Jackson Sun (linguist)


Jackson T.-S. Sun is a Taiwanese linguist working on languages of the Sino-Tibetan and Austroasiatic families. He is best known for his pioneering documentation and historical-comparative work in Tani, Rgyalrongic, and Tibetic languages.

Biography

Sun was born in 1956. He earned his doctorate in Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1993. He is currently a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Linguistics of the Academia Sinica, where he served as Director from 2008 till 2011, and a Chair Professor at the Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University. He was elected an Academician of the Academia Sinica in 2018.

Selected publications

Publications - Journal Articles and Book Chapters