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Hello. I just got my Ph.D. in linguistics at UC Berkeley (May 2012!). I did my undergraduate work (in linguistics as well) at Stanford and also have studied at San Francisco State University and at National Taiwan University (台大).
My dissertation work is on Ersu/Tosu/Lizu (Lizu is also known as Lyuzu, Lǚsū, or Gura), a group of Tibeto-Burman languages spoken in southwestern Sichuan, and I have done fieldwork on the Mianning dialect of Lizu. I also work at The Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus Project (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
- tone and intonation
- sound change
Publications and Papers
Dissertation
- Proto-Ersuic - my dissertation, a reconstruction of the ancestor of Ersu/Tosu/Lizu. Includes lots of cool sound changes and interesting features of these languages.
Some unpublished papers...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. Superseded by Chapter 8 of my dissertation, but included here for reference.
last modified 2012.05.16