Professor Shengli Feng began his academic career as an undergraduate student in the History Department of Beijing Normal University in 1977. He was accepted by the Graduate Program in the Department of Language and Literature at the Beijing Normal University in 1979, majoring in Ancient Chinese Exegesis under the supervision of Professor Lu Zongda. After completing his MA degree, he taught Classical Chinese and Language and Literature in the Department of Language and Literature at Beijing Normal University. In 1986, he was accepted as a Ph.D. candidate by the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his Ph.D. degree in 1995. As Assistant Professor, he taught Chinese language, Chinese linguistics and Chinese culture in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Kansas since 1994 and in 1999 he was promoted to Associate Professor. He was appointed in 2003 as Professor of the Practice and Director of the Chinese Language Program here at Harvard University.

PUBLICATIONS

Study on Chinese Prosodic Grammar 《漢語韻律語法研究》(in Chinese). 2005 Peking University Press.

The Prosodic Syntax of Chinese (in English). 2002 Lincom Europa.

Prosodic Syntax in Chinese 《漢語韻律句法學》(in Chinese). 2000. Shanghai Education Press.

Interactions between Morphology, Syntax and Prosody in Chinese 《漢語的韻律,句 法與詞法》(in Chinese). 1997. Peking University Press.

"Prosodically Constrained Post-verbal PPs in Mandarin Chinese." 2003. Linguistics 6.

"Prosodically Constrained Syntactic Changes in Early archaic Chinese." 1996. Journal of East Asian Linguistics.

SPRING COURSES

Chinese Linguistics 200. Introduction to Teaching of Modern Chinese Language