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).（Also taughta course at the latter)
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.