PrefaceChapter 1. Introduction Chapter author: Dan Xu (INALCO, France) and Hui Li(School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, China)Chapter 2. Correlation between genetic structure and linguistic phylogeny in East AsiaChapter author: Yunzhi Huang and Hui Li (School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, China)The chapterprovides a general landscape of correlation between population and languages in East Asia. Chapter 3. A genetic perspective on language replacement in SiberiaChapter author: LanhaiWei and Hui Li (School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, China)The chapter treats language replacement in the light of biological research. Chapter 4. The Silk Road: language and population admixture and replacementChapter author: Dan Xu (INALCO, France) and Shaoqing Wen (School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, China)The chapter focusses on languages and populations on the Silk Road within China. Chapter 5. A comparative analysis of the case system in someNorthwestern SiniticlanguagesChapter author: Alain Peyraube(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Chinese Linguistics at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France)Thechapter re-examines the case system recently formed in Northwestern China. Chapter 6. Relationship between Altaic speaking populations and their languages from the perspective of Y chromosomesChapter author: Shaoqing Wen(School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, China), Xiaodong Xie(Institute of Medical Genetics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, China)and Dan Xu(INALCO, France)The Chapter studies languages and populations at the border of Gansu and Qinghai.
Dan Xu, Ph.D. is Exceptional Category Professor (Professeur
de classe exceptionnelle) at the INALCO (Institut des Langues et
Civilisations Orientales) in France. In 2009 she was elected Senior
Member at IUF (University Institute of France). Her research
interests focus on syntax in Chinese, language typology and
language contacts. Her major works include: 1996/2010. (second
printing) Initiation à la syntaxe chinoise [Introduction to Chinese
Syntax] Paris: l'Asiathèque. 2006/2014 (Reprinted in China by World
Publishing Corporation). Typological change in Chinese Syntax,
Oxford University Press. 2014. Tangwang hua yanjiu [Studies of the
Tangwang language] Beijing: Minzu chubanshe. 2017 (To appear)
Chuanshi wenxian yu chutu wenxian de lishi jufa yanjiu. [Studies on
diachronic syntax based on transmitted and excavated texts]
Beijing: Shangwu yinshuguan [Commercial Press]. Project leader of
the ACI (03 3 26) Space and its representations in East
Asia’s languages (2003–2007), the ANR (ANR-06-BLAN0259)
Quantification and Plurality (2006-2011), the ANR
(ANR-12-BSH2-0004-01) Is there a correlation between languages and
genes?-Studies in the Northwest area in China (2012 -2016).
Hui Li, Ph.D., Professor of Human Biology at Fudan
University, vice dean of Asian Institute of Humanity and Nature at
Macau, council member of Chinese Association of Anthropology and
Ethnology, Chinese Society of Anthropology, NSFC Excellent Youth
Foundation awardee, editor of several international academic
journals. His major research interest is molecular anthropology,
including the origin, evolution, and adaptation of East Asians, and
the genetic effects of civilization emergence and development. He
has published more than 200 papers in journals including Science
and Nature. His books published include Y Chromosome and
Diversification of East Asians, You Who Came From Apes, Ethnic
History of Greater Canton, Pictorial Flora of Fudan, Dônđäc: a
language with the largest vowel inventory in the world, Our
Self-Identification, The Laureates Stories of Lifetime Achievement
Awards in Anthropology, Tao Te Ching: restored ancient text. He has
also translated books including My Beautiful Genome and Seven
Daughters of Eve.
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