Mark Alves

Mark Alves, Professor at Montgomery College

Mark Alves is a professor in the Department of English for Academic Purposes (ELAP), Linguistics, and Communication Studies at Montgomery College in Maryland. He has taught at the college since 2001.1

Educational Background

• Double BA, Chinese & Linguistics, University of Maryland at College Park
• PhD, Linguistics (Second Language Acquisition and Asian linguistics), University of Hawai'i at Mānoa1

Research Interests

• Vietnamese Corpus Linguistics
• EAP pedagogy
• Mon-Khmer linguistics
• Vietnamese historical linguistics
• Austroasiatic languages
• Chinese historical linguistics
• Southeast Asian linguistics23

Selected Publications

• "Loanwords in Vietnamese" in Loanwords in the world's languages: A comparative handbook (2009)3
• "Identifying Early Sino-Vietnamese Vocabulary via Linguistic, Historical, Archaeological, and Ethnological Data" in Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics (2016)3
• "Early Sino-Vietnamese Lexical Data and the Relative Chronology of Tonogenesis in Chinese and Vietnamese" in Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics (2018)3

Additional Information

• Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society since 20151
• Has published dozens of linguistics articles and given numerous presentations at conferences1
• LinkedIn username: mark-alves-86393632