Graduate Students :: Graduates
Andrew Shimunek
Email: ashimune@indiana.edu
Advisor: György Kara
Dual M.A. (August 2007), Department of Central Eurasian Studies (specialization in Mongolian Studies) and Department of Linguistics, Indiana University, Bloomington
Dual B.A. (May 2004), Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (Chinese Studies major) and Department of Linguistics, Indiana University, Bloomington
Research Interests: East Asian and Central Eurasian historical linguistics and philology (especially Mongol-Xianbeic, Sinitic, Tungusic, and Turkic), diachronic and synchronic phonology, morphology, linguistic typology, language description and documentation (including linguistic fieldwork), historical dialectology (including the dialects of Medieval or Middle Chinese), and philologically- and typologically-motivated approaches to language reconstruction and script decipherment.
Languages
- English (native)
- Mongolian (near native)
- Mandarin (advanced)
- Written/Classical Mongol, Literary/Classical Chinese, Manchu, Ewenki (reading)
- Japanese, Kazak (intermediate)
- French, German, Russian (limited reading)
