Martha Ratliff is an American linguist and Professor Emerita at

Wayne State University Wayne State University (WSU) is a public university, public research university in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1868, Wayne State consists of 13 schools and colleges offering approximately 375 programs. It is Michigan's third-l ...

. She is a leading specialist in

Hmong–Mien languages The Hmong–Mien languages (also known as Miao–Yao and rarely as Yangtzean) are a highly tonal language family of southern China and northern Southeast Asia. They are spoken in mountainous areas of southern China, including Guizhou, Hunan, Yunn ...

and also notable for her reconstruction of Proto-Hmong–Mien. Ratliff earned a B.A. in English from

Carleton College Carleton College ( ) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota, United States. Founded in 1866, the main campus is between Northfield and the approximately Carleton ...

in 1968, an M.A.T. in English Education from

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Chic ...

in 1970, and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from

in 1986, with a dissertation entitled ''The Morphological Functions of Tone in White Hmong''. She currently serves as an associate editor for the historical linguistics journal ''Diachronica''. She is co-founder of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society along with Eric Schiller.

Publications

* * Manuscript. * *Newman, Paul and Martha Ratliff. 2001. ''Linguistic Fieldwork''. Cambridge University Press. * 玛莎·拉特利夫 artha Ratliff(2019).
Miao Yao yuyan lishi yanjiu
' ��瑶语言历史研究 Beijing: China Social Sciences Press. (Chinese translation of Ratliff's 2010 book, ''Hmong-Mien language history'') *

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External links

Official faculty page
Linguists of Southeast Asian languages 1946 births Living people Wayne State University faculty Linguists of Hmong–Mien languages University of Chicago alumni American women linguists 20th-century American linguists 21st-century American linguists Historical linguists {{US-linguist-stub