Biography
Hi, my name is Thomas Van Hoey (IPA:[‘to:mas van ‘hui]). Alternatively, you may find me by my Chinese name — 司馬智 (Hanyu pinyin: Sīmǎ Zhì).
I am a sinologist and a linguist, with MA degrees obtained at the University of Leuven, Belgium. At this moment, I am a Ph.D candidate at the Graduate Institute of Linguistics of National Taiwan University with a scholarship provided by NTU (Research Fellowship for Outstanding International Doctoral Students 優秀國際博士生獎學金).
My current research is a diachronic analysis of ideophones in Chinese. My supervisor is Lu Chiarung. I have a passion for Mandarin and Premodern Chinese, as well as many other languages and the phenomenon ‘language’ in general.
Between my bachelor and my master of Sinology, I was able to study at Suzhou University 苏州大学 with a scholarship provided by the Hanban.
Click here for my academic cv.
Interests
- ideophones
- (Premodern) Chinese
- historical linguistics
- Cognitive Linguistics
- lexical semantics
Education
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PhD in Linguistics, 2015-present
National Taiwan University
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MA Linguistics, 2015
University of Leuven
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MA Sinology, 2014
University of Leuven
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BA Sinology, 2012
University of Leuven
