Education:
Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Michigan, 1978.
M.A. in Spanish, Linguistics, University of Michigan, 1972.
B.A. in Linguistics, Barnard College, Columbia University, 1970.
Course Offerings:
CHIN 101-102 - Elementary Chinese I & II
CHIN 201-202 - Intermediate Chinese I & II
CHIN 255 - Chinese Culture Through the Camera's Eye
Primary Research Interests:
Chinese syntax and semantics
Chinese pedagogy
Recent Publications:
Publications:
Books
Routledge Course in Mandarin Chinese , coauthored with Baozhang He, Pei-chia Chen, and Meng Yeh. London and New York: Routledge Press (Volume I: To appear 2010; Volume II: 2011).
Chinese Demystified. New York: McGraw Hill. (to appear 2010)
The Lady in the Painting, story, textbook, and interactive CD-ROM. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008
Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar, coauthored with Ma Jing-heng Sheng. London and New York: Routledge Press, 2006.
Workbook for Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar, coauthored with Ma Jing-heng Sheng and Baozhang He. London and New York: Routledge Press,2006.
Outline of Chinese Grammar: Schaum’s Outline Series. New York: McGraw Hill, 2004
Traditional Chinese Tales: A Course in Intermediate Chinese, stories, textbook, interactive CD-ROM. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
Selected Articles
2008. Perfective le and Verb-Object Strings in Mandarin. co-authored with Baozhang He. Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association. 43.2.47-76.
2002. Aspectual Category Shift in Mandarin Chinese, Journal of Chinese Linguistics 30.2.343-369.
1998. Cognate Objects and the Realization of Thematic Structures in Mandarin Chinese, in Jerome Packard, ed., New Approaches to Chinese Word Formation, pp. 329-346. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
1997. Language and Law: Sources of Systematic Vagueness and Ambiguous Authority in Chinese Statutory Language. University of British Columbia Law Review Volume 31, Number 1, pp. 205-253. Co-authored with Lester Ross. A somewhat revised version of this paper appears in Turner et al., eds., The Rule of Law in China, Seattle: University of Washington Press. (2000).
1995. Temporal and Aspectual Reference in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 23.1.87-136.
Professional Activities:
Vice-President and President-Elect, Chinese Language Teachers Association, 2008-2010.
Advisory Board, CET Chinese Language Study Abroad Programs. |
