Hilary Chappell（曹茜蕾） is a professor of linguistics at theSchool for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris. Her research focuses ongrammaticalization and thetypology of theSinitic languages.[1][2]
Chappell graduated from theAustralian National University in 1978 with first-class honours in Asia Studies and went on to pursue a PhD at the same institution, awarded in 1984 for a thesis entitled “A semantic analysis of passive, causative and dative constructions in standard Chinese”.[1][2][3] After research stays at theUniversity of Cologne as aHumboldt fellow (1984–1986) and atUCSB and theUniversity of Southern California as aFulbright scholar (1987–1988), she took up a position as Reader in the linguistics department atLa Trobe University,Melbourne, where she taught for eighteen years.[1][2][3] In 2005 she was appointed senior researcher first class at theFrench National Centre for Scientific Research and professor at EHESS, serving in 2007–8 as director of its Centre for Linguistic Research on East Asia (Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l’Asie Orientale, CRLAO).[1]
Chappell has been the recipient of numerous honours and awards. In 1999 she received a Senior Scholar award from theChiang Ching-kuo Foundation of Taiwan.[3] From 2005 to 2009 she served as editor-in-chief of the journalCahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale.[3] In 2009 she taught an invited course on the typology of Sinitic languages at theLSA Summer Institute atUC Berkeley.[2] In 2010 she was elected as a member of theAcademia Europaea.[1] Between 2009 and 2013 she held anERC Advanced Grant for her project SINOTYPE on the hybrid syntactic typology of Sinitic languages.[4] Between 2015 and 2017 she held a visiting position as a high-level foreign specialist atShanghai Jiao Tong University, funded by the ChineseMinistry of Education.[3]
Chappell has worked on various topics in the synchrony and diachrony of theSinitic languages, particularly from the perspective ofgrammaticalization andlinguistic typology. Her work on object-marking constructions is based on evidence from over 600 Chinese dialects, and she has carried out extensive fieldwork on theXianghua language ofHunan province. Her work on areal patterns of grammaticalization makes the case that there are five major dialect areas within China.[3]
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