Ting, Jen

Jen Ting is Professor of English and Linguistics at the Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Rochester in 1995. Her research interests revolve around syntactic theory, syntax and its interfaces as well as syntax of Modern Chinese and of Classical Chinese. Drawing on both cross-linguistic and experimental data, the particular research focus is on the syntactic theory of argument structure, phrase structure, head movement and A’-movement. She has published in internationally renowned journals such as Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Language and Linguistics, Linguistics, and The Linguistic Review as well as other well-known journals such as Concentric: Studies in Linguistics, Journal of Chinese Linguistics, and Taiwan Journal of Linguistics. Her publication achievements were recognized in 2010 and in 2011 by the National Taiwan Normal University with a grant from the National Science Council, Taiwan. Among various academic services she has offered, she served as an Editor-in-Chief for the THCI journal Concentric: Studies in Linguistics (issue 30:2, 2004; volume 38, 2012; volume 44, 2018), as an Executive Committee member of Linguistic Society of Taiwan (2010-2011), and as an Executive Committee member of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (2013-2015).

Educational Background

PhD in Linguistics, University of Rochester

羅徹斯特大學語言學博士

Dissertation Title

A Non-uniform Analysis of the Passive Construction in Mandarin Chinese

Research Expertise

Syntax