Ross Adam Perlin

Ross Adam Perlin is completing grammar of Trung, an endangered Tibeto- Burman language spoken by a community in southwestern China. The Trung are known in Mandarin as Dúlóng. Ross studied at Princeton, Tsinghua University, Stanford and Cambridge and completed a double B.A. and an M.Phil. in language-related majors. Subsequently, he obtained an M.A. in Language Documentation and Description from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Selected Publications

Perlin, Ross. 2009. ‘Language attitudes of the Tr‘ung’, Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 32 (1): 91-113.

Perlin, Ross. 2012. ‘Review of WeSay, a tool for collaborating on dictionaries with non-linguists’, Language Documentation & Conservation, 6.