FASS Staff Profile

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR THAM SHIAO WEI
ASSOC PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT of CHINESE STUDIES

Appointment:
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Office:
AS8 05-31
Email:
chstsw@nus.edu.sg
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Homepage:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/chstsw/
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Brief Introduction

A. Education

2005 PhD, Stanford University

2000 MA, Stanford Universitiy

1996    B.A. Hons. (1st Class) (Linguistics); National University of Singapore (NUS).

1995    B.A. (Linguistics, Mass Communications), NUS.

B. Work Experience

2017-present    Associate Professor of Chinese Linguistics, Dept of Chinese Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore

2014-2017        Associate Professor and Chinese Language Program Director, Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Wellesley College

2007—2014     Assistant Professor, Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Wellesley College

2008—2009     Chinese Language Program Director, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Wellesley College.

2007                Test Review and Education Specialist, Proficiency and Standards Division, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC)

2004—2007     Assistant Professor of Chinese, Asian School I, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC).


Teaching Areas

Lexical semantics, introductory level Chinese linguistics, lexicology, potentially translation


Current Research

Encoding of accomplishment events in Mandarin and other languages

Methods of linguistic inquiry in foreign language vocabulary teaching

Language diversity among China's ethnic minorities


Research Interests

Lexical semantics (word meaning) and its implications for grammar, both within Chinese and across languages.

Methods of linguistic inquiry in foreign language pedagogy

Language diversity in the context of globalization


Publications

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

  • Tham (2015) Resultative verb compounds in Modern Standard Chinese. In Sun, C. and Wang, W. S.-Y. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

     

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

  • Tham 2013 Change of state verbs and result state adjectives in Mandarin.  Journal of Linguistics, 49(3): 647-701.
  • Beavers, Levin, and Tham 2010 The typology of motion events revisited.  Journal of Linguistics 46(3), 331-377.
  • Tham (2008) The semantic category of the subject NP in Mandarin specificational copular sentences.  Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 17:61-82.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

  • Tham (2016) Possession as non-verbal predication. In Faytak, Matthew, Kelsey Neely, Matthew Goss, Erin Donnelly, Nicholas Baier, Jevon Heath and John Merrill eds. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 302-316.
  • Tham (2013b) When motion and location yield direction: The case of Mandarin. In Cathcart, Chundra, I-Hsuan Chen, Greg Finley, Shinae Kang, Clare S. Sandy and Elise Stickles (eds.) Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 344-358.  Online at http://elanguage.net/journals/bls/article/view/3589/3485.
  • Tham (2012) Result in Mandarin verb compounds. In Guevara, Ana Aguilar, Anna Chernilovskaya, and Rick Nouwen (eds.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 16, 599-612. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.  Online at http://mitwpl.mit.edu/open/sub16/.
  • Tham (2006) The definiteness effect in English have sentences.  In Pascal Denis et al (eds.) Texas Linguistic Society 8 Proceedings, 137-149. University of Texas, Austin.

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