Jie Xu

Professor Jie Xu serves as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Director of the Center for Linguistics, and Director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Macau. He holds a PhD from the University of Maryland (USA) and has extensive academic experience across multiple institutions. His research focuses on grammatical theory, Chinese linguistics, and language education. Key areas of study include comparative syntax of Chinese and English, principle-based grammatical analysis, and innovative language use in literary works. He has authored over 20 books and numerous peer-reviewed articles in leading journals like Language and Linguistics and Journal of Chinese Linguistics. Notable contributions include formal analyses of Chinese syntax, studies on language variation in dialects, and theoretical frameworks for linguistic rule violations in creative contexts. Professor Xu teaches advanced courses on Chinese linguistics and has pioneered interdisciplinary research bridging formal grammar and sociolinguistics.

Education: PhD (1993) in Linguistics, University of Maryland; MA (1988) in East Asian Linguistics, University of Hawaii; MA (1984) in Chinese Linguistics, Central China Normal University; BA (1981) in Chinese Language and Literature, Henan University.

His research explores grammatical universals through Chinese syntax, with recent work addressing sentence structure variability, dialect lexical integration into standard Chinese, and cross-linguistic comparisons of ellipsis phenomena. He collaborates internationally on projects like language policy formulation and pedagogical frameworks for multilingual education.