Research Areas & Projects
- Mandarin discourse and grammar
- o Core lexicon in Mandarin conversation;
- o An Emergent Grammar approach to linguistic structure in Chinese;
- o Lexical semantics as an emerging phenomenon;
- o Epistemic stances in Chinese discourse (project supported by the UCLA Academic Senate);
- Applied Linguistics: Language learning and teaching
- o Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (CALPER), a US Department of Education sponsored project for advanced language teaching. Two recent sub-projects:
- a) Spoken teaching materials based on natural conversation;
- b) Video recordings of natural intreaction for Chinese listening comprehension.
- o Heritage language corpora and and research. (See an edited volume in the Heritage Language Journal.
- o K-12 Chinese language education in conjunction with the UCLA Confucius Institute. (Visit the New York Times for some recent discussions.)
- Corpus linguistics
- o Co-Director (with Charles Meyer & John Du Bois) of the US component of the International Corpus of English (ICE) project;
- o The Lancaster-Los Angeles Spoken Chinese Corpus (more information here);
- o The UCLA Corpus of Written Chinese.
- English discourse and grammar
- o (With Charles Meyer) gapping in English discourse;
- o 'Absolutely' and the impact of frequency on meaning and structure (Journal of English Linguistics 35.1, 2007);
- o (With Richard Z. Xiao) a corpus-based sociolinguistic study of amplifiers in British English;
- o Formulaic expressions in English (paper presented at the Milwaukee Symposium on Formulaic Language, April 18-21, 2007);
- Digital humanities
- o Discourse analysis software tools: A Corpus Worker's Toolkit (ACWT);
- o Corpus linguistics forum: http://www.corpus4u.org/;
- o The Laozi (Dao De Jing) Web Project (supported by the Hong Kong University Grant Committee (UGC) and the UCLA Center for Digital Humanities);
Sea of Bamboo, Anji, Zhejiang
Summer 2010