Lín Jiālěi

Lín Jiālěi 林加蕾 was born in 1980 at Dānyáng in Jiāngsū province. From 1999 to 2006, she studied Teaching Chinese as a Second Language and subsequently Teaching Methodogy and Linguistics at the Beijing Language and Culture University. She has worked as a Chinese language teacher in Beijing, completed an internship in Natural Language Processing at Chinese National Language and Character Working Committee, and worked at the Center for Human and Economic Development Studies of Peking University. Then she moved to the Netherlands, where she joined the research team of the Himalayan Languages Project.

Lín Jiālěi is studying the Shuōwén Jiězì and the Shījīng and studies on Chinese historical morphology by scholars such as William Baxter. Lín Jiālěi is testing the hypothesis that Old Chinese must have traces of the pronominalised agreement morphology that we find in most other branches of Tibeto-Burman, where older agreement morphology in the verbal inflection is preserved either vestigially or in the form of full-fledged agreement systems. She is investigating whether empirical evidence might be recoverable to test this hypothesis.