Jerome Packard is an American

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

specializing in Chinese linguistics and

psycholinguistics Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the interrelation between linguistic factors and psychological aspects. The discipline is mainly concerned with the mechanisms by which language is processed and represented in the mind ...

. He is a Professor Emeritus of Chinese, Educational Psychology and Linguistics at the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States. Established in 1867, it is the f ...

. His book ''The Morphology of Chinese'' (2000) is influential and widely cited in Chinese linguistics. His more recent book ''A Social View on the Chinese Language'' (2021) offers a linguistic introduction to the Chinese language for the general reader.

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Review of ''The Morphology of Chinese'' by San DuanmuReview of ''The Morphology of Chinese'' by Richard SproatReview of ''The Morphology of Chinese'' by Karen Chung
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