/LITY.2008.032

Chappell, Hilary M. (ed.). 2015. Diversity in Sinitic languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780198723790

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Hilary M. Chappell". Academia Europaea. Retrieved 29 January 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Hilary Chappell". 2009 Linguistic Institute. Retrieved 29 January 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Hilary M. Chappell - Biography". Academia Europaea. Retrieved 29 January 2023.
^ "The hybrid syntactic typology of Sinitic languages". CORDIS. Retrieved 29 January 2023.

External links

Hilary Chappell publications indexed by Google Scholar

[ae-1] "Hilary M. Chappell". Academia Europaea. Retrieved 29 January 2023.

[lsa-2] "Hilary Chappell". 2009 Linguistic Institute. Retrieved 29 January 2023.

[ae-cv-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Hilary M. Chappell - Biography". Academia Europaea. Retrieved 29 January 2023.

[cordis-4] "The hybrid syntactic typology of Sinitic languages". CORDIS. Retrieved 29 January 2023.

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