Li, Jen-i

Jen-i Li is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University. She received her PhD in linguistics from the University of Arizona. She is interested in lexical semantics and second language acquisition of semantic knowledge, with special focus on topics of tense, aspect, modality and verbal semantics. She is one of the 2016 winners of best paper award from ETA-ROC. Articles she writes appear in Concentric: Studies in Linguistics, Taiwan Journal of Chinese as a Second Language, etc.

Educational Background

PhD in Linguistics, University of Arizona

亞利桑納大學語言學博士

Dissertation Title

Preverbal NP positions in Mandarin Chinese

Research Expertise

Semantics (語意學)

Syntax (句法學)

Language Acquisition (語言習得)