（1）语法化、词类与词类转化、话语回指、句子在线加工、多义性模糊性等 （2）语言类型学、历史语言学、认知语言学等

教育经历
[1] 2012—2016年：德国美因茨大学，比较语言学专业，获博士学位
[2] 2005—2011年：德国美因茨大学，比较语言学（主专业）、通用语言学（副专业）、人类学（副专业），获硕士学位
[3] 1998—2002年：上海理工大学，工业设计专业，获学士学位

工作经历
[1] 2021年9月起：华中农业大学外国语学院教师
[2] 2016—2021年：德国美因茨大学英语与语言学系教师
[3] 2009—2014年：德国美因茨大学英语与语言学系科研助理

论文论著发表：
Sun, Linlin & R. Muralikrishnan. 2021. Play it by ear? An ERP study of Chinese polysemous verb yŏu. Lingua 251. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2020.103014
Sun, Linlin & David Correia Saavedra. 2020. Measuring grammatical status in Chinese through quantitative corpus analysis. Corpora 15 (3), 317–342. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2020.0202
Sun, Linlin. 2020. Flexibility in the parts-of-speech system of Classical Chinese. [Trends in Linguistics]. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110660791
Sun, Linlin & Walter Bisang. 2020. Grammaticalization changes in Chinese. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110563146-014. In Bisang, W. & A. Malchukov (eds.), Grammaticalization Scenarios: Cross-Linguistic Variation and Universal Tendencies (2 vol.), 609–658. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
Bisang, Walter, Andrej Malchukov, Iris Rieder, Linlin Sun, Marvin Martiny & Svenja Lüll. 2020. Position paper: Universal and areal patterns in grammaticalization. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110563146-001. In Bisang, W. & A. Malchukov (eds.), Grammaticalization Scenarios: Cross-Linguistic Variation and Universal Tendencies (2 vol.), 1–88. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
Bisang, Walter, Andrej Malchukov, Iris Rieder & Linlin Sun. 2020. Measuring Grammaticalization: A Questionnaire. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110563146-002.In Bisang, W. & A. Malchukov (eds.), Grammaticalization Scenarios: Cross-Linguistic Variation and Universal Tendencies (2 vol.), 89–104. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
Sun, Linlin & Kasper Boye. 2019. The grammatical-lexical distinction in Chinese aspectual markers. Studies in Language 43 (3), 688-714. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.18006.sun
Sun, Linlin. 2015. Flexibility in the parts-of-speech system of Classical Chinese: An empirical research based on six Classical Chinese texts. Mainz, Germany: University of Mainz Dissertation.
Sun, Linlin. 2011. A neurophysiological investigation of the Chinese reflexive Ziji. A case in point of Long-distance Binding and Blocking Effect. Mainz, Germany: University of Mainz Master Thesis.
Schumacher, Petra B., Walter Bisang & Linlin Sun. 2011. Perspective in the Processing of the Chinese Reflexive ziji: ERP Evidence. In Hendrickx, I., S. Lalitha Devi, A. Branco & R. Mitkov (eds.), Anaphora Processing and Applications, vol. 7099, 119-131. Heidelberg: Springer. (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-25917-3)

国际会议论文：
Bisang, Walter, Andrej Malchukov, Linlin Sun, Iris Rieder, Marvin Martiny, Svenja Lüll & Arne Nagels. 2019. Cross-linguistic trends in grammaticalization scenarios: a preliminary quantitative assessment. Paper presented at the 13th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT), Pavia, Italy.
Sun, Linlin. 2018. Einfluss des „Topiks“ auf anaphorische Verbindung. Paper presented at the Linguistisches Kolloquium of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Nov. 12, 2018), Mainz, Deutschland.
Sun, Linlin & David Correia Saavedra. 2017. Measuring Grammaticalization in Chinese. Paper presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), Zürich, Switzerland.
Sun, Linlin. 2017. Flexibilität der Wortarten im klassischen Chinesischen. Paper presented at the 1st conference of Typologie und Feldforschung: Vielfaltslinguistik. Leipzig, Deutschland.
Sun, Linlin & Walter Bisang. 2015. Basic word order and precategoriality in classical Chinese—new evidence for SVO. Paper presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), Leiden, The Netherlands.
Sun, Linlin & Walter Bisang. 2014. Precategoriality in classical Chinese between Construction Grammar and metaphor. Paper presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europae (SLE), at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.
Schumacher, Petra B. & Linlin Sun. 2011. Perspective in the Processing of the Chinese Reflexive ziji: ERP Evidence. Paper presented at the 8th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC), Faro, Portugal.