PhD Li-Chen Yeh
MA (ANU)
PhD scholar
Li-Chen Yeh is a PhD student at Australian National University, holding the Research Training Program (RTP) scholarship (2019-2021). She was a research affiliate of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language. Her interdisciplinary research integrates findings in Austronesian linguistics and history studies of peopling and indigenous migration in central Taiwan. Li-Chen is finishing her PhD thesis on the emerging grammatical changes of Pazeh-Kaxabu – an under-described Austronesian language in Taiwan.
Research Interest
Language endangerment Austronesian linguistics Lexical functional grammar
Thesis Title/Topic
Social-historical dynamics of contact and grammatical changes in Pazeh-Kaxabu
Expertise Area(s)
Formosan linguistics