Ronghong 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)
CURRICULUM VITAE
RELEVANT LINKS
- Bilibili channel for Construction Grammar group and other videos.
- YouTube channel "Linguistics Videos"
- WeChat Blog (公众号): WeChat ID: creation-of-meaning (意义创造论)
- 罗 仁地的一些英文文章的中文翻译 (Chinese translations of some of Randy's papers)