Zhuosi Luo

I am an Assistant Professor and Researcher at the National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education (中国外语与教育研究中心) & National Research Centre for State Language Capacity (国家语言能力发展研究中心) at Beijing Foreign Studies University (北京外国语大学).

My research concentrates on (morpho)syntax and semantics, their interfaces with each other, as well as with pragmatics and phonology. I also work on the interdisciplinary connections between linguistics and cognitive science. See more in Publications & Presentations.

The languages I study are mostly Asian, including Teochew (an understudied variety of Southern Min; 'living fossil of ancient Chinese'), Cantonese, Mandarin and Thai. I also enjoy insights from cross-linguistic comparisons with other language families.

I received a Ph.D. in Theoretical Linguistics and Cognitive Science from Georgetown University in 2024, where my Theoretical Linguistics advisors are Paul Portner & Ruth Kramer, and my Cognitive Science advisors are David Lightfoot (before retirement in 2021) & Elissa Newport & Bryce Huebner. I did my M.A. in Foreign Linguistics & Applied Linguistics (2019) and B.A. in Translation (2016) at China Foreign Affairs University (外交学院).

Email: zhuosiluo@bfsu.edu.cn

(Emails sent to my previous email zl308@georgetown.edu will very likely not reach me)

Office: Room#311, Guonei Building#3, West Campus

Office phone number: 010-88818377

How to pronounce my name: [ʈʂuosɻ̩ luo], written as 罗卓思 in Mandarin