CURRICULUM VITAE

Education
Chulalongkorn University, B.A. with First Class Honors. (English), 1981
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, M.A. (Linguistics), 1982
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ph.D. (Linguistics), 1986

Teaching
Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. 1986-Present.
Linguistic Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara. June-August 2001.

Academic Positions
Lecturer of Linguistics, Chulalongkorn University. 1986-1992.
Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Chulalongkorn University. 1992-2002.
Associate Professor of Linguistics, Chulalongkorn University. 2002-Present.

Administrative Position
Director of Linguistic Research Unit, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University. 1997-2000.

Memberships:
International Cognitive Linguistics Association
Association for Linguistic Typology

Grants and Fellowships:

1988-1990:	A research grant awarded by the National Electronics and Computer Technology. Ministry of Science, Technology, and Environment (Principal Investigator)
1990-1991:	A research grant granted by Chulalongkorn University (Principal Investigator)
1998-1999:	A research grant granted by Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University (Co-researcher)
2001-2002:	Visiting scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University, USA
2002-2003:	A research grant awarded by the Research Council of Thailand (Co-researcher)
2004-2007:	A research grant awarded by the Thailand Research Fund (Principal Investigator)

Conference Presentations
"Transitivity Continuum in Thai," The 3rd International Symposium on Language and Linguistics. Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. January 8-10. 1992

"Natural language understanding in Thailand," The Symposium on Natural Language Processing in Thailand (SNLP). Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. Thailand. 17-21 March 1993.

"Negation in serial verb constructions: a pragmatic study," The 4th International Symposium on Language and Linguistics. Pan-Asiatic Linguistics. Organized by the Institute of Language and Culture of Rural Development, Mahidol University, Royal River Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand. January 8-10, 1996.

"Cognitive constraints on transitive alternation of verbs in Thai," The XVIth Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics: Cognitive Linguistics Approaches to Lexical Semantics. Turku, Finland. November 14-16, 1996.

"A cognitive account of the causative/inchoative alternation in Thai," The 6th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (The 6th ICLC). Stockholm, Sweden, July 10-16, 1999.

"Semantics variations of the verb in context: a case study in Thai," The 5th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language (CSDL). Santa Barbara, USA. May 11-14, 2000.

"Semantic types of resultative predicates in transitive-based resultative constructions in Thai," The 11th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS 11). Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. May 16-18, 2001.

"A constrastive study of resultative constructions in Japanese, Korean and Mandarin Chinese: a cognitive approach," The First Seoul International Conference on Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics: Perspective for the 21st Century. Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. June 9-10, 2001.

"Toward a typology of resultative constructions: a case study of some languages of Pacific Rim Asia," The 4th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT IV), University of California, Santa Barbara. July 20, 2001.

"Resultative constructions with "cleaning" and "killing" verbs in Thai and Japanese: A comparative study," Theme Session on "Verbal Constructions in East and Southeast Asian Languages: The Interface between Cognitive and Areal Linguistics" Theme session on "Verbal Constructions in East and Southeast Asian Languages: The Interface between Cognitive and Areal Linguistics." The 7th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. University of California at Santa Barbara (The 7th ICLC). July 26, 2001.

"Grammaticalization of directional verbs into success markers in Thai," The 38th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS38). University of Chicago, Chicago. April 25-27, 2002.

"Resultative Constructions with "implied-result" and "entailed-result" verbs in Thai and English: A contrastive study,"

"Pragmatic inferencing in grammaticalization: A case study of directional verbs in Thai," The Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics (GURT 2003), Georgetown University, Washington D.C., February 15-17, 2003.

"Constraints on serializability in serial verb constructions in Thai: A cognitive account," The 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (The 8th ICLC). University of Rioja, Spain. July 20-25, 2003.

"The polysemic status of the verb of giving in Thai and Mandarin Chinese," The 14th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS 14). Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand. May 19-21, 2004.

"The verb of killing in Chinese, Thai and English," Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society 2004 (ALS 2004). University of Sydney, Australia. July 13-15, 2004.

Doctoral and MA Students

Doctoral Students

1992. Yajai Chuwicha. Clausehood in serial verb constructions in Thai.
1995. Chatchawadee Saralamba. A conceptual study of KHAW3.
1996. Sitthichai Sah-iam. Spatial description and spatial deixis in Mpi. (co-advisor)
2000. Kiyoko Takahashi. Expressions of emanation fictive motion events in Thai.

MA students

1989. Nantha Klinmanee. Classifiers in Mien.
1989. Wichai Kritprayoch. Aspect in Mien. (Co-advisor)
1992. Suda Rangkupan. Subsidiary verbs /Pay/ 'go' and /Maa/ 'come' in Thai.
1992. Chindarat Charaskumchornkul. Semantic constraints on occurrence of /ca?/ between two verb phrases.
1994. Malulee Pornchockchai. A stylistic study of the Thai civil code.
1996. Kiyoko Takahashi. Negation in Thai serial verb constructions.
1997. Napaporn Lamyai. Thai sublanguage used in stock exchange domain.
1999. Wichian Sunitham. Choice of spatial frames of reference by Thai and Japanese female and male speakers.
1999. Vipas Pothipath. Analytic causatives constructions in Thai.
1999. Varinthorn Jaruchottanawat. A study of noun and verb pairs in Thai sign language.
2000. Dale Kvanheim. Conceptual metaphors of time in Thai and English.