Keith Tse

I specialise in Indo-European and East Asian linguistics with specific reference to Romance and Sinitic languages, the former being my field of study in Higher Education (M.A. in Classics and Romance Languages at Balliol College, University of Oxford) and the latter my native language (Mandarin/Cantonese).

After completing my undergraduate studies at the University of Oxford (Balliol College), I did a Master's degree in Languages and Linguistics at the University of Manchester and a Research degree in Linguistics at the University of York.

My academic research focuses on three interrelated topics: Chinese Copulas and Clefts, Differential Object Marking in Romance and Chinese, and formal (Chomskyan/Minimalist) historical-comparative syntax and language evolution from Indo-European and East Asian perspectives. I also have secondary interests in sociolinguistics, especially dialectology and variationist linguistics, which feed into my research in language variation and change. For the purpose of conducting my research, I am also skilled in using statistical packages such as R, Python and LancBox.

In addition to my academic research, I am a professional interpreter and have provided translation services such as telephone and face-to-face simultaneous interpreting in the UK and US. I am also a freelance columnist and have written op-ed’s for Asia Times Online. All my journalistic writings can be found on MuckRack. 

Currently, I am the Community Journalist and Communication co-lead at the Ronin Institute where I am jointly in charge of internal and external communications. On 6th November 2020, I presented a Public Seminar entitled 'Biolinguistics and Language Evolution: Formal "Simplicity" and "Structural Simplification" ', and on 26th February 2021, I hosted a Public Seminar 'The Value of Social Cohesion in Our Communities' given by my fellow Ronin Research Scholar Angelo Luidens. In addition, I presented two short presentations on Spanish Linguistics on 22nd June 2021 and Save Cantonese on 28th February 2022 at our monthly Lightning Talk events.

I have also contributed two posts to our Ronin Institute Blog: Reflections on 2020: COVID, research, career and prospects and Save Cantonese: language advocacy for a project to preserve Cantonese in the West. Furthermore, I have edited blogposts written by other Research Scholars: Common Wealth Dividends: a new book about the wealth each of us is owed (Brent Ranalli), Sustaining The Weird Ecology (John LaRocco), A Year in Review for the Ronin Institute: 2021 (Arika Virapongse), The story of making "Geo-societal Narratives - Contextualising geosciences" (Martin Bohle), Multilingualism, global competency and language learning for a better world: The role of independent scholars (Kathleen Stein-Smith), Preserving cultural heritage in times of crisis: the role of social media (Kristin Parker), Sustainability at the Ronin Institute (Oumaima Ben Amor), Overcoming systemic barriers to inclusion in academia: the case for a hybrid conferences format (William Donald), A Year in Review for the Ronin Institute: 2022 (Arika Virapongse) and So you want to write and publish a book? (Jennifer Barr, Jacqueline Kory-Westlund, Alex Lancaster, Emily Monosson, Bryan Quoc Le). 

Moreover, I am a member of Fellow Travelers such as the Institute of Globally Distributed Open Research and Education (IGDORE) and am currently affiliated with Lancaster University (UK).

For more information about my academic and professional work and career, please visit my webpages and social media profiles below. Please also feel free to get in touch (keith.tse@ronininstitute.org) on any academic or professional matter.

External links:

(homepage) https://keithtselinguist.com

(academic webpage) https://sites.google.com/alumni.york.ac.uk/kkt503

(academia.edu) https://oxford.academia.edu/KeithTse

(ResearchGate) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Keith_Tse

(IGDORE) https://www.igdore.org/researchers

(Asia Times profile) www.asiatimes.com/author/keith-tse

(LinkedIn) www.linkedin.com/in/keith-tse

(blogs) https://www.keithtselinguist.wordpress.com / https://www.medium.com/@keithtse  

Here is a list of my publications in which I used my affiliation with the Ronin Institute (please also see our Scholarship Library). For a full list of my publications and presentations, please visit my academic webpage: 

Tse, K. (2018): Chinese Voice: ba (把) and bei (被). Poster presentation at International Forum in Frontiers in Linguistics (IFFL), 30th October 2018, Beijing Language and Culture University (北京語言大學). 

Tse, K. (2019): 'Chinese cleft constructions: microparametric "lateral" grammaticalization'. Buckeye East Asian Linguistics, Ohio State University, volume 4, pp. 69-78. 

Tse, K. (2019): 'Chinese BA (把) and BEI (被): Voice Applicatives and Argument Alternations (把字句和被字句：被動式與主動式). Oral presentation at Third International Workshop on Syntactic Cartography (IWSC2019), 27th October 2019, Beijing Language and Culture University (北京語言大學). 

Tse, K. (2020): 'Nominal and Verbal Parameters in Differential Object Marking: Romance ad and Chinese ba'. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 5(1):670-684. 

Tse, K. (2020): 'Book Review of Elly van Gelderen, ed. Cyclical Change Continued (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 227). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2016. Pp. 429'. Journal of Historical Linguistics 10(1):136-142. 

Ursini, F. and Tse, K. (2021): 'Region Prepositions: The View from French'. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue Canadienne De Linguistique 66(1):31-59.