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Y.-H. Audrey Li

Expert in Mandarin Chinese linguistics
  • Professor of Linguistics, East Asian Languages and Cultures
  • USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
Office: (213) 740-3717
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Expertise

  • the linguistic properties of Chinese
  • language acquisition issues in bilingual communities (Chinese, English)
  • language pedagogy
  • Chinese as a foreign or second language

Languages

  • Mandarin
  • Taiwanese

Additional Information

  • Author of Order and Constituency in Mandarin Chinese (1990)
  • Co-author of Syntax of Scope (1993); Essays on the representational and derivational nature of grammar (2003); and Syntax of Chinese (2009)
  • Co-editor of New Horizons in Chinese Linguistics (1996) and Functional structure(s), form and interpretation (2003)