Kellen Parker van Dam
Dr. Kellen Parker Van Dam
Curriculum vitae
Doctor of Philosophy, Linguistics – May 2019
Department of Languages & Linguistics
La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Thesis topic: The Tone System of Tangsa-Nocte and Related Northern Naga Varieties
Master of Arts, Linguistics – November 2014
College of Humanities, Graduate Institute of Linguistics
National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan 國立清華大學
Thesis topic: A Preliminary Look at the Historical Development of Modern Tàihú Wú Dialects
Qualifying paper: Aspect Marking in Affirmative Statements: A Synchronic and Diachronic Look at Standard Mandarin and Wú
Publications
- van Dam, K. P. (2023) “Revisiting ‘Eye of the Day’: Tibeto-Burman evidence and arguments both for and against contact as the driver of innovation, in response to Urban (2010) & Blust (2011)”. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman. Area Vol. 46:2 (2023) pp.235–264
- van Dam, K. P. & S. I. Rahman. 2022. “Tangsa-Nocte as a Continuum: A diagnostic feature list for classification of varieties”. Languages and Peoples of the Eastern Himalayan Region 21.2.
- van Dam, K. P., 2020. “The syntax of intensifiers in Muishaung”. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 43 (1), pp.19-36.
- — 2020. “An Answer to Y.R. Chao’s Problem of Affricate Distributions in Wú”. LACUS Forum, 41.
- — 2019. "Mapping the Frontier: Correlating Representations of Tangsa-Nocte Villages in Early British Survey Maps with Modern GIS Data." Anthropology Today: An International Peer Reviewed Neira Journal. North East Institute for Research in Anthropology, Meghalaya, India.
- — 2018. “A cross-varietal description of modifiers of basic colour terms in Tangsa-Nocte”. North East Indian Linguistics8, pp.47-64.
Focus areas
- Phonology, phonetics & linguistic tone systems
- Typology
- Historical linguistics
- Anthropological linguistics, language & culture
- Language contact, areal linguistics
- Languages of East and Southeast Asia (Sino-Tibetan, Southwestern Tai)
Courses
Summer semester 2026
Winter semester 2025/26
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