C.-T. James Huang

C.-T. James Huang
Professor Jim Huang in Hong Kong, 2017.
Born	1948 (age 75–76) Fuli, Hualien, Taiwan
Alma mater	National Taiwan Normal University (BA, MA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Known for	Condition on Extraction Domain Logical form
Scientific career
Fields	Linguistics
Institutions	Harvard University Past: Fu Jen Catholic University (1976–78) University of Hawaii (1982–83) National Taiwan Normal University (1983–85) National Tsing Hua University (1983–85) Cornell University (1985–91) UC-Irvine (1989–2002)
Thesis	Logical relations in Chinese and the theory of grammar (1982)
Doctoral advisors	Noam Chomsky Ken Hale
Website	scholar.harvard.edu/ctjhuang

C.T. James Huang (Chinese: 黃正德; born 1948) is a Taiwanese-American linguist. He is a professor of linguistics at Harvard University.

Life and career

Huang was born in a small township of Fuli, Hualien, in Taiwan. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from National Taiwan Normal University in 1971 and 1974, respectively, and in 1982 earned a Ph.D. in linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received the Linguistic Society of Taiwan's Lifetime Achievement award in 2014 and was elected a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in 2015. In 2016, he was elected an Academician in the Convocation of the Academia Sinica's division of Humanities and Social Sciences. In 2019 he was elected a Member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe).

Huang has published articles and books in both English in Mandarin Chinese within the generative grammar framework of linguistics, extensively on the structure of Mandarin Chinese grammar. His influence in the field is widely credited for "paving the way and leading the development of Chinese theoretical syntax"; "without his pioneering research [...] such a field would not exist in the rich way we presently know it". In 2009, Huang collaborated with Y.-H. Audrey Li and Yafei Li to co-author a Cambridge Syntax Guide spanning the work of the past 25 years in theoretical Chinese syntax. In 2015, Huang received a Festschrift comprising the work of 21 specialists in Chinese syntax, which is headlined by his own most recent publication on the subject of both synchronic and diachronic approaches to syntactic analyticity in Chinese parametric grammar.

On 24 Apr 2024, Huang announced his retirement after teaching for 45 years.

Books

• C.-T. James Huang; Y. H. Audrey Li; Andrew Simpson (27 February 2014). The Handbook of Chinese Linguistics. Wiley. ISBN 978-1-118-58454-5.
• C.-T. James Huang; Audrey Li Yen Hui (6 December 2012). New Horizons in Chinese Linguistics. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-94-009-1608-1.
• C.-T. James Huang; Robert May (6 December 2012). Logical Structure and Linguistic Structure: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-94-011-3472-9.
• C.-T. James Huang (15 April 2010). Between Syntax and Semantics. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-21758-7.
• C.-T. James Huang; Y.-H. Audrey Li; Yafei Li (19 March 2009). The Syntax of Chinese. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-59058-7.
• Peter Cole; Gabriella Hermon; C.-T. James Huang (17 October 2000). Long Distance Reflexives. BRILL. ISBN 978-1-84950-874-2.
• C.-T. James Huang (1998). Logical Relations in Chinese and the Theory of Grammar. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-8153-3136-0.

External links

• Homepage
• Faculty Webpage @ Harvard
• Linguist List 'Famous Linguists' Autobiographical Archived 2021-12-09 at the Wayback Machine