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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 at Wayne State University.[1] She is a leading specialist in Hmong–Mien languages and also notable for her reconstruction of Proto-Hmong–Mien.[2]

Ratliff earned a B.A. in English from Carleton College in 1968, an M.A.T. in English Education from University of Chicago in 1970, and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from University of Chicago in 1986, with a dissertation entitled The Morphological Functions of Tone in White Hmong.[3][4]

She currently serves as an associate editor for the historical linguistics journal Diachronica.[5] She is co-founder of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society along with Eric Schiller.[6]

  1. ^ "Martha Ratliff - College of Liberal Arts & Sciences - Wayne State University". clasprofiles.wayne.edu. Retrieved December 8, 2018.
  2. ^ "Martha Ratliff publications and citations". scholar.google.se. Retrieved December 8, 2018.
  3. ^ Communications, Wayne State University Web. "Martha Ratliff - College of Liberal Arts & Sciences - Wayne State University". clasprofiles.wayne.edu. Retrieved September 14, 2018.
  4. ^ "Graduate Alumni (1951-present) | Department of Linguistics". linguistics.uchicago.edu. Archived from the original on April 6, 2019. Retrieved December 8, 2018.
  5. ^ "Diachronica". diachronica.org. Retrieved September 14, 2018.
  6. ^ "Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society". www.jseals.org. Retrieved September 15, 2018.