Kristin Meier

Kristin Meier was born in 1973 in Berlin. She studied Sinology (Sinolinguistik), Central Asian Studies (Tibetologie) and Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at the Humboldt University in Berlin. With a full scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst), she spent one year studying at Sìchuān University in Chéngdū. After taking her intermediate examinations (Zwischenprüfung) at the Humboldt University, she continued her studies at Leiden University, where she took a Master’s degree in Comparative Tibeto-Burman Linguistics.

As a student, she worked as a research assistant for the project ‘Semantic roles, case relations, and cross-clausal reference in Tibetan’ at Tübingen University, a project financed by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). As a Ph.D. student of the Himalayan Languages Project at Leiden University, she is currently writing a descriptive grammar on Tosu, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in remote portion of Sìchuān province that is very much on the verge of extinction