C.-T. James Huang#
| Membership Number: | 5170 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://scholar.harvard.edu/ctjhuang |
Present and Previous Positions
- Regular positions:
- 2001 - present Harvard University. Professor of Linguistics (2001 - present), Director of Graduate Studies (2002 - present), Acting Chair (2006)
- 1989 - 2002 University of California, Irvine. Professor of Linguistics (1989-2002), Department Chair (1994 - 1999, 2000 - 2001), Chancellor’s Professor (2000 - 2002)
- 1985 - 1991 Cornell University. Assistant Professor of Linguistics (1985 - 1988), Associate Professor (1988 - 1991)
- 1983 - 1985 National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Associate Professor of Linguistics
- 1982 - 1983 University of Hawai’i, Honolulu Assistant Professor of Chinese
- Visiting and fellowship positions:
- 2017 (August-December): Visiting Professor of Linguistics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
- 2014 (January-August): National Science Council Distinguished Visiting Chair, at Academia Sinica, Taipei
- 2013 (June-December): Visiting Professor of Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
- 1997 - 1998 (one year): Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California
- 1988 - 1989 (one year): Fellow, Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, NY
Fields of Scholarship
- Linguistic theory
- Comparative and parametric theory
- Syntax-semantics interface
- Chinese and East Asian linguistics
- Generative syntax
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Elected as Academician, Academia Sinica
- 2015 Elected as Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America
- 2014 Life-time Achievement Award, Linguistic Society of Taiwan
- 2014 National Science Council Distinguished Visiting Chair, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- 2011 Lu-Xun Humanities Distinguished Lecture, Peking University
- 2008 - 2011 Tsing Hua Distinguished Chair, National Tsinghua University
- 2008 - 2011 Changjiang Scholar Chair, Beijing Language and Culture University
- 2000 - 2001 President, International Association of Chinese Linguistics
- 1997 - 1998 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Palo Alto, Stanford, CA)
- 1988 - 1989 Gugghenheim Fellow, John Guggenheim Foundation
