Martha Ratliff
Born1946 (age 77–78)
NationalityAmerican
OccupationLinguist
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
ThesisThe Morphological Functions of Tone in White Hmong (1986)
Academic work
InstitutionsWayne State University
Main interestsHmong–Mien languages
Notable worksHmong-Mien language history (2010)

Martha Ratliff is an American linguist and Professor Emerita at Wayne State University.[1] She is a leading specialist in Hmong–Mien languages and also notable for her reconstruction of Proto-Hmong–Mien.[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, with a dissertation entitled The Morphological Functions of Tone in White Hmong.[3][4]

She currently serves as an associate editor for the historical linguistics journal Diachronica.[5] She is co-founder of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society along with Eric Schiller.[6]

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). "Vocabulary of Environment and Subsistence in the Hmong–Mien Protolanguage". In Tapp; Michaud; Culas; Lee (eds.). 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 978-0-85883-615-0.
  • Newman, Paul and Martha Ratliff. 2001. Linguistic Fieldwork. Cambridge University Press.
  • 玛莎·拉特利夫 [Martha Ratliff] (2019). Miao Yao yuyan lishi yanjiu [苗瑶语言历史研究]. Beijing: China Social Sciences Press. ISBN 9787520351775 (Chinese translation of Ratliff's 2010 book, Hmong-Mien language history)

References

  1. ↑ "Martha Ratliff - College of Liberal Arts & Sciences - Wayne State University". clasprofiles.wayne.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-08.
  2. ↑ "Martha Ratliff publications and citations". scholar.google.se. Retrieved 2018-12-08.
  3. ↑ Communications, Wayne State University Web. "Martha Ratliff - College of Liberal Arts & Sciences - Wayne State University". clasprofiles.wayne.edu. Retrieved 2018-09-14.
  4. ↑ "Graduate Alumni (1951-present) | Department of Linguistics". linguistics.uchicago.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-04-06. Retrieved 2018-12-08.
  5. ↑ "Diachronica". diachronica.org. Retrieved 2018-09-14.
  6. ↑ "Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society". www.jseals.org. Retrieved 2018-09-15.


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