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Audrey Li

Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Linguistics

Contact Information
E-mail: audreyli@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-3717
Office: THH 356M

LINKS
Personal Website
USC Chinese Linguistics
USC Chinese Language
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Education
Ph.D. , University of Southern California
 

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History
Professor, University of Southern California, 01/01/2001-  
 

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests
Yen-hui Audrey Li, Ph.D. (University of Southern California); joint appointment with Linguistics. Audrey Li is interested in the structural properties of natural languages: how and why human languages are the way they are and how and why languages differ in the way they do. The theme of her works is that languages differ in a principled and systematic manner. Meaningful cross-linguistic comparison is based on in-depth investigation of individual languages. The topics of her research include the issues related to constituency and order at the sentential and nominal level, the interpretive mechanisms in universal grammar and the well-formedness conditions on the interpretation and spell-out of syntactic structures. The data have been mainly drawn from English and East Asian languages from a comparative perspective. Li is also quite interested in the issues regarding language acquisition and pedagogical implications. She directs the EALC Chinese language Program. Li’s important publications include the following books: The Syntax of Chinese (with James Huang and Yafei Li), 2009 Cambridge University Press, Essays on the representational and derivational nature of grammar: the diversity of wh-constructions (with Joseph Aoun) 2003, MIT Press. Functional Structure(s), Form and Interpretation, (ed. with Andrew Simpson) 2003, RoutledgeCurzon Press. New Horizons in Chinese Linguistics, 1996 by Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht (ed. with James Huang). Syntax of Scope, 1993. MIT Press (with J. Aoun), Order and Constituency in Mandarin Chinese, 1990, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
 

Research Keywords
syntax, Chinese language and linguistics
 

Research Specialties
Syntax, Chinese language and linguistics
 

Publications

Book
Huang, J., Li, Y. A., Li, Y. (2009). The Syntax of Chinese. Cambridge,: Cambridge University Press.
Simpson, A. A., Li, Y. (2003). Functional Structure(s), Form and Interpretation: Perspectives from Asian Languages. Routledge-Curzon.
Huang, J., Li, Y. (2003). New Horizons in Chinese Linguistics. 1996. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht (ed. with James Huang).
Li, Y. A., Aoun, J. (2003). Essays on the representational and derivational nature of grammar: the diversity of wh-constructions.
Li, Y. A., Aoun, J. (1993). Syntax of Scope.
Li, Y. A. (1990). Order and Constituency in Mandarin Chinese.
 
 
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