ABOUT ME

Howdy y'all! My name is Haowen Jiang (or ʨjaŋ˦ xaw˩˨ wən˩˨ in IPA and 江豪文 in characters). I am currently a PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at Rice University, Houston, TX. I graduated from National Taiwan University at Taipei with an MA in Linguistics in 2006. After graduation, I served in the Army at Kinmen, a small island to the west of Taiwan, for over a year. From 2007 to 2008, I worked as a research assistant on an Isbukun Bunun dictionary project until I came to Rice in Aug 2008. 

My research interests include: 
(1) in terms of broad research agendas—(i) language typology and universals, (ii) language documentation, and (iii) Cognitive linguistics;

(2) in terms of specific research topics—(i) grammars of space (e.g. Motion events, demonstratives, route descriptions, etc.), (ii) nominalization, complementation, and relativization, (iii) metaphors and metonymies, and (iv) reported discourse (which may include speech, thought, and perception); 

(3) in terms of research languages—(i) Austronesian languages (mostly Formosan), (ii) Sinitic languages (mostly Mandarin, Minnan, Hakka), (iii) Romance languages (mostly French and Spanish), and (iv) Slavic languages (mostly Russian). 

Trivia: A linguisticky Anglocization of my given name is "How-When". Too bad that I don't work on interrogatives.