Drumroll please as we welcome the newest faculty member of the Department of Language Studies
at UTM 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
Lingzi Zhuang
Starting July 1st 2022 Zhuang will be joining as Assistant Professor Teaching Stream! Zhuang is currently finishing his PhD dissertation at Cornell University. He works on semantics, pragmatics and language change, with a focus on languages in the Himalayas and China!
Within semantics and pragmatics, he is interested in how languages express evidence, attitudes, and epistemic commitments, and in verbal aspect and nominal reference. He is also interested in semantic and syntactic change and has worked on topics in Sino-Tibetan historical linguistics!
Does his name ring a bell? Zhuang gave a lecture on "Definiteness in Chinese Nominals" at UTM in February 2022!
Check out his recent Student Spotlight from Cornell University Graduate School to learn more about him!
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