西田文信教授（早稻田大學）將於3月12日舉行學術講座，誠邀出席參加，詳情如下：

講題：An Introduction to Bhutan dialect of Lepcha: from Sino-Tibetan perspective

日期：2026年3月12日（星期四）

時間：16:00-17:30

地點：馮景禧樓220

語言：英語、普通話

主持：郭必之教授

内容簡介：

This paper examines lexical and phonological correspondences between Old Chinese and Lepcha, drawing on primary fieldwork data collected by myself. Lepcha, also known as Róng, is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Lepcha people in Sikkim, India, as well as in parts of West Bengal, Nepal, and Bhutan. After providing an overview of the sociolinguistic profile of Lepcha and a critical survey of previous scholarship, I present the results of a detailed phonetic and phonological analysis of newly documented Lepcha materials collected in Bhutan. The analysis highlights the structural composition of syllables, with particular attention to medial glides, vowel categories, and coda consonants, together with the distribution and function of prefixes and suffixes in Lepcha morphology. This study underscores the methodological value of integrating synchronic fieldwork with diachronic reconstruction and emphasizes the significance of minority language documentation for advancing the historical-comparative study of major classical languages.

嘉賓簡介：

Fuminobu Nishida (西田文信) is a professor in Department of Cultural Sciences, School of Education at Waseda University. After studying at universities in Japan, Hawai‘i, and Hong Kong, he received his Ph.D in Linguistics from Tohoku University. His research focuses on descriptive studies in Tibeto-Burman linguistics, and he has conducted extensive fieldwork on languages such as Namuyi and Choyo in Sichuan Province, China, as well as Mangdebikha and Brokkat in the Kingdom of Bhutan. His publications include A Descriptive Linguistic Study of Namuyi, 1500 Basic Vocabulary in Dzongkha, Expressions in Dzongkha and Japanese-Dzongkha Pictorial Dictionary, among others.

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