Huade Huang
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