EDUCATION AND LANGUAGE ABILITIES
Education
- PhD in Linguistics, 1990, Department
of Linguistics , University of
California, Berkeley.
PhD Dissertation:
Grammatical relations in Chinese: Synchronic and diachronic
considerations.
Committee:
James A. Matisoff, Robert
D. Van Valin, Jr., co-chairs; Johanna
Nichols.
- M.A. in Linguistics, 1988, Department
of Linguistics , University of
California, Berkeley.
- Two years of graduate work in
Linguistics at Peking
University, September 1981 –
July 1983, Beijing, China.
- M.A. in Applied Linguistics
(TESOL), 1980, Department
of Linguistics , State
University of New York at Stony Brook.
- B.A. in Asian Studies,
1978, State
University of New York at Stony Brook.
- Also attended the 1987
(Stanford) and 1992 (UC Santa Cruz) Linguistic Society of
America Institutes, and the 1998 Australian Linguistics
Institute (University of Queensland, Brisbane).
Language Abilities
- Native speaker of New York English, familiar with other
varieties of US, Australian, Singapore, and Philippine English.
- Native-like fluency in Putonghua (Standard Mandarin Chinese),
conversational and linguistic knowledge of Cantonese, Hokkien
and Southwest Mandarin.
- Conversational and linguistic knowledge of Tagalog.
- Able to read linguistics articles in French and Japanese.
- Two years of Classical Tibetan training.