I am a PhD student of English linguistics at Karlstad University, Sweden. This academic year (2024/2025), I am visiting the UC Berkeley Department of Linguistics on a Fulbright scholarship. Most of my research interests fall within the domains of semantics, typology and bilingualism. In my dissertation project, I investigate the intra-language variability of path of motion framing and manner of motion encoding in speakers of English, Spanish and Swedish from a typological perspective.
Bin Shao is a professor of linguistics at the School of International Studies in Zhejiang University, China, and a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley. His main research focus involves the fields of lexicology and language change with the main theoretical orientation being cognitive and corpus linguistics.