Education
- AB Mathematics. Harvard College, 1988.
- MA East Asian Languages. University of California - Berkeley, 1992.
- PhD Chinese Language. University of California - Berkeley, 1998.
Research & Teaching Fields - Chinese
language, historical phonology, Chinese dialectology,
Tibeto-Burman languages, comparative Sino-Tibetan
linguistics, Asian writing systems
Selected Publications
- Old Chinese Medials and their Sino-Tibetan Origins: A Comparative Study. Monograph series, Linguistics Institute, Academia Sinica (2010).
- "Preliminary remarks on the influence of linguistic typology on Asian sinography." SCRIPTA 1.1 (2009).
- "Reflections on the historical origin of the Northern Min softened initials." Language and Linguistics 10.1 (2009): 1-16.
- "What is Sino-Tibetan? Snapshot of a field and a language family in flux." Language and Linguistics Compass 2.3 (2008): 422–441.
- "Notes on Old Chinese bilabial dissimilation, with reference to yì 邑 ‘city’ and yōng 邕 ‘moat’." In Linguistic studies in Chinese and neighboring languages: Festschrift in honor of Professor Pang-Hsin Ting on his 70th birthday, ed. Dah-an Ho et al. Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica (2007): 1013-1033.
- "Methodological considerations in the application of Tibeto-Burman comparison to the reconstruction of Old Chinese." In Studies on Sino-Tibetan languages: papers in honor of Professor Hwang-cherng Gong on his seventieth birthday, ed. Ying-chin Lin et al. Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica (2004): 603-620.
- "The *-i-/*-ji- distinction in the Old Chinese reconstruction system of Li Fang-kuei." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 32.2 (2004):179-199.
- "Northern Min tone values and the reconstruction of 'softened
initials'." Language and Linguistics 4.1 (2003): 47-84.
- "Proto-Lolo-Burmese
velar clusters and the origin of Lisu palatal sibilants." Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman
Area 25.1 (2002): 95-112.
- "Rethinking
the medials of Old Chinese: Where are the r's?" Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 31.1 (2002): 3-32.
Current Research Projects - Comparative study
of the development of Sinographic (Chinese-character
based) writing systems in Asia.
- History of the Northern Min dialects of Fujian Province.
| | Courses Taught - Chinese
201-202-203
- Chinese 531-532-533
- Chinese 342/442
- Chinese 540
- Chinese 542
- Asian 211
- Asian 401
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