Cheng-Fu Chen

Associate Professor of Modern Languages

Research Interests

Mandarin Chinese, Rukai (Austronesian, Taiwan), syntax, semantics

Biography

Dr. Cheng-Fu Chen teaches Mandarin Chinese at all levels. His current research focuses on eventuality, argument structure, and related morphosyntactic and syntactic-semantic issues across typologically diverse languages.

Courses Taught

  • Chin 313 Media Chinese I: Newspapers and Internet
  • Chin 314 Media Chinese II: Broadcast News
  • Chin 325 The Chinese Writing System
  • Chin 330 Introduction to Chinese Linguistics
  • Chin 401 Advanced Chinese I
  • Chin 402 Advanced Chinese II
  • Chin 425 Chinese Narratives and Storytelling
  • Chin 450 Domain Knowledge
  • Chin 550 Advanced Domain Knowledge

Education

M.A. Linguistics, National Taiwan University (1999)

M.A. Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin (2004)

Ph.D. Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin (2008)