Dr Yongxian Luo
Chinese Studies
Room 227
Sidney Myer Asia Centre
Building 158, Parkville Campus
The University of Melbourne
T:+61 3 8344 4282
F:+61 3 9349 4870
E: yongxian@unimelb.edu.au
Background
Yongxian Luo has an MA and a PhD in linguistics from the Australian National University. Before coming to Australia, he was a lecturer at Guangxi Normal University in China where he received a BA and a Graduate Diploma in English. He taught Chinese at the Australian National University for a number of years before taking up his position at the University of Melbourne.
Research Interests
Yongxian's research interests are semantics, lexicography, areal linguistics, Southeast Asian linguistics, Tai linguistics and Sino-Tibetan linguistics. He is a specialist in Tai languages and many other non-Han languages in south China.
His research publications have focused on the historical connection between Chinese and Tai languages. He is currently working with researchers in China documenting Buyang, a lesser-known language spoken in southwest China, as part of a major research project, Tai, Sino-Tai: the nature of Historical Relationship, funded by the Australian Research Council. He has also done work on grammatical descriptions of non-Han languages in south and southwest China. In addition, he has research links with a number of leading research institutions in China.
Research Interests
- Historical comparative Tai linguistics
- Sino-Tibetan linguistics, especially Chinese-Tai connection
- Historical Chinese linguistics
- Southeast Asian linguistics
- Semantics
- Lexicography