Haiping Long - Biography#

Haiping LONG, a professor at the School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University, specializes in grammaticalization, linguistic typology, historical linguistics, and discourse grammar. He has co-authored several books, including World Lexicon of Grammaticalization, Second Edition (CUP), and has authored over 50 papers in journals including Studies in Language, Functions of Language, Linguistics, Journal of Historical Pragmatics, Lingua, Language Sciences, Australian Journal of Lingusitics, and Language and Linguistics. He has led four national social science projects, including a prestigious major funding project (The Construction of the Lexicon for Discourse Markers in Historical Chinese and Relevant Theoretical Studies), and has been awarded the Lü Shuxiang Linguistics Second Prize as well as a provincial award for Philosophy and Social Sciences.