Wu, Hsiao-hung

Hsiao-hung Iris Wu received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from MIT in 2008 and has been a member of the linguistics faculty at National Taiwan Normal University since then. Her research interests include syntactic theory, syntax-semantics interface and comparative syntax from both macro- and micro- parametric perspectives. Over the past years, she has explored a variety of syntactic issues in Isbukun Bunun and tried to make these issues to relate to the entire field by identifying the theoretical challenges they pose. She has also been working on the syntax and semantics of Mandarin, Taiwanese Southern Min and Hakka. She has published articles on ellipsis, relativization, verbal syntax, argument structure and generalized existential constructions.

Educational Background

Ph.D. in Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

麻省理工學院語言學博士

Dissertation Title

Generalized Inversion and Theory of Agree

Research Expertise

Formosan Linguistics (南島語言學)

Semantics (語意學)

Syntax (句法學)

Syntax & Semantics Interfaces (句法語意介面)