SERVICE TO THE LINGUISTIC COMMUNITY
- Fellow, Australian
Academy for the Humanities.
- Co- Editor, Journal of Sino-Tibetan
Linguistics (《汉藏语学报》), Commercial Press, Beijing.
- Associate Editor, Language and Linguistics (Institute of
Linguistics, Academia Sinica, and Sage Publications Ltd.).
- Member, Advisory Committee of the Institute
of Linguistics, Academia Sinica.
- Honorary Member,
Linguistic Society of the Philippines.
- Vice Chairman, International Association for Bilingual
Studies.
- Member, Advisory Board, Center
for the Study of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity (joint
centre of China Central Nationalities University / Minzu
Daxue, Beijing, and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of
Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen Germany).
- Member, Editorial Advisory Board, EL Publishing (Open Access
publishing on endangered languages) (http://www.elpublishing.org).
- Member, Editorial Board,
Chinese Language and Discourse, Benjamins.
- Member, Editorial Board, Cultural Diversity in China,
de Gruyter, since Jan 2014, when it was founded
- Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Open Linguistics (Open
Access journal), De Gruyter Open (http://degruyteropen.com/).
- Member, International Advisory Board of
Diachronica:
International Journal for Historical Linguistics.
- Member, Editorial Board, Australian
Journal of Linguistics.
- Member, Editorial Board,
Researching and Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
(Equinox), since July 2013.
- Member, Editorial Board,
Journal of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Tibetology
(Center of Foreign Tibetology,
Shaanxi Normal University).
- Member, Board of Editorial Consultants,
Philippine
Journal of Linguistics (journal of the Linguistic Society of the
Philippines).
- Member, International Editorial Board of
Transactions
of the Philological Society.
- Member, Editorial Board of
Minzu Yuwen (《民族语 文》)(Nationality
Languages) (Institute of Ethnology and
Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences).
- Member, Advisory Board, The Journal of Modern
Languages (Faculty of Language and Linguistics,
University of Malaya).
- Member, Editorial Board, Macrolinguistics (New York: The Learned
Press).
- Member, Editorial Board, Nankai Yuyanxue Kan (《南开语言学刊》) (Linguistics Journal of Nankai
University)
- Member, Advisory Board, Chinese Studies Review (The Australian
Tertiary Chinese
Teachers Association, Melbourne, Australia)
- Creator and Moderator of the Tibeto-Burman Linguistics
Listserv (<tibeto-burman-linguistics@
LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>), a networking avenue for scholars
working on Tibeto-Burman languages and cultures, 2005-present.
- Creator and Webmaster for The Tibeto-Burman Domain (Tibeto-Burman.net), a
web site for the dissemination of information and resources
related to the study of Tibeto-Burman languages and cultures,
2005-present.
- Consulting Editor,
Studies in Language (1997-2014).
- Member, Review Panel of the Endangered
Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) funded by
Arcadia (previously known as the Lisbet Rausing Charitable
Fund), 2010-2012.
- Editor,
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 2005-2012.
- President, Australian
Linguistic Society, 2007-2009.
- Vice President, Australian
Linguistics Society, 2005-2007.
- Cheung Kong Scholar (Adjunct Chair Professor),Central University of
Nationalities, Beijing, China, 2005-2008.
- Member, Editorial Board of Language
and Linguistics （《语言与语言 学》）(Institute of
Linguistics, Academica Sinica), 2004-2009.
- Member, Academic Committee, Summer
Institute for Linguistics Australia, 2007-2009.
- Organizer and Host of the 10th RCLT International Workshop,
“The Shaping of Language: The Relationship between the
Structures of Languages and their Social, Cultural, Historical,
and Natural Environments”, La
Trobe University, 14-16, July 2010.
- Co-organizer, International Symposium: Sino-Tibetan
Comparative Studies in the 21st Century, Institute
of Linguistics, Academic Sinica, 24-25 June, 2010.
- Organizer and Host, ALS2009, the 40th annual meeting of the Australian
Linguistic Society, Melbourne, July 9-11, 2009.
- Co-organizer, 11th Congress of the
International Pragmatics Association, July 12-17, 2009,
Melbourne.
- Organizer and Host, Third Cross-Straits Workshop on
Tibeto-Burman Languages and Linguistics, City
University of Hong Kong, April 17-18, 2004.
- Member, Organizing Committee, First International Conference
on Modern Chinese Grammar for the New Millennium (The Seventh
Conference on Modern Chinese Grammar), City
University of Hong Kong, Feb. 1-3, 2001.
- Advisor for E-MELD: Electronic Metastructures for Endangered
Languages Data Project (2000-present) (Participated as Panel
Member in the Workshop on the Digitization of Endangered
Language Data: The Need for Standards, Santa Barbara, June
21-24, 2001, and the Workshop on Digitizing and Annotating Texts
and Field Recordings, East Lansing, July 11-13, 2003).
- Course Presenter, "Morphosyntactic Typology and
Grammaticalization in Sino-Tibetan", Fourth Australian
Linguistics Institute, The University of Queensland, July 6-16,
1998.
- External Course Examiner for the course "Semantics and
Pragmatics" at
The Open University of Hong Kong, 1998-2000.
- Served as External Examiner in two hiring searches for The Open University
of Hong Kong, 2000 (Assistant Professor hiring) and 2002
(Associate Professor hiring).
- Served as External Examiner for dissertations completed at The
Australian
National University, La
Trobe University, Stockholm
University, and The
University of Manitoba.
- Aside from those journals I am on the editorial boards of, I
have reviewed submissions to Language, Linguistic Typology, Cahiers de
linguistique asie orientale, Linguistics and Philosophy,
Lingua, Journal of the International Phonetic Association,
Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics, The Linguistic Review
and other publications and presses. I also have reviewed project
proposals submitted to the European Research Council, the
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, the Swiss
National Science Foundation, the Endangered Languages
Documentation Programme (SOAS), the Research Grants Council of
HK, the National Science Foundation (USA), the Austrian Science
Foundation (FWF), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada (SSHRC), and the Australian Research Council.
I am also frequently asked to evaluate other linguists for
promotion and tenure.