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William J. Hanna

William J. Hanna

Lecturer of Linguistics

B.A. Cultural Anthropology, Lehigh University
M.A. Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington

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Bill Hanna has been adjunct faculty at Gordon since 2020, teaching a course in Sociolinguistics. He lived in Thailand for 36 years where he taught linguistics at two universities. He also worked with teams of pastors who are translating the Bible into their own minority languages. His interests include the syntax and morphology of Southeast Asian languages, and the Tai Lue language.

Selected publications:

Dai Lue-English Dictionary. Silkworm Books (2012)

Dai Lue-English Dictionary online at webonary.org/dailu (2019-2023)

Elaborate Expressions in Dai Lue. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 36.1.33-56 (2013)

Numeral Classifiers in Tai Lue (Xishuangbanna). with Audra Phillips. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 12.2.1-34 (2019)

In process: A Frequency Dictionary of Tai Lue.