FASS Staff Profile
PROFESSOR BAO ZHIMING, DIPLOMA, FUDAN; PHD, MIT
DIPLOMA, FUDAN; PHD, MIT
DEPARTMENT of ENGLISH, LINGUISTICS & THEATRE STUDIES
- Appointment:
- PROFESSOR
- Office:
- AS5/0520
- Email:
- ellbaozm@nus.edu.sg
- Tel:
- 65167833
- Fax:
- 67732981
- Homepage:
- http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/ellbaozm/
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Brief Introduction
I am a theoretical linguist working in the Department of English Language and Literature. I joined NUS in 1993. Currently I have two active research areas: contact linguistics and theoretical phonology.
Teaching Areas
I teach modules in English linguistics and in contact linguistics, at both undergraduate and graduate levels. My area of graduate supervision is broader, including Chinese linguistics and theoretical linguistics.
Current Research
- Contact linguistics -- theories of contact-induced linguistic change and variation
- Theoretical linguistics -- tone, accent, and stress
- Chinese antiquity -- linguistic structure of ancient Chinese and the expression of thought
Research Interests
In contact linguistics, I am interested in how a language acquires new grammatical features from the languages with which it comes into contact, and how social stigmatization affects the development of these new features. In phonology, I am exploring formal ways of capturing dialect diffusion.
Publications
OTHERS
- Four Recent Publications
- 2015. The Making of Vernacular Singapore English: System, transfer and filter. Cambridge University Press.
- 2015. The systemic nature of substratum transfer. In The Oxford Handbook of World Englishes, ed. by Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola and Devyani Sharma. Oxford University Press.
- 2014. Substratum transfer targets grammatical system. Journal of Linguistics 48(3).479-482.
- 2011. Chinese tone sandhi. In The Blackwell companion to phonology. 5 vols. Pp. xx-xx. Edited by Marc van Oostendorp, Colin Ewen, Elizabeth Hume, and Keren Rice. Malden, MA & Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
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