Education
- BA Hons. English. University of Hong Kong.
- MA Linguistics (Department of Germanic Languages). University of Texas - Austin.
- PhD Linguistics (Division of Linguistics). Ohio State
University.
Research & Teaching Fields - Chinese language & linguistics: dialectology, grammar, phonology, areal linguistics, typology
Selected Publications
- “Two focus markers in the Zhongshan Bronze Inscriptions.” In Meaning and Form: Pre-Modern Chinese Grammar, ed. K. Takashima and Jiang Shaoyu.München, Germany: Lincom Europe, 2004, 241-266.
- “The attributive construction in the Book of Documents.” Studies in Chinese Linguistics No. 15 (2003): 1-8.
- "Zhi in pre-Qin Chinese." T'oung Pao LXXXIV (1998): 239-292.
- Comparative Chinese Dialectal Grammar -- Handbook for Investigators. Paris: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale, 1993.
- “Tone sandhi across Chinese dialects." In Wang Li Memorial Volumes: English Volume, ed. by the Chinese Language Society of Hong Kong, 1987, 445-474.
- “Phonological distinctions among Old Chinese initials," Bulletin of the Chinese Language Society of Japan, No. 223 (1976): 2-5.
- Studies in Yue Dialects 1: Phonology of Cantonese. Cambridge University Press, 1972.
- "Mandarin Syntactic Structures." Unicorn No. 8. Princeton University, 1971. Chinese translation 1982. Japanese translation 1986.
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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