Christopher Beckwith

Christopher Beckwith

Christopher I. Beckwith (born 1945) is a professor of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.

He received his Ph.D. degree from Indiana University in Uralic and Altaic Studies (1977).

He specializes in Asian language studies and linguistics, and in the history of Central Eurasia. He teaches Tibetan and Central Eurasian languages and Central Eurasian history.

Publications

*Beckwith, Christopher I. (1977). A Study of the Early Medieval Chinese, Latin, and Tibetan Historical Sources on Pre-Imperial Tibet. Indiana University PhD Dissertation.
*Beckwith (1979): (review of) "Mission Paul Pelliot, Choix de documents tibétains, conservés à la Bibliothèque Nationale, complété par quelques manuscrits de l'India Office et du British Museum, Tome 1er. Ariane MacDonald; Yoshiro Imaeda." "Journal of the American Oriental Society" 99.2: 393-394.
*Beckwith (1979): "The Introduction of Greek Medicine into Tibet in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries". "Journal of the American Oriental Society" 99.2: 297-313.
*Beckwith (1984): "Aspects of the Early History of the Central Asian Guard Corps in Islam". "Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi", Vol. 4, l984, 29-43.
*Beckwith (1984): "The Plan of the City of Peace: Central Asian Iranian Factors in Early ‘Abbâsid Design." Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 38: 128-147.
*Beckwith (1987): The Tibetans in the Ordos and North China: Considerations on the Role of the Tibetan Empire in World History. In: C.I. Beckwith, ed., "Silver on Lapis." Bloomington: Tibet Society, 1987, 3-11.
*Beckwith (1991): "The Impact of the Horse and Silk Trade on the Economies of T'ang China and the Uighur Empire: On the Importance of International Commerce in the Early Middle Ages". "Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient", Vol. 34, 1991, 183-198.
*Beckwith (1993): "The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia: A History of the Struggle for Great Power among Tibetans, Turks, Arabs, and Chinese during the Early Middle Ages". Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. ISBN 0-691-05494-0. First paperback edition, with a new afterword, 1993. ISBN 0-691-02469-3
*Beckwith (1994). "Tibetan language reform: History and future." "Language reform: History and future." Ed by I. Fodor and C. Hagege. Vol. VI. Hamburg: Helmut Buske: 73–84.
*Beckwith (1996): "The Morphological Argument for the Existence of Sino-Tibetan". "Pan-Asiatic Linguistics: Proceeings of the Fourth International Symposium on Languages and Linguistics, January 8th-10th, 1996. vol 3. Bangkok: Institute of Language and Culture for Rural Development Mahidol University at Salaya: 812-826.
*Beckwith (1998): "Noun Specification and Classification in Uzbek." "Anthropological Linguistics" 40.1: 124-140.
*Beckwith (2002): "Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages. PIATS 2000: Proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies" Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 90-04-12424-1
*Beckwith (2005): "On the Chinese Names for Tibet, Tabghatch, and the Turks." "Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi", 14: 5-20.
*Beckwith (2006): "Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages II". Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 90-04-15014-5
*Beckwith (2006). “The Sonority Sequencing Principle and Old Tibetan Syllable Margins.” In: "Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages II". Leiden: Brill, 45-57.
*Beckwith (2006). "Methodological Observations on Some Recent Studies of the Early Ethnolinguistic History of Korea and Vicinity." "Altai Hakpo" 2006, 16: 199-234.
*Beckwith (2006). "The Ethnolinguistic History of the Early Korean Peninsula Region: Japanese-Koguryoic and Other Languages in the Koguryo, Paekche, and Silla Kingdoms." "Journal of Inner and East Asian Studies", 2006, Vol. 2-2: 34-64.
*Beckwith (2007): "Koguryo, the Language of Japan's Continental Relatives: An Introduction to the Historical-Comparative Study of the Japanese-Koguryoic Languages, with a Preliminary Description of Archaic Northeastern Middle Chinese." Brill Academic Publishers, 2004. ISBN 90-04-13949-4. Second edition, 2007. ISBN 90-04-16025-5
*Beckwith (2007) "On the Proto-Indo-European Obstruent System." "Historische Sprachforschung" 2007, 120: 1-19.
*Beckwith (2007): "Phoronyms: Classifiers, Class Nouns, and the Pseudopartitive Construction". New York: Peter Lang Publishing.

See also

* Goguryeo language

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