Chao Sun
Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and, by courtesy, of Linguistics
Academic Appointments
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Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
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Professor (By courtesy), Linguistics
Administrative Appointments
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Coordinator, Chinese program (1991 - Present)
Program Affiliations
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Center for East Asian Studies
Professional Education
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BA, East China Normal University, English Language and Literature (1974)
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MA, University of Oregon, Linguistics (1984)
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Ph.D., Cornell University, Linguistics (1988)
Current Research and Scholarly Interests
My primary research interest is in Chinese linguistics studying how linguistic forms and meanings vary systematically in different socio-cultural contexts in modern Chinese languages. My other works concern with morphosyntactic changes in the history of Chinese and pedagogical grammar in teaching Chinese as Second Language.
2024-25 Courses
- Beginning Classical Chinese, First Quarter
CHINA 105, CHINA 205 (Aut) - Beginning Classical Chinese, Second Quarter
CHINA 106, CHINA 206 (Win) - Seminar in Chinese Syntax
CHINA 391 (Spr) - The Structure of Modern Chinese
CHINA 191, CHINA 291 (Spr) -
Independent Studies (6)
- Graduate Directed Reading
EASTASN 300 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Individual Studies in East Asian Languages and Cultures (Graduate)
EALC 200 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Individual Studies in East Asian Languages and Cultures (Undergraduate)
EALC 199 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Master's Thesis or Qualifying Paper
EALC 299 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Senior Research (Capstone Essay)
EALC 198C (Aut, Win, Spr) - Senior Research (Honors Thesis)
EALC 198H (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Graduate Directed Reading
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Prior Year Courses
2022-23 Courses
- Beginning Classical Chinese, First Quarter
CHINA 105, CHINA 205 (Aut) - Beginning Classical Chinese, Second Quarter
CHINA 106, CHINA 206 (Win) - Seminar in Chinese Syntax
CHINA 391 (Win) - The Structure of Modern Chinese
CHINA 191, CHINA 291 (Spr)
2021-22 Courses
- Beginning Classical Chinese, First Quarter
CHINA 105, CHINA 205 (Aut) - Beginning Classical Chinese, Second Quarter
CHINA 106, CHINA 206 (Win) - Research in Chinese Linguistics
CHINA 190, CHINA 290 (Aut) - The Structure of Modern Chinese
CHINA 191, CHINA 291 (Spr)
- Beginning Classical Chinese, First Quarter
All Publications
- The Oxford Handbook on Chinese Linguistics edited by Wang, W. S., Sun, C. Oxford University Press. 2015
- Chinese: A linguistic introduction Cambridge University Press. 2006
- Wor Order Change and Grammaticalization in the History of Chinese Stanford University Press. 1996
- The Uses of De 的 as a noun phrase marker Oxford Handbook on Chinese Linguistics Oxford University Press. 2015: 326–78
- Introduction Oxford Handbook on Chinese Linguistics 2015: 19–33
- The Grammaticalization of the BA construction: Cause and Effect in a Case of Specialization Oxford Handbook on Chinese Linguistics2015 2015: 429–44
- The pragmatics of the Chinese marker DE: WO de BABA versus WO BABA Chinese Language and Discourse 2014; 5 (1): 7-24
- Grammar for Chinese as a Second Language Journal of International Chinese Teaching and Research 2014: 43-47
- Aspectual marker: Issue of ZHE grammaticalization in the history of Chinese and Wu dialects Journal of Chinese Linguistics 2013; 392-417: 392-417
- Aspectual classification of Mandarin Chinese verbs: A perspective of scale structure Language and Linguistics 2013; 14 (4): 663-700
- A copula analysis of SHI in the Chinese cleft construction Language and Linguistics 2013; 14 (4): 755-89