Christopher I. Beckwith - Selected Publications

Selected 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): "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, 1984, 29-43.
• Beckwith, Christopher I (1983). “The Revolt of 755 in Tibet” Contributions on Tibetan Language, History, and Culture. Ernst Steinkellner and Helmut Tauscher eds. Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde; Heft 10. Wien: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien, Universität Wien, pp. 1–16. reprinted in: The History of Tibetan. ed. Alex Mckay. London: Routledge Curzon, 2003: 273-285.
• 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 (1984): 'Aspects of the Early History of the Central Asian Guard Corps in Islam.' Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi l984, Vol. 4:29-43. (Reprinted in C. Edmund Bosworth, ed., The Turks in the Early Islamic World. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007: 275-289.)
• 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 (1996): "The Morphological Argument for the Existence of Sino-Tibetan". Pan-Asiatic Linguistics: Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Languages and Linguistics, January 8-10, 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, Christopher (2002). "The Sino-Tibetan problem". Medieval Tibeto-Burman languages. Brill. pp. 113–158. ISBN 978-90-04-12424-0.
• Beckwith (2004): "Old Chinese." Encyclopedia of Linguistics Philipp Strazny, (ed.). New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 771-774.
• 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). “Old Tibetan and the dialects and periodization of Old Chinese.” In: Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages II. Leiden: Brill, 179-200..
• 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, and Gisaburo N. Kiyose (2006): 'The Silla Word for "Walled City" and the Ancestor of Modern Korean.' Arutaigo Kenkyu - Altaistic Studies 2006, Vol. 1: 1-10.
• 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. ISBN 1-4331-0139-4
• Beckwith (2007): "The Frankish Name of the King of the Turks." "Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi" 2006/7, 15: 5-11.
• Beckwith (2008). "An introduction to theoretical and methodological problems in the comparative-historical linguistics of Eastern-Eurasian languages." Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages III. Christopher Beckwith, ed. (Proceedings of the 11th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies.) Halle: International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies GmbH: 9-48.
• Beckwith (2008). "The Pai-lang songs: The earliest texts in a Tibeto-Burman language and their Late Old Chinese transcriptions." Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages III. Christopher Beckwith, ed. (Proceedings of the 11th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies.) Halle: International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies GmbH: 87-110.
• Beckwith (2008). "Old Chinese loans in Tibetan and the non-uniqueness of „Sino-Tibetan“." Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages III. Christopher Beckwith, ed. (Proceedings of the 11th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies.) Halle: International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies GmbH: 61-201.
• Beckwith, and Gisaburo N. Kiyose (2008): 'The Origin of the Old Japanese Twelve Animal Cycle.' Arutaigo kenkyû – Altaistic Studies 2008, Vol. 2: 1-18.
• Beckwith (2009): Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-13589-2.
• Beckwith (2010): 'Could There Be a Korean–Japanese Linguistic Relationship Theory? Science, the Data, and the Alternatives. A State-of-the-Field Article.' International Journal of Asian Studies 2010, Vol. 7, 2: 201-219.
• Beckwith (2010): 'Old Chinese Loanwords in Korean.' In: Sang-Oak Lee, ed., Contemporary Korean Linguistics: International Perspectives. Seoul: Thaehaksa, 2010: 1-22.
• Beckwith and Walter (2010). "On the Meaning of Old Tibetan rje-blon during the Tibetan Empire Period." Journal Asiatique 298.2: 535-548.
• Walter, Michael L. and Christopher I. Beckwith (2010). “The Dating and Interpretation of the Old Tibetan Inscriptions” Central Asiatic Journal 54.2: 291-319.
• Beckwith (2011). "Pyrrho’s Logic: A Reexamination of Aristocles’ Record of Timon’s Account." Elenchos 32: 287-327.
• Beckwith (2012). "On Zhangzhung and Bon." In: Henk Blezer, ed., Emerging Bon. Halle: IITBS GmbH, 164-184.
• Beckwith (2012). "On the Ethnolinguistic Position of Manchu and the Manchus within Central Eurasia and East Asia." Manzokushi kenkyū 10: 17-30. (Japanese translation: 中央ユ−ラシアと東アジア内での満州語と満州族の民族 言語学的位置について。満族史研究 10 (2012): 1-15.)