Gong Hwang-cherng

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Gong Hwang-cherng

Communications

#2477

World Rank

#3569

Historical Rank

Linguistics

#767

World Rank

#994

Historical Rank

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Gong Hwang-cherng's Degrees

• PhD Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
• Masters Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
• Bachelors Chinese Literature National Taiwan University

Why Is Gong Hwang-cherng Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Gong Hwang-cherng was a Taiwanese linguist who specialized in Sino-Tibetan comparative linguistics and the phonetic reconstruction of Tangut and Old Chinese. He was born on 10 December 1934 at Yunlin County in Taiwan, and graduated from National Taiwan Normal University in 1958 with a degree in English. He earned his PhD in 1975 from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany, and was a research fellow and later professor at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He was elected an honorary member of the Linguistic Society of America in 2001, and an academician of Academia Sinica in 2002. In 2006, he received a life achievement award from the Linguistic Society of Taiwan.

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Gong Hwang-cherng?

Gong Hwang-cherng is affiliated with the following schools:

• University of California, Berkeley
• Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
• National Taiwan Normal University
• National Taiwan University