Mr. Huade Huang

Huade Huang

MA (ANU)

Huade Huang is a linguistics PhD candidate at the school. His PhD project aims to document and describe Kua'nsi (ISO 639-3: ykn), an endangered Tibetan-Burman language spoken by around 5000 people in Yunnan Province, Southwestern China. Based on the data collected from his fieldwork, Huade's thesis provides a typologically informed and language-particular description of Kua'nsi. Huade has created an archive of audio and video recordings, translation, and transcription of Kua'nsi monologues and conversations. The archive can be assessed at https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/HH1. Huade also works on Motu, an Oceanic language spoken in Hanua Bada, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea with a focus on the morphosyntactic variations. He collaborated with Stephanie Yam to create an archive of Motu that can be assessed at https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/SY1. Huade is also involved in the research project 'Where Does Grammar Come From? The Cognitive Basis of Transitivity and Grammatical Relations' (The Research Council of Norway, project number: 275243, https://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/research/projects/where-does-grammar-come-from/index.html#). In the project, he conducts a typological survey of the voice systems and grammatical relations in Austronesian languages and also works on the diachronic development of these systems.

Research Interest

language docuemntation and description; linguistic typology; language change; langauge variation using corpus-based approaches; mutlilingualism and language diversity; Sino-Tibetan languages; Ausronesian languages.

Thesis Title/Topic

A Grammar of Kua'nsi

Expertise Area(s)

Language documentation
Linguistic typology
Descriptive linguistics
Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)
Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology)
Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)
Chinese Languages
Asian Languages
Pacific Languages

Contact Email

huade.huang@anu.edu.au

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