In A Grammar of rGyalrong Marielle Prins describes the phonology, morphology and syntax of the Jiǎomùzú dialects, a variety of the under-researched and threatened rGyalrongic languages of West Sichuan in China.

Marielle Prins, Ph.D. (2011), Leiden University (Holland), works in the field of Tibet Studies. To date she has edited a dictionary, a collection of rGyalrong texts and a language survey and authored several papers on language, identity and social change.