James Huang (Chinese: 黃正德; born 1948) is a Taiwanese-American linguist.

degrees from National Taiwan Normal University in 1971 and 1974, respectively, and in 1982 earned a Ph.D. in linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

[1] In 2016, he was elected an Academician in the Convocation of the Academia Sinica's division of Humanities and Social Sciences.

[6] In 2009, Huang collaborated with Y.-H. Audrey Li and Yafei Li to co-author a Cambridge Syntax Guide spanning the work of the past 25 years in theoretical Chinese syntax.

[7] In 2015, Huang received a Festschrift comprising the work of 21 specialists in Chinese syntax, which is headlined by his own most recent publication on the subject of both synchronic and diachronic approaches to syntactic analyticity in Chinese parametric grammar.