Tyler D. Davis — Curriculum Vitae

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Tibeto-Burman Languages Kuki-Chin languages, Burmese, Grammaticalization
Linguistic Typology Dialectology, Comparative Phonology, Historical Linguistics
Field Linguistics Narrative discourse analysis
Corpus linguistics Text analysis, discourse structure, tokenization
Mother-Tongue Based – Multilingual Education (MLE) Language standardization, literacy, language engagement, language recognition

2015-2018 M.A. Linguistics (First class Honors), Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Thesis: Verb stem alternation in Sizang Chin narrative discourse
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2012-2014 B.A. German (with Honors), Indiana University, Fort Wayne, United States.
Minors in Spanish and Linguistics

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In progress. Mother Tongue-Based [Multilingual] Education in Myanmar: A literature review. Working Draft, Possibly to appear in the Parami Journal of Education.
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2021. South, A., Edwards, N., Davis, T., Cin Khan Lian, Rachel Niang Dim, Naomi Thang, Stenning, E. Language and Education in Chin State. Working Paper No. 1. Covenant Consult.
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2018. The association of foreground and background information with verb stem alternation in Sizang Chin, Papers from the Chulalongkorn International Student Symposium on Southeast Asian Linguistics 2017, (pp. 32-41), Bangkok, Thailand.
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2017. An analysis of tone sandhi in Jieyáng Hakka using Optimality Theory, Payap University Research Symposium 2017: Full Paper Proceedings (pp. 450–458), Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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2020, 15 May. How COVID-19 deterred me from learning Urdu., The Myanmar Times. Online version.
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2020, 28 February. Top 10: Things every Burmese language learner must know!, The Myanmar Times. Online version.
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2023. Object Marking with hoŋ in Sizang Chin, 32nd South East Asian Linguistics Society Conference (SEALS 32), Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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2020. The Status of Ngawn in South Central (Kuki-Chin), 53rd International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL 53), Denton, Texas, USA & Remote.
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2018. Re-assessing conditional clauses in Sizang Chin, 10th Annual Meeting of The Northeast Indian Linguistic Society (NEILS 10), Silchar, India.
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2017. An analysis of tone sandhi in Jieyáng Hakka using Optimality Theory, Payap University Research Symposium, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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2016. Spatial Relations in Sizang Chin, The 22nd Himalayan Languages Symposium (HLS 22), Guwahati, India.
2015. The acquisition, use and attitude toward the Burmese language according to individuals from the Chin Hills of Myanmar, The First International Burma/Myanmar Studies Conference (ICBMS 1), Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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2019. The Linguistics of South Central Tibeto-Burman languages (in Tedim Chin), Zomi PESTEL Talk 5, Yangon, Myanmar.
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English: Native
From Northeast Indiana, U.S.
Burmese: Conversational
Self-study via semi-immersion since 2010 among refugees in the United States and Thailand. Have lived in Myanmar since May 2018. Have translated and interpreted professionally between Burmese and English.
Spanish: Conversational; Academic
Studied since middle school until end of undergrad. Have translated and interpreted professionally between Spanish and English.
German: Conversational; Academic
Studied academically. Was major of Bachelor’s degree.
Sizang Chin: Conversational
Minority language of Burma/Myanmar. Learned on-site and studied academically.