Introduction
Hello. I am a fourth year graduate student in linguistics at UC Berkeley. I did my undergraduate work (in linguistics as well) at Stanford. I've also spent some time at San Francisco State and as an exchange student at National Taiwan University (台大).
I am currently working on the Mianning dialect of Lizu, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in southwestern Sichuan. I also work at the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT for short).
Interests
- phonetics and phonology
- historical linguistics
- Sino-Tibetan reconstruction
- Chinese dialects, especially Cantonese (粵) dialects, Toisan 台山/Szeyap 四邑 (check out a list of Szeyap references compiled by Aaron Lee and me)
- Tibeto-Burman languages, especially Qiangic and Kuki-Chin
- tone and intonation
- sound change
Papers
Some unpublished papers...
- The Phonology of Yánchéng - a description of 鹽城話, a dialect of Eastern Mandarin
- Relative clauses and nominal modifiers in Cantonese - Cantonese has at least two ways to make relative clauses! This paper gives an overview of the phenomena and explores different analyses.
- Comparative Phonology of Picurís and Taos - a micro-comparison of two Northern Tiwa languages
- More Picuris materials: A Picurís Lexicon and Picurís Children's Stories With Interlinear Glosses. These are in rough draft form, but perhaps they will be useful to others out there.
- Lizu and Proto-Tibeto-Burman - working out the reflexes of PTB rhymes and initials in three dialects of Lizu and one of Ersu
last modified 2009.03.23