Wu, Jing-lan Joy

Jing-lan Joy Wu is Associate Professor at the Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics in 2006 from the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. Her research interests include functional syntax (in particular Role and Reference Grammar) and linguistic typology. She has devoted herself to the study of Formosan languages (especially Amis) from the functional-syntactic perspective since early 1990s. She has published academic papers in renowned journals such as Language and Linguistics and Concentric: Studies in Linguistics and two grammars based on different Amis dialects. In addition, she has been actively engaged in various projects related to the revitalization of Formosan languages. Her services to the field include referring for conferences and journals such as Language and Linguistics, Concentric: Studies in Linguistics, Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, Oceanic Linguistics, etc., and serving as one of the chief editors for Concentric: Studies in Linguistics (Volumes 35.1~36.2, and 40.1~40.2) and one of the main organizers for Thirteenth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (13-ICAL) in 2015.

Educational Background

Ph.D. in Linguistics, State University of New York at Buffalo

紐約州立大學水牛城分校語言學博士

Dissertation Title

Verb Classification, Case Marking, and Grammatical Relations in Amis

Research Expertise

Amis Syntax (阿美語句法學)

Cognitive Linguistics (認知語言學)

Formosan Linguistics (南島語言學)

Functional Syntax (功能句法學)

Typology (語言類型學)