- Professor of Chinese Language and Linguistics
- & Applied Linguistics and TESL
- Contact Info:
- University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
- Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
- 290 Royce Hall
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1540
- Tel: 310.206.6872; Fax: 310.825.8808
- Email: tao at humnet dot ucla dot edu
Research Areas...
- o Mandarin discourse and grammar
- o Applied Linguistics: Language learning and teaching
- o Corpus linguistics
- o English discourse and grammar
- o Language in society and language change
- o Digital humanities (more details here…)
Recent work...
- o A unified acccount of causaul clause sequences in Mandarin discourse
- o Core lexicon in Mandarin conversation
- o Review of Chinese Discourse Modality by Xu Jingning
- o Laozi and other bamboo and silk texts in early China
- o Chinese disposal constructions in discourse and history
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Summer 2008, Suzhou