Jackson T.-S. Sun is a Taiwanese linguist working on languages of the Sino-Tibetan and Austroasiatic families. He is best known for his pioneering documentation and historical-comparative work inTani, Rgyalrongic, and Tibetic languages.
2019. The ancestry of Horpa: Further morphological evidence. In Kong, Jiangping, Ancestry of the languages and peoples of China. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press.
2018. The Synchronic and diachronic phonology of Va: A Wa-Lawa language of Yunnan. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 41, 133–174.
2018. Evidentials and person. In Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, The Oxford handbook of evidentiality, 47-63. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2017. 〈上東谷霍爾語的發聲態對立〉.《中國語言學報》45. 1-19.
2017. Pang phonology and vocabulary. In Sun Jingtao et al., Frontiers in Sinitic and Sino-Tibetan linguistics: studies in the languages of China festschrift in Honor of Professor Ting Pang-Hsin on his 80th birthday, 630-650. Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press.
2016.. Qiang. In Rint Sybesma et al., Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics, 517-526. Leiden: Brill.
2015. 〈黑水縣沙石多嘉戎語動詞人稱範疇的特點〉. 《語言暨語言學》16. 731-749.
2014. Sino-Tibetan: Part 3 Rgyalrong. In Rochelle Lieber & Pavol Štekauer, The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology, 630-650. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2014. Typology of Generic-Person Marking in Tshobdun Rgyalrong. In Richard VanNess Simmons & Newell Ann Van Auken, Festschrift to Honor South Coblin: Studies in Chinese and Sino-Tibetan Linguistics: Dialect, Phonology, Transcription and Text, 225-248. Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica.
2014. Typology of Generic-Person Marking in Tshobdun Rgyalrong. In Simmons, Richard VanNess & Van Auken, Newell Ann, Festschrift to honor South Coblin: Studies in Chinese and Sino-Tibetan linguistics: Dialect, phonology, transcription and text, 225-248. Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica.
2012. Complementation in Caodeng rGyalrong. Language and Linguistics 13. 471-498.
2007. The irrealis category in rGyalrong. Language and Linguistics 8. 797-819.
2006. 〈嘉戎語動詞的派生形態〉.《民族語文》4. 3-14.
2006. 〈草登嘉戎語的關係句〉.《語言暨語言學》7. 905-933.
2004. Verb-stem variations in Showu rGyalrong. In Lin, Ying-chin et al., Studies on Sino-Tibetan languages: Papers in honor of Professor Hwang-Cherng Gong on His seventieth birthday, 269-296. Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica.
2004. Verb-stem variations in Showu rGyalrong. In Ying-chin Lin et al., Language and Linguistics: Studies on Sino-Tibetan Languages: Papers in Honor of Professor Hwang-Cherng Gong on His Seventieth Birthday, 269-296. Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica.
2003. Phonological profile of Zhongu: A new Tibetan dialect of Northern Sichuan. Language and Linguistics 4. 769-836.
2003. Tani languages. In Graham Thurgood & Randy J. LaPolla, Sino-Tibetan languages, 456-466. London and New York: Routledge.
2003. Variegated tonal developments in Tibetan. In David Bradley & Randy LaPolla & Boyd Michailovsky & Graham Thurgood, Pacific Linguistics: Language Variation: Papers on Variation and Change in the Sinosphere and in the Indosphere in Honour of James A. Matisoff, 35-51. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU.
2003. Caodeng rGyalrong. In Graham Thurgood & Randy LaPolla, Sino-Tibetan languages, 490-502. London and new York: Routledge.
2002. 〈草登嘉戎語與「認同等第」相關的語法現象〉.《語言暨語言學》 3. 79-99.
2000. Stem alternations in Puxi verb inflection. Language and Linguistics 1. 211-232.
2000. Parallelisms in the verb morphology of Sidaba rGyalrong and Guanyinqiao in rGyalrongic. Language and Linguistics 1. 161-190.
1993. Evidentials in Amdo Tibetan. Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology 63. 143-188.
Publications - Books
In press. Tshobdun Rgyalrong spoken texts: With a grammatical Introduction.. Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica.
Jackson T.-S. Sun. 2014. Phonological Profiles of Little-Studied Tibetic Varieties. Language and Linguistics Monograph Series 55. Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica.
Jackson T.-S. Sun. 1993. A historical-comparative study of the Tani branch in Tibeto-Burman. PhD dissertation, University of California at Berkeley.
Jackson T.-S. Sun. 1986. Aspects of the phonology of Amdo Tibetan: Ndzorge Sháme Xra dialect. Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa.