Martha Ratliff
Martha Ratliff | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1946 (age 78–79) |
| Nationality | American |
| 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. She is a leading specialist in Hmong–Mien languages and also notable for her reconstruction of Proto-Hmong–Mien.
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.
She currently serves as an associate editor for the historical linguistics journal Diachronica. She is co-founder of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society along with Eric Schiller.