Dr Wynn Chao
BA (NYCity), PhD (Mass)
Overview
Department of Linguistics
Lecturer in Linguistics
Centre of Chinese Studies
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
- Name:
- Dr Wynn Chao
- Email address:
- wc@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4648
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 374
- Office Hours:
- Tuesdays 13:00 - 15:00
Teaching
Courses Taught
- Language and Meaning I
- Meaning and Interpretation
- Topics in Lexical Semantics
- Topics in Lexical Semantics (MA)
- Topics in the Structure of Chinese
- Topics in the Structure of Chinese (Masters)
In 2008/9, I am teaching Topics in the Structure of Chinese (Terms 1 and 2), Language and Meaning (Term 1) and Issues in Semantics (Term 2).
Research
The syntax-semantics interface; language universals and typology; first and second language acquisition; language impairmentExpertise
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Available for
- TV
- Radio
- Press
- Briefings
Regional Expertise
- East Asia
Country Expertise
Languages
- Portuguese
Publications
Book Chapters
Chao, Wynn and Bach, Emmon (2012) 'Semantic types across languages.' In: Maienborn, Claudia and Heusinger, Klaus von and Portner, Paul, (eds.), Semantics - An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning, vol 3. de Gruyter Mouton. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 33.3) (In Press)
Chao, Wynn and Bach, Emmon (2012) 'The Metaphysics of Natural Language(s).' In: Kempson, Ruth and Fernando, Tim and Asher, Nicholas, (eds.), Philosophy of Linguistics, 14. Amsterdam: North Holland, Elsevier, pp. 175-196. (Handbook of the Philosophy of Science)
Chao, Wynn (2010) 'Language Universals from a Semantic Perspective.' In: Maienborn, Claudia and Heusinger, Klaus von and Portner, Paul, (eds.), Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Bach , Emmon and Chao, Wynn (2009) 'Semantic universals and typology.' In: Collins, Chris and Christiansen, Morten and Edelman, Shimon, (eds.), Language Universals. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Chao, Wynn and Bach, Emmon (2009) 'On Semantic Universals and Typology.' In: Collins, Chris and Christiansen, Morten and Edelman, Shimon, (eds.), Language Universals. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 152-173.
Chao, Wynn and Mui, Evelynne (1999) 'The Forms of Negation in Cantonese.' In: Sun, Chaofen, (ed.), Proceedings of the 10th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. University of Southern California:GSIL, pp. 98-115.
Articles
Chao, Wynn and Mui, Evelynne (2000) 'Clausal adverbs and clausal structures in Cantonese.' Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, vol. 29 (1) . pp. 3-39.
Chao, Wynn and Mui, Evelynne (1999) 'Adverbs in Cantonese and the Universal Base Hypothesis.' SOAS Working Papers and Linguistics, vol.9 . pp. 489-508.
Chao, Wynn and Cornillon, Jeanne (1995) 'Association with Focus and the ''Ne que'' construction in French.' SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics 5 . pp. 271-283.
Conference or Workshop Items
Chao, Wynn and Scott, Gary-John and Mui, Evelynne (2001) The Interpretation of Adjectives in Chinese. In: The North American Association of Chinese Linguistics 13 (NAACL-13), Irvine, California.
