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Martha Ratliff

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American linguist

Martha Ratliff
Born	1946 (age 79–80)
Occupation	Linguist

Academic background
Alma mater	University of Chicago
Thesis	The Morphological Functions of Tone in White Hmong (1986)
Academic work
Institutions	Wayne State University
Main interests	Hmong–Mien languages
Notable works	Hmong-Mien language history (2010)

Martha Ratliff is an American linguist and Professor Emerita atWayne State University.^[1] She is a leading specialist inHmong–Mien languages and also notable for her reconstruction ofProto-Hmong–Mien.^[2]

Ratliff earned a B.A. in English fromCarleton College in 1968, an M.A.T. in English Education fromUniversity of Chicago in 1970, and a Ph.D. in Linguistics fromUniversity of Chicago in 1986, with a dissertation entitledThe Morphological Functions of Tone in White Hmong.^[3]^[4]

She currently serves as an associate editor for the historical linguistics journalDiachronica.^[5] She is co-founder of theSoutheast Asian Linguistics Society along withEric Schiller.^[6]

Publications

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Ratliff, Martha (1992).Meaningful Tone: A Study of Tonal Morphology in Compounds, Form Classes, and Expressive Phrases in White Hmong.Dekalb, Illinois: Center for Southeast Asian Studies,Northern Illinois University.ISBN 1-877979-77-5.
Ratliff, Martha (2004). "Vocabulary of Environment and Subsistence in the Hmong–Mien Protolanguage". In Tapp; Michaud; Culas; Lee (eds.).Symposium on the Hmong/Miao in Asia.Chiang Mai,Thailand: Silkworm Books. pp. 147–165. Manuscript.
Ratliff, Martha (2010).Hmong-Mien language history.Canberra,Australia: Pacific Linguistics.ISBN 978-0-85883-615-0.
Newman, Paul and Martha Ratliff. 2001.Linguistic Fieldwork. Cambridge University Press.
玛莎·拉特利夫 [Martha Ratliff] (2019).Miao Yao yuyan lishi yanjiu [苗瑶语言历史研究]. Beijing: China Social Sciences Press.ISBN 9787520351775 (Chinese translation of Ratliff's 2010 book,Hmong-Mien language history)
Newman, Paul; Ratliff, Martha, eds. (2001).Linguistic Fieldwork. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.doi:10.1017/cbo9780511810206.ISBN 978-0-521-66937-5.