Martha Ratliff

Martha Ratliff is a leading specialist in Hmong–Mien languages and Professor Emerita at Wayne State University. She currently serves as associate editor for the historical linguistics journal Diachronica.[1] She is also notable for her recent reconstruction of the Proto-Hmong–Mien language. She is co-founder of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society along with Eric Schiller.[2]

Ratliff earned a B.A. in English from Carleton College in 1968, an M.A.T. in English Education from University of Chicago in 1970, and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from University of Chicago in 1986.[3]

Publications

  • Ratliff, Martha (1992). Meaningful Tone: A Study of Tonal Morphology in Compounds, Form Classes, and Expressive Phrases in White Hmong. Dekalb, Illinois: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University. ISBN 1-877979-77-5.
  • Ratliff, Martha (2004). Tapp, Michaud, Culas, and Lee, eds. Vocabulary of Environment and Subsistence in the Hmong–Mien Protolanguage. Symposium on the Hmong/Miao in Asia. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Books. pp. 147–165. Manuscript.
  • Ratliff, Martha (2010). Hmong–Mien-language history. Canberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics. ISBN 0-85883-615-7.

References

  1. ↑ "Diachronica". diachronica.org. Retrieved 2018-09-14.
  2. ↑ "Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society". www.jseals.org. Retrieved 2018-09-15.
  3. ↑ Communications, Wayne State University Web. "Martha Ratliff - College of Liberal Arts & Sciences - Wayne State University". clasprofiles.wayne.edu. Retrieved 2018-09-14.


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