Projects

Research outputs

Monographs

1. Beaudouin, M. and Honkasalo, S. Submitted. Rhotics, Rhoticity, and Transphonologization in Trans-Himalayan Historical Phonology: Reconstructing forward Tangut Grade II. Ms.

Journal papers

1. Beaudouin, M. Submitted. 法藏西夏文殘片的新研究 Fǎcáng xīxiàwén cánpiàn de xīn yánjiù [A new study of the Tangut fragments preserved in France]
2. Beaudouin, M. Submitted. Systemic convergence in language subgrouping: A response to Lai Yunfan and Zhang Shuya
3. Beaudouin, M. Submitted. Grade 2 et premier shè (-u) en tangoute
4. Honkasalo, S., Gates, J. and Beaudouin, M. 2025. Pre-initials and their development in Horpa and Tangut. Cahiers de linguistique Asie Orientale
5. Beaudouin, M. 2025. The Tangut verbal template from a cross-West Gyalrongic perspective. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
6. Beaudouin, M. 2024. Non-past and past verb stems in Tangut. Language and Linguistics 26(1) 1-21
7. Beaudouin, M. 2023. Tangut and Horpa languages: Some morphosyntactic shared features. Language and Linguistics 24(4) 611-673
8. Beaudouin, M. 2022. Tangut verb agreement: Optional or not? Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 45(1) 93-109
9. Beaudouin, M. 2021. Les cas locatifs du tangoute: entre continuums et bipartitions. Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris 116(1) 327-346

Papers in edited volumes

1. Beaudouin, M. 2025. The paths to rhotacization in Tangut, with new evidence from Qiangic. In Evans, Jonathan (ed.). New Discoveries in Tibeto-Burman Linguistics: Honoring the Legacy of Academician Jackson T.-S. Sun. Language and Linguistics Monograph Series 69. 143-184
2. Beaudouin, M. 2023. On locative 𗅁 .u² and 𘂤 =kha¹. In Kobziev A.I., Rudenko N.V., and Dmitriev S.V. (eds.) Тангутская и китайская филология. К юбилею М.В. Софронова [Tangut and Chinese Philology. On the occasion of M.V. Sofronov’s anniversary] Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 145-157

Book reviews

1. Beaudouin, M. 2023. Neither a manual nor a grammar: A first introduction to Tangut Studies. Review of Shi Jinbo (2020), Tangut Language and Manuscripts: an Introduction. Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 52(2) 215-222

Manuscripts

• Beaudouin, M. 2021. Tangut directional preverbs: a new system.

Databases

• Beaudouin, M. 2026. The Digital Wenhai: A Unicode-Compliant Dataset of Tangut Linguistics and Philology’s Backbone. Version 1.0: Phonology. App here.
• Beaudouin, M., Sagart, L. and Baxter W. 2021. OC onsets in the Baxter-Sagart 1.01 system: examples with corresponding forms in Proto-Min, Vietnamese, and Hmong-Mien.

Theses and dissertations

• Beaudouin, M. 2023. “Grammaire du tangoute. Phonologie et morphologie.” Paris: Inalco PhD Dissertation (813 pp.)
• Beaudouin, M. 2021. “Didactique des occlusives voisées pour un public sinophone.” Paris: Sorbonne Nouvelle Master Thesis (135 pp.)
• Beaudouin, M. 2018. “Etude du verbe tangoute dans le Djij¹ bo¹ 𗴮𘊳.” Paris: Inalco Master Thesis (286 pp.)
• Beaudouin, M. 2017. “Etude philologique et phonologique du Tāng chǔ yú Tāng qiū 湯處於湯丘.” Paris: EPHE Master Thesis (117 pp.)
• Beaudouin, M. 2016. “Reconstruction du chinois archaïque : sources, méthodes, emprunts, stratification.” Paris: Inalco Master Thesis (76 pp.)

Selected talks

• 2025 (09/04). "Reconstructing forward an attested language via the comparative method: Tangut and Proto-Horpa." International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics 58. Bern: University of Bern
• 2025 (07/09). "Évidentialité et aspect en tangoute : identification, relation, comparaison." Journées de Linguistique Asie Orientale 38. Aubervilliers: Campus Condorcet
• 2025 (05/23). "Reassessing Northwest Chinese evidence in Tangut phonology." Tangut and Qiangic in situ. Paris: Institute for Advanced Studies
• 2025 (03/14). "What can the modern linguistic study of Tangut bring to our understanding of Tangut texts?" Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference 2025 (Panel: New Developments in Tangut Studies: Reinvigorating an Inner Asian Epitome). Ohio, Columbus: Columbus Convention Center
• 2024 (10/07). "The languages of Marco Polo’s Journey on the Silk Roads : Speakers, Structures, Synergies". Florence: Associazione Culturale Il Palmerino
• 2024 (09/12). "Methods of Proof in Cognacy Assessment." Congrès international des linguistes 21 (Section 1: Historical Linguistics). Poznań: Adam Mickiewicz University
• 2024 (09/12). "Diachrony in Grammar Writing." Congrès international des linguistes 21 (Section 13: Grammar Writing, Documentation and Data Collection). Poznań: Adam Mickiewicz University
• 2024 (04/20). "The irrealis category in Tangut and West Gyalrongic." チベット＝ビルマ言語学研究会第61回 [61st Conference of the Japanese Society for Research in Tibetan-Burmese Linguistics]. Online
• 2023 (10/10). "Proto-Horpic and the classification of Tangut." International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics 56. Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University (with Sami Honkasalo)
• 2023 (09/04). "The role of the Dharanis in Tangut phonetic reconstruction." Himalayan Languages Symposium 26. Paris: Inalco’s Maison de la recherche
• 2023 (06/14). "Person ambiguity in Tangut: Synchronic strategies and diachronic resolutions." LinUD’s 2nd International Conference in Linguistics and Digital Humanities. Florence: Università degli Studi
• 2023 (02/11). 龔煌城「第三類動詞」作為編碼過去/非過去時對立的動詞 Gong Hwang-cherng [Gong Hwang-cherng’s “third class of verbs” as encoding a past/non-past opposition]. Cambridge: Harvard University and Beijing: Renmin University (online)
• 2022 (11/29). "Research perspectives on the manuscript fragments of the Pelliot collection." Autour de l’archive : productions, parcours et pratiques sociales. Balkans, Moyen-Orient, Asie centrale — Septième journée doctorale du CETOBaC. Aubervilliers: Campus Condorcet
• 2021 (02/03). "Tangut directional preverbs system: a new interpretation." Rencontres internationales de tangoutologie 2. Arras: Université d’Artois & Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
• 2020 (10/03). "A hypothesis regarding Tangut verb stem alternation in intransitive contexts." International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics 53. Denton: University of North Texas
• 2019 (11/28). "Quand la philologie rencontre le terrain : dialogique rétroactive de corpus et de méthodes." ColDoc 2019: Fondements empiriques de la linguistique : données de corpus, données expérimentales. Quelles données pour le linguiste ?. Nanterre: Université de Nanterre
• 2019 (06/28). "Une hypothèse sur la nature et l’origine du 'cislocatif' 𗌽 djɨ² en tangoute." Journées de Linguistique Asie Orientale 32. Paris: Inalco
• 2019 (04/25). 西夏語的等級性配列與正向構造 [Hierarchical alignment and direct in Tangut]. Taipei: Academia Sinica
• 2018 (11/23). "On the absence of agreement in the Tangut Verb." Rencontres internationales de tangoutologie 1. Arras: Université d’Artois & Paris: ENS Ulm