James C. Wamsley
he/him/his
Associate Professor, Wenzhou Business College
Visiting Assistant Professor, 2023-2026
PhD, Indiana University Bloomington, 2023
- Office Location
- 511 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Biography
James C. Wamsley received his PhD. in Linguistics from Indiana University in 2023. His dissertation, Topics in Hakha Lai Nominal Marking, investigates discourse deictics, a type of postnominal marker which performs several semantic and pragmatic functions in Hakha Lai, a South Central (formerly 'Kuki-Chin') language spoken in northwest Burma. His current research involves the encoding of referential properties of nominals in South Central Tibeto-Burman languages. Prior to coming to the University of Rochester, James was a founding member of the Chin Languages Research Project (chinlanguages.org).
Research Overview
Research Interests
- Semantics
- Pragmatics
- Definiteness
- Nominal Morphology
- Tibeto-Burman languages
- Fieldwork
Selected Publications
- James C. Wamsley. 2023. Topics in Hakha Lai Nominal Marking. PhD. Thesis, Indiana University Bloomington.
- Kelly Berkson, James C. Wamsley, Samson Lotven, Shobhana Chelliah, Kenneth Van Bik, Sara Champlin, Kimberly Sakhong, Sui Hnem Par, Alina Matthews, Amanada Bohnert. 2023. "A developing community of collaboration in Indiana". In B. Murray, M. Brill-Carlat & M. Höhn, (eds.) Migration, Displacement, and Higher Education: Now What? (Political Pedagogies). Palgrave Macmillan. 23-35.
- James C. Wamsley. 2022. "Hakha Lai Definites". InIshani Guha, Sana Kidwai and Martha Schwarz (eds.) Proceedings of (F)ASAL 10.
- Alina Matthews & James C. Wamsley. 2020. "A Brief Report on the Demonstrative System of Hnaring Lutuv". Indiana Working Papers in South Asian Languages & Cultures (IWPSALC) 2(1).