Education - A.B. Mathematics. Harvard College. 1988
- M.A. East Asian Languages. University of California - Berkeley. 1992
- Ph.D. 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
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Old Chinese medials and their Sino-Tibetan origins: a comparative study. Monograph series, Linguistics Institute, Academia Sinica. (To appear in late 2009)
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"Preliminary remarks on the influence of linguistic typology on Asian sinography." SCRIPTA 1.1 (2009).
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"Reflections on the historical origin of the Northern Min softened initials." Language and Linguistics 10.1: 1-16 (2009).
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"What is Sino-Tibetan? Snapshot of a field and a language family in flux." Language and Linguistics Compass 2.3: 422–441 (2008).
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"Notes on Old Chinese bilabial dissimilation, with reference to yì 邑 ‘city’ and yōng 邕 ‘moat’." Linguistic studies in Chinese and neighboring languages: Festschrift in honor of Professor Pang-Hsin Ting on his 70th birthday, ed. by Dah-an Ho et al.. Pp. 1013-1033. Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica (2007).
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"Methodological considerations in the application of Tibeto-Burman comparison to the reconstruction of Old Chinese." Studies on Sino-Tibetan languages: papers in honor of Professor Hwang-cherng Gong on his seventieth birthday, ed. by Ying-chin Lin et al.. Pp. 603-620. Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica (2004).
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"The *-i-/*-ji- distinction in the Old Chinese reconstruction system of Li Fang-kuei." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 32.2:179-199 (2004).
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"Northern Min tone values and the reconstruction of 'softened
initials'." Language and Linguistics 4.1: 47-84 (2003).
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"Proto-Lolo-Burmese
velar clusters and the origin of Lisu palatal sibilants." Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman
Area 25.1: 95-112 (2002).
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"Rethinking
the medials of Old Chinese: Where are the r's?" Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 31.1: 3-32 (2002).
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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