ronghong01Ronghong Qiang village, before the 2008 earthquake

Senior Research Associate

Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore




RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Sino-Tibetan linguistics
  • Linguistic typology
  • Historical linguistics (including grammaticalization and Sino-Tibetan reconstruction)
  • Functional, constructionist, and interactional approaches to communication and language emergence
  • Pragmatics (particularly relevance-based approaches) / human behavior
  • Philosophy (philosophy of language, epistemology)
  • Fieldwork on endangered languages / anthropological linguistics (Asian languages on which I have done fieldwork)

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