Paul Li, or Li Jen-kuei ( zh, c=李壬癸, p=Lǐ Rénguǐ; born 20 September 1936), is a Taiwanese linguist. Li is a research fellow at the Institute of Linguistics,

Academia Sinica Academia Sinica (AS, ; zh, t=中央研究院) is the national academy of the Taiwan, Republic of China. It is headquartered in Nangang District, Taipei, Nangang, Taipei. Founded in Nanjing, the academy supports research activities in mathemat ...

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Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea ...

. Li is a leading specialist on

Formosan languages The Formosan languages are a geographic grouping comprising the languages of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, all of which are Austronesian. They do not form a single subfamily of Austronesian but rather up to nine separate primary subfamili ...

and has published dictionaries on the Pazeh and

Kavalan language Kavalan (also known as Kvalan, Kebalan or Kbalan) was formerly spoken in the Northeast coast area of Taiwan by the Kavalan people (噶瑪蘭). It is an East Formosan language of the Austronesian family. Kavalan is no longer spoken in its ori ...

s. Li was elected a member of

in 2006.

References

*Chang, Henry Yungli, Lillian Mei-chin Huang, and

Dah-an Ho Ho Dah-an (; born 22 September 1948) is a Taiwanese linguist. Education Ho earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1970, followed by a Master of Arts in 1973 and Doctorate of Chinese Literature in 1981. Career Ho was a research fellow in Academi ...

(eds.). ''Streams converging into an ocean: festschrift in honor of Professor Paul Jen-kuei Li on his 70th birthday ��川匯海: 李壬癸先生七秩壽慶論文集'. Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, 2006.
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1936 births Linguists of Austronesian languages Linguists of Formosan languages Linguists from Taiwan People from Yilan County, Taiwan Living people Members of Academia Sinica {{China-linguist-stub