Education
- B.A. Hons. English. University of Hong Kong.
- M.A. Linguistics (Department of Germanic Languages). University of Texas - Austin.
- Ph.D. Linguistics (Division of Linguistics). Ohio State
University.
Research & Teaching Fields - Chinese language & linguistics -- dialectology, grammar, phonology, areal linguistics, typology
Selected Publications
- Mandarin Syntactic Structures. Unicorn No. 8, Princeton University 1971; Chinese translation 1982; Japanese translation 1986.
- Studies in Yue Dialects 1: Phonology of Cantonese. Cambridge University Press, 1972.
- “Phonological distinctions among Old Chinese initials," Bulletin of the Chinese Language Society of Japan, No. 223 (1976), pp. 2-5.
- “Tone sandhi across Chinese dialects," Wang Li Memorial Volumes: English Volume (Chinese Language Society of Hong Kong ed. 1987), pp. 445-474.
- " Comparative Chinese Dialectal Grammar -- Handbook for Investigators. Paris: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale, 1993.
- Zhi in pre-Qin Chinese,”T'oung Pao LXXXIV (1998), pp. 239-292.
- “The attributive construction in the Book of Documents,”Studies in Chinese Linguistics (Institute of Chinese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong 2003) No. 15, pp. 1-8.
- “Two focus markers in the Zhongshan Bronze Inscriptions,”Meaning and Form: Pre-Modern Chinese Grammar (K. Takashima & Jiang Shaoyu eds., München, Germany: Lincom Europe, 2004), pp. 241-266.
Current Research Projects
- Issues in Chinese Dialectology: Taxonomy, Typology, Stratification and Areal Linguistics
- Typological study of the grammar of the Oracle Bone Inscriptions, pre-Qin Chinese and the modern Chinese dialects
- Structure of Chinese: Basic Grammar for the Students of Chinese
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| Courses Taught
- CHIN 411-412-413
4th Year Chinese Language
- CHIN 443
Structure of Chinese
- CHIN 540
Special Topics in Chinese Linguistics (e.g. Field Method, Structure of Cantonese and Taiwanese)
- CHIN 541
Seminar in Chinese Grammar (synchronic, diachronic)
- CHIN 544
Seminar in Chinese Dialectology (phonology, grammar)
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