Academic Appointments

  • Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
  • Professor (By courtesy), Linguistics

Administrative Appointments

  • Coordinator, Chinese program (1991 - Present)

Program Affiliations

  • Center for East Asian Studies

Professional Education

  • BA, East China Normal University, English Language and Literature (1974)
  • MA, University of Oregon, Linguistics (1984)
  • Ph.D., Cornell University, Linguistics (1988)

Contact

Additional Info

  • Mail Code: 2000

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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

Stanford Advisees

All Publications

  • The Oxford Handbook on Chinese Linguistics edited by Wang, W. S., Sun, C. Oxford University Press. 2015
  • Chinese: A linguistic introduction Sun, C. Cambridge University Press. 2006
  • Wor Order Change and Grammaticalization in the History of Chinese Sun, C. Stanford University Press. 1996
  • The Uses of De 的 as a noun phrase marker Oxford Handbook on Chinese Linguistics Sun, C. Oxford University Press. 2015: 326–78
  • Introduction Oxford Handbook on Chinese Linguistics Wang, W., Sun, C. 2015: 19–33
  • The Grammaticalization of the BA construction: Cause and Effect in a Case of Specialization Oxford Handbook on Chinese Linguistics2015 Sun, C. 2015: 429–44
  • The pragmatics of the Chinese marker DE: WO de BABA versus WO BABA Chinese Language and Discourse Sun, C. 2014; 5 (1): 7-24
  • Grammar for Chinese as a Second Language Journal of International Chinese Teaching and Research Sun, C. 2014: 43-47
  • Aspectual marker: Issue of ZHE grammaticalization in the history of Chinese and Wu dialects Journal of Chinese Linguistics Long, G., Sun, C. 2013; 392-417: 392-417
  • Aspectual classification of Mandarin Chinese verbs: A perspective of scale structure Language and Linguistics Peck, J., Lin, J., Sun, C. 2013; 14 (4): 663-700
  • A copula analysis of SHI in the Chinese cleft construction Language and Linguistics Zhan, F., Sun, C. 2013; 14 (4): 755-89