Curriculum Vitae
Dr Yongxian LuoProfessional AddressAsia Institute Tel: +61 3 8344 4282 |
Degrees, Qualifications
| 1996 | Ph.D., Australian National University, Australian Capital Territory, Australia |
| 1991 | M.A., Australian National University, Australian Capital Territory, Australia |
| 1987 | Grad.Dip., Guangxi Teachers University, China |
| 1982 | B.A., Guangxi Teachers College, China |
Major Honours, Grants, Awards, Prizes
- Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange - Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant (1995-1998). Principal Investigator. Project Title: Tai Languages in South China: A Historical Comparative Study (Project Director: Dr Anthony V.N. Diller)
- The Crawford Prize for Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis, Australian National University, Australian Capital Territory, Australia (1997)
- (With Dr Ilia Pejros) Grant from the Max Planck Institute For Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig). Role: Regional Coordinator (China) for the Tai-Kadai and Mon-Khmer Section. Project Title: Intercontinental Dictionary Series (1999/2000) (Project Director: Professor Bernard Comrie)
- ARC Large Grant for Discovery Project: Tai, Sino-Tai: The Nature of Historical Relationships (2002-2004)
- (with Prof. Li, Jinfang, Central University of Nationalities, Beijing) A research grant from the Endangered Languages Documentation Project, SOAS, University of London. Project Title: Documentations of Two Gelao Varieties: Zou Lei and A Hou, Southwest China
Committees, Memberships
- Member of Australian Linguistic Society
Career, Principal Offices, Principal Positions Held
| Jan 2002 - | Senior Lecturer, Asia Institute |
| Jan 2002 - Dec 2004 | Chair, Research and Graduate Studies Committee, Melbourne Institute of Asian Languages and Societies, University of Melbourne |
| Mar 1998 - Dec 2001 | Lecturer, Asia Institute |
| Jul 1996 - Dec 1997 | Guest lecturer, China and Korean Centre, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, Australian Capital Territory, Australia |
| 1995 - 1998 | Postdoctoral fellow, Southeast Asian Centre/National Thai Studies Centre, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, Australian Capital Territory, Australia (funded by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange) |
| May 1995 | Reader for recording of examination materials for assessing English-Chinese/Chinese English translators and interpreters, NAATI Head Office, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia |
| 1990 - 1995 | Research assistant to Dr A. Diller, National Asian Languages Project/National Thai Studies Centre, Australian National University, Australian Capital Territory, Australia |
| 1988 - 1993 | Research assistant to Drs B. Terwiel, C. Eades and A. Diller, responsible for translating Chinese materials into English for the research project: Southeast Asian Calendrical Systems (funded by Australian Research Council), Australian National University, Australian Capital Territory, Australia |
| 1988 - 1990 | Tutor in Chinese, China Centre, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, Australian Capital Territory, Australia |
| 1983 - 1987 | Lecturer, Guangxi Teachers University, China |
| 1982 - 1983 | Tutor in Chinese for American exchange students, Guangxi Teachers University. China |
| 1982 - 1984 | Tutor in English, Guangxi Teachers College, China |
Research Interests
- Historical comparative Tai linguistics
- Sino-Tibetan linguistics, especially Chinese-Tai connection
- Historical Chinese linguistics
- Southeast Asian linguistics
- Semantics
- Lexicography
Principal Publications
A: Sole-authored books
- The Subgroup Structure of the Tai Languages: A Historical-Comparative Study. Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monograph Series No. 12, Project on Linguistic Analysis, University of California, Berkeley, 1997, vi + 367 pp. (Revised version of the author's 1996 doctoral dissertation, Australian National University).
- A Dictionary of Dehong, Southwest China. Pacific Linguistics C145. Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1999, xxxviii + 307 pp.
B: Papers in refereed journals, book chaters
- Sino-Tai Words for ‘to Cut’. Book chapter in Studies in Tai and Southeast Asia Linguistics, edited by Jimmy Harris and Songsome Brusphat. Bangkok: Ekphimthai Ltd, 2007.
- (with Li Jinfang). Notes on Baha Buyang. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 29.1, 2006: 1-39.
- Sino-Tibetan Languages. Entry for The Routledge Encyclopedia of Linguistics, ed. By Philipp Strazny. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2005.
- A comparative study of sound correspondences between Chinese jing-zhuang group of initials and velar initials in Tai. Minzu Yuwen [Minority Languages of China] 6 (2004): 19-21.
- Review of Xing, Gongwan (1999): A Handbook of Comparative Sino-Tai. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 31.2 (2003): 362-369.
- The Hypothesis of a New Branch for the Tai Languages. Pp. 177-187 in Essays in Tai Linguistics, ed. by Kalaya Dingsabah and Arthur Abramson. Chulalongkorn University Press, 2001.
- Review of Chen, Baoya. 1996. Language Contact and Language Unions. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 28.1 (2000): 174-179.
- From 'Head' to 'Toe': Sino-Tai Lexical Correspondence in Body Part Terms". Journal of Chinese Linguistics28.1 (2000): 67-99.
- Review of Thomas John Hudak (ed.): William J Gedney's The Lue Language. Crossroads 13.2 (1999): 107-109.
- Paul K Benedict: In Memoriam. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 26.1 (1998): 173-178.
- Evidence for a Series of Sibilant Clusters in Tai and Sino-Tai Relationship. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 26.1 (1998): 71-125.
- Expanding the Proto Tai Lexicon. Mon-Khmer Studies 27 (Paul K Benedict Commemorative Volume) (1997): 271-298.
- Review of Li Jingzhong: Yuyan Yanbian lun [The Evolution of Language]. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 25.2 (1997): 337-340.
- Review of Thomas John Hudak (ed.): William J Gedney's Southwestern Tai Dialects and William J Gedney's Central Tai Dialects. Crossroads, 10.1 (1997): 157-161.
- Tonal irregularities in Tai Revisited. Mon-Khmer Studies, 25 (André-George Haudricourt Commemorative Volume) (1996): 69-102.
- Review of Thomas John Hudak (ed.): William J Gedney's The Saek Language. Crossroads 9 (1995): 99-101.
- Review of Thomas John Hudak (ed.): William J Gedney's The Tai Dialect of Lungming. Crossroads 8 (1993):155-7
C: In press
- In press (a). The Tai-Kadai Languages, ed. by Anthony V.N. Diller, Jerold A. Edmondson, and Luo Yongxian (eds.). (Routeledge Language Family Series) (Scheduled for publication by Routeledge/Curzon, 2007)
- In press. (b) Zhuang. Book chapter in Diller, Edmondson, and Luo (eds.). (Scheduled for publication by Routeledge/Curzon, 2007)
- In press. (c) Sino-Tai: Another Look. Book chapter in Diller, Edmondson and Luo (eds.).
- In press. (d) On the Tai evidence for the reconstruction of final *-l and *-r in Old Chinese. Article for Proceedings for the International Conference on Languages and Linguistics in East Asia. EastLing. Shanghai E-Institute of Linguistics and Comparative Linguistics, Shanghai: Shanghai Educational Press.
D: Translations
- An Outline Grammar of Mulao. English Translation of Wang, Jun and Zheng Guoqiao (1980) Mulaoyu Jianzhi. Canberra: Thai Regional Languages Project, National Thai Studies Centre, The Australian National University, 1993.