David Prager Branner 林德威

Associate Professor and Chinese Program Coordinator,
University of Maryland

Some past publications

1. 1999. A study of Edward Harper Parker, an early Western dialect fieldworker in China.. Journal of the American Oriental Society 119/1:12-34.
2. 1999. Problems in Comparative Chinese Dialectology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
3. 1999. "The Classification of Longyan". In Issues in Chinese Dialect Description and Classification, edited by Richard VanNess Simmons. Journal of Chinese Linguistics monograph series no. 15, pp. 36-83.
4. 1999. "A Neutral Transcription System for Teaching Medieval Chinese". T‘ang Studies 17:1-170.
5. 2000. Problems in Comparative Chinese Dialectology (2000)
6. 2002. Common Chinese and Early Chinese Morphology. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 122/4:706-721.
7. 2002. Short Chinese Dialect Reports I. Edited volume. Yuen Ren Society, 2002. Volume 3 of the Yuen Ren Society's dialectology series.
8. 2003. " 'Red Cliffs' in Taiwanese Hànbûn". CHINOPERL, pp. 67-100.
9. 2003. "On Early Chinese Morphology and its Intellectual History". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Ser. 3, 15/1:45-76.
10. 2003. "Tonal Prosody in Chinese Parallel Prose". Journal of the American Oriental Society 123/1.
11. 2006. “China: Writing system.” The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, ed. Keith Brown. 2nd edition. Amsterdam and London: Elsevier. Vol. 2, pp. 331-341. (Password required.)
12. 2006. The Chinese Rime Tables. Corrigenda.

Columbia Early China Seminar programs for which I share responsibility may be viewed at

1. 2004-05 academic year program
2. 2005-06 academic year program
3. 2006-07 academic year program
4. 2007-08 academic year program

Please note that under our standard agreement with our speakers, these articles are password-protected and I am not permitted to give the passwords to non-members of the Seminar.

The Seminar is now concentrating on the problems connected with literacy in early China. A short description of the program is posted on a special page. In the Spring of 2009, there will be a three-day symposium on the subject, culminating in a book.