Claudia Ross, Ph.D.

Professor-Chinese Language, Linguistics, and Culture

 

Education:

Ph.D., The University of Michigan, 1978

M.A., The University of Michigan, 1973

B.A., Barnard College, Columbia University, 1971

 

Professor Ross is the Coordinator of the Chinese Section and an Asian Studies faculty member. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA) and has twice served as President of CLTA. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the CET Chinese Program, and she has served as resident director of the program.

 

Primary Research Interests:

Linguistics: Lexical and semantic structure

Chinese language pedagogy

 

Recent Publications:

2006. Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar. co-authored with Jing-heng Sheng Ma. London: Routledge Press.

2006. Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar Workbook. co-authored with Jing-heng Sheng Ma and Baozhang He. London: Routledge Press.

2004. Outline of Chinese Grammar. Schaum's Outlines Series. New York: McGraw-Hill.

 

2001. Traditional Chinese Tales: A Course in Intermediate Chinese. book and CD-ROM published Far Eastern Publications.

 

2002. Aspectual Category Shift in Mandarin Chinese, Journal of Chinese Linguistics 30.2.343-369.

 

2001. Evaluating Chinese Textbooks, Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers’ Association 36.2.1-22.

 

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).

 

1997. The Framework for Post-Basic Chinese. Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association Volume 32: 3, pp. 51-56.

 

1995. Temporal and Aspectual Reference in Mandarin Chinese. Journal

of Chinese Linguistics 23.1.87-136.

 

 Forthcoming Publications:

The Lady in the Painting, story, textbook, and interactive CD-ROM. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Contact Information:

P.O. Box 11A College of the Holy Cross One College Street Worcester, MA 01610-2395

Phone: (508) 793-3335  Fax: (508) 793-3708  E-Mail:cross@holycross.edu

 

My summer 2006 trip (with my daughter Jocelyn) to the Wolong Panda Preserve in Sichuan, China

 

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