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International Association of Chinese Linguistics
Volume 26, number 1 February 2018
Dear IACL Members,
It's time for our association to nominate a new Vice
President and 7 new Executive Committee members. A
slate of 8 candidates has been come up with for the
positions of 2018-2020. The Executive Committee has
approved all of these candidates who are nominated
and seconded by members of the Nomination
Committee. We are including a slate of nominees for
your consideration, along with brief biographical
sketches for each of them. If you wish to nominate
someone else, please make sure the secretariat (IACL,
c/o Prof. Jianhua Hu, Institute of Linguistics, Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences, No. 5, Jianguo Mennei
Dajie, Beijing, 100732, China; e-mail:
[email protected]) will receive the nomination no later
than March 1, 2018.
In this issue
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In order to be included in the election, a member must be nominated separately by at
least 10 members of the association in writing. For your information, here in the
following is a list of the outgoing 2015-2017 Executive Committee members: Carine
Yiu Yuk-man, Song Chenqing, Victor Junnan Pan, Takashi TAKEKOSHI, Wu Fuxiang,
Hsieh Feng-fan, and Heungsoo Park.
Thank you very much for your attention. We look forward to hearing from you soon.
Jianhua Hu
Executive Secretary of IACL
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Nominees’ Biographical Sketches
Candidate for the Vice President Position
Hongming ZhANG 張洪明 received
his BA & MA in Chinese from Fudan
University in Shanghai (1981 & 1984), and
his MA & Ph.D. in linguistics from University
of California at San Diego (1990 & 1992).
Prior to joining the faculty of University of
Wisconsin-Madison in 1994, he taught at
Fudan University (1984-87), San Diego Mesa
College (1990-92), and National University of
Singapore (1992-94). He is now a professor
and the director of the Chinese Language &
Linguistics Program at UW-Madison. He is
the recipient of Chair Professor of the Global
Experts Recruitment Program 千人計劃特聘
講 座 教 授 , Chang Jiang Scholar Chair
Professor 長江學者講座教授, Chern Shiing-
shen Chair Professor 陳省身講席教授, and the
honorary director of Linguistics Institute at
Nankai University. He also served the
International Association of Chinese
Linguistics as its executive secretary for 14
years (2000-2014), and is presently the
executive editor of International Journal of
Chinese Linguistics (John Benjamins
Publishing Company), the book series editor
of Routledge Studies in Chinese Linguistics
(Routledge), and the editor of the volume of
Phonology and Poetic Prosody of the 3rd
Edition Encyclopedia of China (The
Encyclopedia of China Press). His main
research interests lie in the interface theory of
syntax-phonology, historical linguistics,
prosodic phonology, poetic prosody, and
teaching Chinese as a foreign language. His
(co)-authored/-edited/-translated books
include Syntax-Phonology Interface:
Argumentation from Tone Sandhi in Chinese
Dialects (Routledge, 2017), Tonal Prosody in
Yongming Style Poems (Nankai University
Press, 2015), Linguistics Abroad (World
Publishing Corporation, two volumes, 2011 &
2013), Linguistics in China (World Publishing
Corporation, two volumes, 2010 & 2014),
Interface Studies between Literature and
Languages (Nankai University Press, 2008),
Linguistics and its Application in Language
Teaching (Hong Kong Institute of Education,
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2003), and translation of Grammata Serica
Recensa (Shanghai Lexicographical
Publishing House, 1997). His recently
published journal articles and book chapters
include "Chinese Linguistics in North
America", in Encyclopedia of Chinese
Language and Linguistics, vol. 1, Brill (2017);
“The Foreign Learners and the Teaching
Strategies of Classical Chinese”, in
International Journal of Chinese Language
Education, no. 1 (co-author, 2017); “On the
Origin of Chinese Tonal Prosody:
Argumentation from a Case Study of Shen
Yue’s Poems”, in The Journal of Chinese
Literature and Culture, vol. 2, No. 2 (2015);
“A New Approach to Chinese Poetic Prosody:
the Case of Pair-wise Tonal Contrasts in Three
Yongming Collections”, in Chinese Literature:
Essays, Articles, Reviews, vol. 37 (co-author,
2015); and “Middle Chinese Phonology and
Qieyun”, in The Oxford Handbook of Chinese
Linguistics (co-author, 2015).
Candidates for the Positions of the Executive Committee
Kengo CHIBA 千葉謙悟 is currently an
associate professor in the Faculty of
Economics at Chuo University, Japan. He
received both his Master’s degree in literature
in 2002 and Ph.D. in 2007 from Waseda
University. His dissertation entitled Chinese
Language in the Late Qing Period and the
Eastern-Western Cultural Exchanges revealed
how neologisms created in modern China and
Japan influenced mutually and contributed to
the formation of modern Chinese lexicon.
With financial support from Grant-in-Aid for
Publication of Scientific Research Results
from the Japan Society for the Promotion of
Science (JSPS), he published a monograph
entitled Linguistic and Cultural Exchanges
Between East and West on the Chinese
Language (2010), which was awarded the
39th Memorial Prize of Dr. Kindaichi
Kyosuke. Adding to his lexical approach, his
interests have expanded to historical
phonology in Ming-Qing Chinese, especially
chronological changes in the Mandarin
language. His recent research analyzes the
phonetic systems that appeared in Western
materials in some European languages such as
French, Italian, and Latin. He was a visiting
scholar at the Center for Chinese Studies,
University of California, Berkeley between
2015 and 2017 with support from the Chuo
University Overseas Research Program. His
papers have been published in various
refereed journals, such as Chuugoku Gogaku
(Bulletin of the Chinese Linguistic Society of
Japan), Riyu Xuexi yu Yanjiu (Journal of
Japanese Language Study and Research), and
Kai Pian. He has served as secretariat (2012–
2014) and a member of the Steering
Committee of Annual Conference (2014–
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present) of the Chinese Linguistic Society of
Japan. In the field of Chinese pedagogy, he
co-authored the Practical Chinese-Japanese
Dictionary (Sanseido, 2008) and two
rudimentary textbooks for college students
(Cengage Learning, 2009; Asahi Press, 2013).
He has also served as a council person at the
Society for Testing Chinese Proficiency in
Japan since 2012.
Hin Tat CHEUNG 張顯達 is currently
Professor and Head of the Department of
Linguistics and Modern Language Studies,
and Director of the Center for Research on
Linguistics and Language Studies at the
Education University of Hong Kong. His
primary research interest is on how children
identify language specific properties when
acquiring their first language. He also
conducts research in examining the course of
language development in atypically
developing children as well as those who are
socially disadvantaged. Findings from this
line of investigation have been transferred to
clinical applications. He was previously
Director of the Audio-Visual Educational
Center (2001-2006), Director of the Graduate
Institute of Linguistics (2007-2009) of
National Taiwan University (NTU), and the
President of the Linguistics Society of Taiwan
(2007-2009). He received Excellence in
Teaching Awards five times while he was
teaching at NTU. For the promotion of corpus
research in language learning and
development, he has constructed two publicly
accessible corpora - Taiwan Corpus of Child
Mandarin (TCCM,
http://tccm.corpus.eduhk.hk/), which holds
more than 300 one-hour spontaneous child
language samples, and LTTC-ELC
(http://www.lttcelc.org.tw/), a digital archive
of more than 12,000 ESL writing samples at
intermediate and high-intermediate levels
collected in Taiwan.
Xiufang DONG 董 秀 芳 is a full
professor in the Department of Chinese
Language and Literature at Peking University.
She received from Sichuan University her
Master’s degree in 1997 and Ph.D. in 2001.
From August of 1999 to January of 2001, she
studied in the Department of Linguistics at
Harvard University as a Harvard-Yenching
visiting fellow. Her research interests include
lexicalization, grammaticalization, semantic
change, morphology, syntax, discourse, etc.
She has published three monographs:
Cihuihua: Hanyu Shuangyinci de Yansheng
he Fazhan [Lexicalization: The origin and
Evolution of Chinese Disyllabic Words ] (first
edition in 2002; revised edition in 2011),
which received several prizes including the
Award for Outstanding Achievement in
Scientific Research of Higher Education from
the Ministry of Education of the People's
Republic of China in 2015 , the Sixth Hu
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Sheng Award for Young Scholars in 2012 and
the Distinguished Young Linguists Award in
2004 from Chinese Social Science Academy;
Hanyu de Ciku yu Cifa [Chinese Lexicon and
Morphology] (first edition in 2004, second
edition in 2016); Hanyu Cihuihua he Yufahua
de Xianxiang yu Guilü [Phenomena and
Regularities of Lexicalization and
Grammaticalization in Chinese] (2017). She
has also edited a textbook entitled Yuyanxue
Yinlun [Introduction to Linguistics] (2017,
coauthored with Zhang Heyou). She has
published more than 90 papers, mostly in
prestigious linguistic journals in China. She
was awarded the title of ‘New Century
Excellent Talent’ in 2013 and the title of
‘Young Changjiang (Yangtze river) Scholar’
in 2016 by the Ministry of Education of the
People's Republic of China. Her service to the
field of linguistics includes membership on
the editorial board of two journals: Language,
Communication, and Culture (Russia) and
Yuyanxue Luncong (Essays on Linguistics,
China), and refereeing for grant proposals,
conferences, and many linguistic journals.
She was elected to the Executive Committee
of Chinese Historical Linguistics Society in
2017.
Tae Eun KIM 金兑垠 is an assistant
professor in the Institute of Language and
Information Studies at Yonsei University in
Seoul, Korea. She received her Master’s
degree from Ewha Womans University in
Seoul, Korea in 2002, and earned another
Master’s degree from University of
Wisconsin-Madison in the United States in
2009 and Ph.D. in 2012. Her dissertation
entitled A study of Mandarin loanwords:
Lexical stratification, adaptation, and factors,
which presents a comprehensive model for
Mandarin loanword adaptation and provides
additional knowledge of Chinese lexicology.
Her research interests are Chinese phonology,
Chinese phonetics, Chinese lexicology, and
Chinese pedagogy. She has worked on various
topics related to her research areas, and
published many papers as follows: A study on
L3(the third language) acquisition researches
conducted in Korea and China – A focus on
the current conditions and results of
researches(2017d), A study on the
morphemization of meaningless syllables in
Mandarin phonetic loans(2017c), A study on
the current curriculum of teaching profession
in college education: A focus on the subjects
offered in department of Chinese language
and literature(2017b), A study on the
arguments about phoneticism in China’s
Modern Era(2017a), A discussion on the
ambiguity of error analysis(2016d), A study of
the relationship between inputs in the
textbook and the learners’ outputs(2016c), A
study on the meaning and usage of yinggai in
modern Chinese by analyzing the examples
from the BCC corpus(2016b), and A study on
the Verb-Object collocation of Korean
learners of Chinese: A focus on the analyses
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of low-intermediate learners’ writings(2016a).
She has served not only as a member of the
executive committee of Constitution of the
Society for the Research of Chinese Language
and Literature, but also as a member of the
executive committee of Constitution of Korea
Association of Chinese Linguistics in Korea.
Recently, she won a citation from the Minister
of Education in Korea for her research related
to Chinese pedagogy in 2017 and received a
Best Paper Award from the Korea Association
of Chinese Language and Literature in 2016.
Huei-ling LAI 賴惠玲 is a distinguished
professor in the Department of English at
National Chengchi University (NCCU). With
a two-year fellowship from Fulbright
Foundation, and a three-year fellowship from
Ministry of Education in Taiwan, she received
from the The University of Texas at Austin her
Ph.D. in linguistics in 1995. Her dissertation
entitled Rejected Expectations: The Scalar
Particles CAI and JIU in Mandarin Chinese
demonstrated her strong interest in meaning of
language. The dissertation was published by
The Commercial Press in 2014. After getting
back to the position at NCCU, she has been
working on Hakka language from both micro
and macro perspectives, with an aim to
establish Taiwan Hakka grammar in the
multiple linguistic and cultural Taiwan
society. In those years, her research endeavors
has developed to encompass three aspects:
cognitive semantics and Hakka grammar,
cognitive semantics and its applications to
other language analyses and language
teaching, and transdisciplinary studies
incorporating computational techniques and
calculation for linguistic studies and digital
humanities. The main research issues range
from semantic relatedness of polysemy, and
lexicalization and grammaticalization, to
construction grammar and metaphor and
metonymy, and their applications. She has
published papers in Linguistics, Journal of
Chinese Linguistics, Language and
Linguistics, Concentric: Studies in
Linguistics, Taiwan Journal of Linguistics,
Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies,
Bulletin of the Institute of History and
Philology Academia Sinica, Journal of
Pragmatics, Language Awareness, and
International Review of Applied Linguistics
in Language Teaching. She has also been
constructing Taiwan Hakka Corpus for the
purpose of providing a platform not only for
documentation and preservation of Hakka
languages but also for linguistic analyses and
other applications. She was elected to the
Executive Committee of the Linguistic
Society of Taiwan and served as the Vice
President for two years (2006-2007). Her
service to the field of linguistics includes
committees for language and linguistics-
related evaluations of Ministry of Science and
Technology and Ministry of Education, and
referees for grant proposals, conferences, and
journals.
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Xiaohong ‘Sharon’ WEN 温晓虹 is a
Full Professor of Applied Linguistics and
Chinese Language Acquisition at the
University of Houston. She has research
interests in learner factors, second language
acquisition, and research-based curriculum
and instruction. Her recent publications
include four books: Studies on Learning and
Teaching Chinese as a Second Language (in
press 2018); Teaching Chinese as a Second
Language: Curriculum Design and
Instruction, 2015; Studies of Chinese
Language Acquisition by English Speakers,
2012; Chinese as a Second Language
Acquisition and Instruction, 2008. Her
research publications also include more than
thirty articles in refereed journals. Her L2
Chinese motivation instrument has been
adapted and used in other language studies
such as ESL, Spanish, and Arabic. Five of her
empirical studies have been reprinted and
translated into different languages such as
Chinese and Korean. She is a Principal
Investigator for several significant grants
from internal and federal sources.
Xiaohong Wen is the director of Chinese
Studies at UH, building the program from one
language class into an interdisciplinary
studies program that offers a B.A. degree in
Chinese Studies, a minor, a faculty-led study
abroad program, annual scholarships, and the
Startalk Texas Teacher Program. She is a
Guest Seat Professor at four universities in
China and Taiwan (北京语言大学, 中山大学
,海南师范大学, 中原大学 ). She has
received several awards including the Sydney
B. Karofsky Teaching Prize from Bowdoin
College, the Lence Award for Teaching
Excellence, and the Global Faculty Award
from the University of Houston. She is an AP
Chinese Consultant for the College Board and
currently serving on the AP Chinese
Development Committee. She has been
elected to serve on several editorial, national,
and international boards of directors for
academic associations including CLTA-US,
CLTA-TX, and the International Society for
Chinese Language Teaching (世汉教学学会).
Boping YUAN 袁博平 is a Reader in
Language and Linguistics and a PhD
supervisor at the University of Cambridge,
and he directs the Chinese programme in
Cambridge. He is also Fellow and Director of
Studies in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies,
Churchill College, Cambridge. His research
interests are in linguistic approaches to second
language acquisition and bi-/multi-
lingualism, and he is currently working on
second and third language interfaces between
syntax-semantics, syntax-discourse, syntax-
pragmatics, etc. He has published numerous
papers in refereed international journals as
well as in journals in China, which include:
Language, Linguistics, Transactions of the
Philological Society, Second Language
Research, Studies in Second Language
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Acquisition, Bilingualism: Language and
Cognition, Language Learning, International
Review of Applied Linguistics, EUROSLA
Yearbook, International Journal of
Bilingualism, Chinese Language and
Discourse, Lingua, 《外语教学与研究》,《
世界汉语教学》, 《现代外语》 etc. He is
currently an executive member of the
Executive Committee of the World Chinese
Language Teaching Society, and he also
serves as a member of editorial boards of a
number of international and Chinese
academic journals, which include: Second
Language Research, International Review of
Applied Linguistics, 《外语教学与研究》,《
世界汉语教学》, 《现代外语》 etc.
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Progress Report on
IACL-26& ICCLC-20
The 26th Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics
(IACL-26) & the 20th International Conference on Chinese Language and Culture
(ICCLC-20) will be held on May 4-6, 2018 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
(UW-Madison), one of the most safe and beautiful college campuses in the United
States. On January 10, 2018, the organizers of IACL-26 & ICCLC-20 (Department of
Asian Languages & Cultures / Center for East Asian Studies at UW-Madison) received
all submissions, 510 abstracts for regular conference panels and 69 papers for the
Young Scholar Award (YSA) competition. Besides the paper submissions for the YSA,
there are around 510 English and Chinese abstract submissions, including abstracts
from keynote speakers and invited speakers, among which, there are 154 for syntax and
semantics, 60 for phonology and phonetics, 65 for historical linguistics, 36 for
morphology, 25 for pragmatics, 40 for language acquisition, 34 for cognitive and
functional linguistics, and 96 for other subcategories of Chinese linguistics. In addition
to regular conference panels, IACL-26 will have three special panels, including a forum
on syntax-morphology interface, a panel on sign linguistics, and a workshop about the
International Journal of Chinese Linguistics and the Routledge Studies in Chinese
Linguistics book series. ICCLC-20 will be held concurrently with IACL-26, and the
organizers have received 27 abstract submissions in total. The notifications of
acceptance to IACL-26 & ICCLC-20 will be announced and sent to the authors around
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February 26, 2018. The participants can register at the early bird rate before April 6,
2018 at http://iacling.org/IACL-26/26regform.html, and the contact e-mail address is
Shuxiang You
On behalf of the Organizing Committee of IACL-26 & ICCLC-20
mailto:[email protected]
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Call for Papers
(in due-date order)
汉语句法语义理论研究学术讨论会
2018 年 3 月 31 - 4 月 1 日
復旦大學
一、会议简介
“汉语句法语义理论研究”系列小型学术讨论会,由复旦大学中国语言文学系主
办。采用工作坊模式,每期邀请 20 人以下的专家学者与学术新锐,就某一专题
做深入讨论。主要关注重大的理论问题,也可以是系统性的描写,以前沿性和创
新性为导向,尤其欢迎具有挑战性努力的研究成果。次年将出一本专题论文集,
作为复旦中文系“汉语句法语义理论研究”系列丛书之一。
会议主题
“叙实与事实——汉语语句的蕴涵和预设关系”
二、投稿讯息
诚意邀请学界同仁就相关议题提交论文提要。每篇论文报告时间至少 30 分钟。
提要以中文撰写,5 号字体,不超过 A4 纸一页。
摘要截止
2018/03/01
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提交信箱:[email protected]
联系人:陈振宇。
请注明作者姓名、单位及联系方式。
论文提要截止日期:2018 年 3 月 1 日。经专家评审后,将在 3 月 15 日前发出正
式邀请函。每篇论文只邀请一位作者与会。
会议将推荐优秀论文在 CSSCI 核心集刊《语言研究集刊》上发表,需要推荐论
文的专家请于报名时交付论文完整稿,最后结果由集刊编委会决定。
本次会议不收会议费,提供餐饮,外地代表的往返交通费、会议期间的住宿费,
均由主办方按有关财务规定报销。
三、联系方式
会务联系人:陈振宇
Email:[email protected]
附:叙实与事实问题研究
在哲学上,很早就有关于晦暗与透明的研究,如“他在找麒麟”,说话者并不表
明他是否认为有麒麟存在,这是晦暗性;但“他找到了一只麒麟”,说话者表明
他认为是有麒麟存在的,这是透明性。这其实是一种逻辑蕴涵关系,即当说话者
认为“他找到了一只麒麟”为真时,“存在麒麟”也为真;但当说话者认为“他
在找麒麟”为真时,“存在麒麟”可能为真,也可能为假。
在语言研究中,可以发现更为复杂的情况。叙实性研究关注下面这样的语句:
“他知道李四来了”为真或“他不知道李四来了”为真,都可推出“李四来了”
为真。因此“叙实”动词“知道”构成了逻辑上的预设关系。
“他假装没看见她”为真或“他没有假装没看见她”为真,都可推出“(他)没
看见她”为假。因此“反叙实”动词“假装”也构成了一种与“相反”的预设关
系。
如果不是预设,则是“半叙实”,如“他证明了电磁波的确存在”为真,则可推
出“电磁波的确存在”为真;但“他没有证明电磁波的确存在”为真,“电磁波
的确存在”确实可能为真可能为假的。
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预设的触发语研究,以及预设的取消研究也关心与此类似的问题,如“他孩子病
了”和“他孩子没病”都有存在预设“他有孩子”。但是如果我们看见一个人在
那儿着急,我们猜测“莫非是他孩子病了?”这时我们并不能肯定“他有孩子”
是真是假。
在语言中,还有反事实句(虚拟句),如反事实条件句,“你要多努力的话就好
了”意味着“你多努力”为假。
所有这些现象都与一个关键的问题有关:语句间的蕴涵关系是怎么达成的?是因
为某些语词的作用?是因为构式的意义?是百科知识的产物?还是特定语用推
理的结果?这是一个很有价值的理论问题。
第五屆韻律語法研究國際研討會(ICCPG-V)
第一號通知
2018 年 7 月 14-15 日
復旦大學
一、会议简介
由香港中文大學主辦、復旦大學承辦的“第五屆韻律語法研究國際研討會”將於
2018 年 7 月 14 日至 15 日在復旦大學召開。
韻律語法是語言學的一個新領域,其研究對象為韻律與形態、句法、語體以及文
體等領域之間的互動。會議誠摯邀請世界各國從事韻律語法研究的專家、同仁提
交論文。
會議主題(包括但不限於)
1. 韻律音系的共時、歷時研究;
摘要截止
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2. 韻律形態的共時、歷時研究;
3. 韻律句法的共時、歷時研究;
4. 韻律語體的共時、歷時研究;
5. 韻律文學的共時、歷時研究;
6. 韻律語法的類型學研究;
7. 語言教學和語言習得中的韻律語法研究。
二、投稿讯息
韻律語法青年學者論文獎
韻律語法研究國際研討會每屆會議設立 2~3 名“韻律語法青年學者論文獎”(申
請者需為 40 歲及以下的青年學者及在讀碩士、博士生),旨在鼓勵和培養更多
的青年學者致力於韻律語法研究。
摘要提交
1. 每人作為獨立作者或第一作者只可提交一篇論文摘要;
2. 摘要中請注明作者姓名、單位、研究領域、通訊位址、電子郵箱、聯繫電話;
3. 摘要語言可以使用中文或者英文。中文請用小四號宋體或 SimSun 字體;英文
請用 12 號 Times New Roman 字體,摘要長度不超過一頁 A4 紙;
4. 請將摘要一式兩份(WORD 和 PDF 格式各一份)發至會務組郵箱 :
5.“韻律語法青年學者論文獎”申請者請將會議論文全文發至會務組郵箱。
審稿制度
本次研討會採用同行匿名評審制度,每份摘要均需接受至少兩位同行的匿名評審,
會務組將於 2018 年 3 月 31 日前以電子郵件方式通知錄用摘要的作者。
會議註冊費
非學生參會人員:人民幣 900 元;學生參會人員 500 元。交通、食宿自理。
重要日期
1. 摘要提交截止日期:2018 年 3 月 9 日
2. 摘要錄用通知日期:2018 年 3 月 31 日
熱忱歡迎您參加本次研討會。請您在 2018 年 3 月 9 日前將以下的回執和論文的
中英文提要(各 300 詞左右,A4 紙一頁。格式參照正式期刊)以電子郵件的方
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式寄給我們。我們將論文匿名評審結果於 3 月 31 日前以電子郵件方式通知錄用
摘要的作者。
三、联系方式
收 件 人:余夢威(15201918354) 丁麗麗(18916905226)
電子郵件:[email protected]
請填好回執,然後通過電子郵箱寄給我們
電子郵址:[email protected]
通訊位址:上海市邯鄲路 222 號 復旦大學外文學院
“第五屆韻律語法研究國際研討會”會議回執
姓
名
性別 學位 職稱
單位 地址
電話 手機
電子信箱 郵編
論文題目
備注
請在 3 月 9 日之前提交一篇 A4 紙一頁的論文摘要,一式兩份,WORD 和 PDF
各一份。
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The Fourth International Forum on Linguistics and Chinese
Education (IFOLCE-4)
July 6-8, 2018
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Co-organized with
Stanford University
http://www.ifolce.org/
Meeting Description
The International Forum on Linguistics and Chinese Education (IFOLCE) is organized
as an annual conference dedicated to exploring and promoting applications of cutting-
edge linguistic research within different frameworks in Teaching Chinese as a Second
Language. The establishment of IFOLCE is a joint-effort of a group of colleagues of
the field from eight universities in cities of United States, the city of Beijing, and Hong
Kong. Debuting in 2015, the IFOLCE annual conference is to be held rotationally
among the three locations.
It has been recognized for a long time that linguistic studies have an essential role to
perform in second language teaching. As observed in the great tradition pioneered by
Yuen Ren Chao and others, for its robust development, Chinese L2 teaching should be
bottomed on a solid basis of Chinese linguistics. With such an understanding, IFOLCE
is intended to serve as a premier forum, inviting scholars from around the world to share
insightful research and new advances in the domain of interest.
Call for papers
Theme: Register Grammar and Register Teaching
Register will influence grammar, and different registers have different grammars. It is
emphasized by more and more researchers that linguists should take a new perspective
of register grammar to look into linguistic ontology and L2 teaching. Now that both
elementary and advanced Chinese teaching have been challenged, more researches on
register grammar and teaching theory are imminent. This forum focuses on register
摘要截止
2018/03/10
http://www.ifolce.org/
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grammar, aiming at promoting researches on register grammar and teaching theories,
teaching methods and teaching contents. The emphasis of this forum is thought-
provoking discussions and effective practices of register teaching, aiming at improving
ontology study of Chinese grammar and L2 teaching.
Topics (including but not limited to):
1. Studies of ontology and teaching practices of register grammar
2. Applications of register grammar, especially in teaching
3. Theories, methods and techniques of register teaching (including register teaching as
L1 in primary and secondary education and register teaching as L2)
4. The history and current status of register study (including register teaching as L1 in
primary and secondary education and register teaching as L2)
5. New developments and new discoveries on register, genre, styles and other related
subjects (linguistics, literature, Cognitive, psychological studies, social studies), and
their relations with Chinese teaching (L1 and L2)
Sun Dejin Young Scholar Theses Award (SYSTA):
This award is firstly offered as an encouragement to young scholars who wish to devote
themselves to the study of teaching Chinese as a second language, a field in which Dr.
Dejin Sun was especially interested in, and to which he has made numerous important
contributions. The award is an annual prize in the amount of HK $ 2400, donated by
the funding members of the Professors of IFOLCE.
Eligibility
1. The applicant must be under 45 years of age (including 45) in the year of the
conference; either with a doctor degree received not more than 6 years ago (including
6 years), or without a doctor degree.
2. Each participant is required to submit a full paper of no more than 20 pages
(singlespaced) in length and the paper should be submitted before March 10, 2018.
All submissions for the SYSTA competition must be original papers that have not
been published or accepted for publication, nor presented at a major conference and
appeared in its proceedings. Please list “SYSTA” as the first item in the list of
keywords.
3. A maximum of 3 finalists will be selected, and each will be invited to the forum to
give an oral presentation at a special session organized for this purpose. The authors
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will be honored at the annual conference and presented with a prize or an award
certificate.
Abstract Submission:
1. Two pages in Microsoft Word Format:
(1) Page 1: the title of the paper, 3-4 keywords, and the author's name, affiliation, and
contact information (including email);
(2) Page 2: abstract (including the title of the paper but it shall be anonymous to ensure
unbiased reviews). Abstracts in English or Chinese should have at least 800 words
(references unaccounted). Abstracts should include important arguments and
examples (or other essential data or diagrams). Basic discussions are also required.
Full papers are highly encouraged.
2. Abstracts can be written in either Chinese or English, with English font size 12 pt or
Chinese Song font “small 4”;
3. Each person may submit no more than one single-authored or first-authored abstract
in addition to one joint-authored abstract.
4. All abstracts should be submitted by email to [email protected].
Important Dates:
1. Abstract submission deadline: March 10, 2018.
2. Notice of acceptance (by email): April 7, 2018 (on a first-come-first-served basis:
earlier submissions mean earlier reviews and notices).
Registration Fee:
Registration fee: HK $ 800 per person, and HK $ 400 for students.
Registration fee will be non-refundable. Conference materials as well as the lunch and
dinner will be provided. Participants shall bear all other expenses incurred.
Contact
Fax: (852) 2603 7989
Email: [email protected]
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The 4th Inter-Regional Forum on Dialectal Grammar
June 15-16, 2018
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/clrc/irf/
Meeting Description
The Inter-Regional Forum on Chinese Dialectal Grammar (IRF) was initiated by The
Chinese University of Hong Kong and Sun Yat-sen University in 2015 and extended
its partnership with Fudan University in 2017, which has become an academic event
organized rotationally by these three institutions as a platform intended to foster
research on dialectal grammar under a comparative approach, focusing on southeastern
Chinese dialects like Yue and Wu dialects, to promote inter-regional studies, and to
strengthen intellectual exchange and dialogue among researchers from different regions.
The Forum is named Bok2 Hok6 (in Cantonese) or Bóxué (in Mandarin) in Chinese,
which literally means "learning extensively". This phrase is both shared by the mottos
of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sun Yat-sen University, and Fudan
University and may symbolize a bridge between these three campuses. Under the spirit
of learning extensively, it is hoped that the Forum can serve as a platform for
comparative Chinese dialectal grammar, fostering innovative ideas in the field of
comparative studies.
Call for papers
The 4th Inter-Regional Forum on Chinese Dialectal Grammar will be held on June 15-
16, 2018 at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Interested colleagues are cordially
invited to submit an abstract for presentation. We invite abstracts for submission on
studies of the grammatical properties of nominal structures mainly in the southeastern
dialects like Yue, Hakka, Min, and Wu, with some focus on definiteness and specificity
of nominals in these dialects. Talks will be at least 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes
for discussion.
摘要截止
2018/04/02
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/clrc/irf/
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1) All submitted abstracts are written in Chinese and limited to one single-spaced A4
page, with 1-inch margin all around. Use font size 12 throughout. Abstracts in English
are also accepted.
2) Please submit ONE anonymous version of your abstract in both DOC and PDF by
email at [email protected]
3) Please provide the following information in the email: (1) Address, (2) Name, (3)
Email address, (4) Affiliation, (5) Title of the abstract, and (6) Title of the author. We
will accept at most one single-authored work AND one joint-authored work by an
individual.
4) All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously. Only those abstracts that are accepted
can be chosen for presentation.
Important Dates
Submission Deadline: April 2, 2018 (Monday)
Notice of Acceptance: April 30, 2018 (Monday)
No registration is needed. All are welcome!
A selected number of papers will be accepted for publication in a special volume of
Current Research in Chinese Linguistics (ISSN 1726-9245) based on their merit.
Contact
Fax: (852) 2603 7989
Email: [email protected]
Supporting team: Mian Yee-ting CHAM, Eppie Cheng WANG
Postal address: T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre
Institute of Chinese Studies
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, New Territories
Hong Kong
mailto:[email protected]
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第十四届全国古代汉语学术研讨会
2018 年 8 月中旬
陕西师范大学
一、会议简介
第十四届全国古代汉语学术研讨会拟于 2018 年 8 月中旬在陕西师范大学召开。
会议由中国社会科学院语言研究所和陕西师范大学共同主办,陕西师范大学文学
院承办。
全国古代汉语学术研讨会是一个以古代汉语为研究对象的综合性学术会议,欢迎
学者就文字、语音(音韵)、词汇(训诂)、语法等各个方面进行交流。本次会
议不收取会务费,交通和住宿费用自理。
二、投稿讯息
有意参加本次会议的学者请提交论文提要(A4 纸一页以内)两份,一份写明姓
名、单位、职称、通讯地址、电子邮箱等信息,另一份不署名。论文提要请于 2018
年 4 月 30 日前发往本次会议专用邮箱:[email protected]
论文提要经学术委员会审阅后,将于 2018 年 6 月 15 日前向录用论文的作者发出
正式邀请函,7 月 20 日前请提交回执和正式论文。
会后,主办方将遴选部分论文提交中国社会科学院语言研究所历史语言学研究一
室主办的《上古汉语研究》发表。
三、联系方式
摘要截止
2018/04/30
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8th International Conference on Formal Linguistics
November 23-25, 2018
Hangzhou, China
Meeting Description
The 8th International Conference on Formal Linguistics (ICFL-8) will be held at
Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, on November 23-25, 2018. It is jointly sponsored
by School of International Studies at Zhejiang University, School of Foreign languages
at Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, and Department of Linguistics and
Modern Languages at Chinese University of Hong Kong.
The International Conference on Formal Linguistics (ICFL) is a biennial international
conference organized by the Chinese Association of Formal Linguistics, which is
affiliated with China Association for Comparative Studies of English and Chinese. The
conference has been held at various prestigious institutions in China since 2001, and
has become a major event in China in which scholars and students from all over the
world discuss their latest proposals in the field of formal linguistics. It has greatly
promoted the study of formal linguistics both in and outside China, and helped
communication among researchers on various aspects of their work.
Call for papers
ICFL-8 invites submissions of papers in any field of formal linguistics, including syntax,
semantics, phonology, morphology, child language and language acquisition, and
biolinguistics. Papers about the interfaces among various components of the language
faculty are particularly welcome. Young scholars, including graduate students, are
strongly encouraged to report their findings.
Submissions can be written and presented in English or in Chinese. We encourage the
use of English if possible for better communication with non-Chinese speakers.
Important Dates
1) Deadline for abstract submission: June 30, 2018
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2) Notification of acceptance: September 1, 2018
3) Conference dates: November 23, 2018 - November 25, 2018
Submission Guidelines
1) Abstracts should be written in English (Times New Roman, 12) or in Chinese (Song
font, 12) and limited to one page (A4) in length, including examples and (selected)
references.
2) Authors should submit two copies of their abstracts: one anonymous copy in PDF
format, and the other in MS Word format with the author's information including name,
affiliation and email address.
3) Abstracts should be submitted to the conference email address: [email protected]
Registration
1) Rates: RMB ¥800 for non-students, RMB ¥400 for students.
2) The registration fee will cover expenditure for invited speakers, conference packs,
facilities, service, tea breaks, etc.
3) The conference adopts an early payment system for registration. Authors are
assigned a time for presentation only after registration fee is paid online. Contact us if
you have a problem with the early payment.
Conference Organizing Committee (In alphabetical order)
CHENG, Gong, Zhejiang University
GU, Gang, Tianjin Normal University
HE, Chuansheng, Hunan University
HU, Jianhua, Institute of Linguistics, CASS
HUA, Dongfan, Shanghai International Studies University
LEE, Thomas Hun-tak, Chinese University of Hong Kong
LI, Bing, Nankai University
NING, Chunyan, Tianjin Normal University
PAN, Haihua, Chinese University of Hong Kong
PAN, Victor Junnan, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7
SHEN, Yuan, Fudan University
SI, Fuzhen, Beijing Language and Culture University
TANG, Sze-Wing, Chinese University of Hong Kong
TSAI, Wei-Tien Dylan, Taiwan Tsing Hua University
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WEN, Binli, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
WU, Yaqing, Hunan University
XU, Jie, University of Macau
YANG, Xiaolu, Tsinghua University
ZHANG, Hongming, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Contact
Telephone Enquiry: +86 18301016953 (Mr. HU Yehao)
Email: [email protected]
mailto:[email protected]
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Job Openings (in due-date order)
University/Organization Lionbridge Technologies Inc.
Machine Intelligence team
Job Location Telecommute
Web Address http://www.lionbridge.com/
Job Title Language Engineers/Linguists for miscellaneous
languages
Specialty Area
Language Specialty
Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics;
General Linguistics
Chinese, Mandarin; Chinese, Yue
Description
Join our multi-cultural team working on the cutting edge Machine Intelligence projects!
We are looking for linguists and computational linguists native in the following
languages: Chinese, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean,
Malay, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai for different projects.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in general linguistics, computational linguistics, or
related
- Strong linguistic comprehension
- Experience of working with language data and the ability to help create, categorize,
audit, and improve lexical data. - Excellent grammatical skills in the native language
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- Great attention to detail while working efficiently
- Good organizational and analytical skills
- Good communication skills
- Excellent English skills, other language skills are a plus
- Possibility to work on freelancer basis
- Availability: full time or part-time
Project schedule: differs from project to project. Some of them are stating in the near
future while others are scheduled to start in 2018.
Different formats of work are in question: work on some projects can be done remotely,
while others require relocation.
Please send us your complete resume, including your availability, salary wish and
current location. If your native language is not on the list but you are interested in
freelance linguistics related work - please send us your application. We are starting new
projects on regular basis.
Lionbridge is the leading provider of translation, development, language and testing
solutions that enable clients to create, release, manage and maintain their technology
applications and Web content globally. We are looking for candidates who are
passionate about language technology and SW engineering, quality and delighting the
customer. If you are interested in joining our team, we would love to hear from you!
To Apply
Deadline
28-Feb-2018
Application email
Contact
Resource coordinator Elena Pirttisalo
Email: [email protected]
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University/Organization Hong Kong Baptist University
Job Location Hong Kong
Web Address http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/
Job Title Professor / Associate Professor / Assistant Professor
(PR226/17-18)
Specialty Areas General Linguistics
Description
The Department of English Language and Literature at Hong Kong Baptist University
intends to make two open-rank appointments in support of its Language and
Communication Studies curriculum.
Specifically, applicants are required to have a proven track record of excellence in
teaching and research in the following areas of linguistics: a) language and technology;
b) Hong Kong English and regional language varieties; and c) gender and intercultural
communication in the Asian context. Cluster hires in these specific areas of strength
may be favorably considered.
The appointees should teach at range effectively, including both core and electives
courses in the department’s undergraduate curriculum, the ‘double degree’
undergraduate programme in English and English Language Teaching, general
education courses and, where appropriate, the taught MA programme in Language
Studies (MALS). They will also be expected to supervise undergraduate honours
project theses, as well as to recruit and direct top-quality, international PhD candidates
in support of the department’s on-going research postgraduate studies programme.
Applicants should possess a PhD degree in Linguistics/Applied Linguistics and
exercise academic leadership when conducting world-class research of impact,
including evidence of having acquired publicly funded grants, demonstrating
internationally benchmarked achievement in their areas of research specialisation, and
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a strong and active research publication programme (including forthcoming peer-
reviewed books and journal articles in reputable venues). All appointees should possess
commensurate knowledge at-depth in their areas of research expertise, as well as ready
access to professional networks and capacity-building in these fields.
Appointees at Professor/Associate Professor rank are likewise expected to have
achieved reliably outstanding results in senior service roles supporting quality
assurance, curriculum development, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate student
mentoring. A demonstrated interest in collaborative work in the cross-disciplinary as
well as cross-cultural setting is essential.
Initial appointment will be made on a fixed-term contract of three years commencing
September 2018. Re-appointment thereafter is subject to mutual agreement and
availability of funding.
Remuneration package includes retirement/gratuity benefits, annual leave, medical and
dental scheme, housing assistance and relocation allowance wherever appropriate.
Rank and salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.
To Apply
Deadline
10-Mar-2018
Application URL
http://bit.ly/2mtrtvs
Contact
Personnel Office
Email: pershkbu.edu.hk
http://bit.ly/2mtrtvs
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New Publications
The Semantics of Nouns
Edited by Zhengdao Ye
This volume brings together the latest research on the semantics of
nouns in both familiar and less well-documented languages, including
English, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, the Papuan language Koromu,
the Dravidian language Solega, and Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara
from Australia. Chapters offer systematic and detailed analyses of
scores of individual nouns across a range of conceptual domains,
including 'people', 'places', and 'living things', with each analysis fully
grounded in a unified methodological framework. They not only cover
central theoretical issues specific to the analysis of the domain in
question, but also empirically investigate the different types of
meaning relations that hold between nouns, such as meronymy,
hyponymy, taxonomy, and antonymy.
The collection of studies show how in-depth meaning analysis
anchored in a cross-linguistic and cross-domain perspective can lead
to unexpected insights into the common and particular ways in which
speakers of different languages conceptualize, categorize, and order
the world around them. This unique volume brings together a new
generation of semanticists from across the globe, and will be of
interest to researchers in linguistics, psychology, anthropology,
biology, and philosophy.
Type
Book
Publication Year
2017
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN
9780198736721
Pages
352
Book URL
https://global.oup.com/aca
demic/product/the-
semantics-of-nouns-
9780198736721
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The Development of Prosodic Focus-
marking in Early Bilinguals’ L2: A Study of
Bai-Mandarin Early Bilinguals’ Mandarin
Zenghui Liu
This dissertation investigates the development of prosodic focus-
marking in early bilinguals’ L2 by examining Bai (L1)-Mandarin (L2)
early bilingual’s Mandarin. By investigating Bai-Mandarin early
bilingual children aged from six to thirteen and bilingual adults, we
have established the developmental trajectory and ultimate attainment
of prosodic focus-marking in Bai-Mandarin early bilinguals’
Mandarin. We have found both similarities and differences in the
route and rate of acquisition of prosodic focus-marking between early
bilingual children’s L2 and monolingual children’s L1. Regarding the
developmental route, early bilinguals can use duration earlier than
pitch for focus-marking purposes, similar to the monolinguals, but
their use of prosody to distinguish narrow focus from non-focus is not
earlier than distinguishing focus types, different form the
monolinguals. Regarding the developmental rate, early bilinguals
have not developed similar competence after five years of formal
Mandarin education to that of the monolingual four- to five-year-olds.
Our results thus provide first evidence that early bilingual children’s
L2 acquisition does not completely resemble monolingual children’s
L1 acquisition in prosody, similar to findings on phonological
acquisition but different from findings on lexical and syntactic
acquisition. Furthermore, we have found that Bai-Mandarin early
bilingual adults are highly proficient in using duration and pitch-
related prosodic cues for encoding focus in Mandarin, but they are not
fully Standard Mandarin-like. Our results show that L1 influence (i.e.,
positive and negative transfer) is evident in the bilinguals’ L2
development, which has been widely observed in bilingual language
acquisition in different linguistic domains. Importantly, non-Standard
L2 input might also influence the route and rate of acquisition in early
bilinguals’ L2 development.
Type
Book/Dissertation
Publication Year
2017
Publisher
Netherlands Graduate
School of Linguistics/
Landelijke (LOT)
ISBN
9789460932656
Pages
268
Book URL
https://www.lotpublication
s.nl/the-development-of-
prosodic-focus-marking-
in-early-bilinguals-l2-a-
study-of-bai-mandarin-
early-bilinguals-mandarin-
2
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Production and perception of tones by
Dutch learners of Mandarin
Ting Zou
The function of pitch movements varies across languages. Tone
languages, such as Mandarin Chinese, use pitch configurations to
differentiate between word forms. For non-tone languages (such as
Dutch and English), pitch information is mainly used at the post-
lexical level, e.g., to signal sentential prominence or delimit
prosodic constituents. Therefore, learning to use lexical tones is
always difficult for non-tone second language learners of Mandarin
who are not familiar with using pitch information in a lexically
contrastive way.
This thesis investigates various aspects of production and
perception of tones by beginning and advanced Dutch learners of
Mandarin. Through a series of four experiments, this thesis
examines the developmental path of Dutch learners of Mandarin at
the university level in their acquisition of fine-grained tonal
coarticulation patterns, distribution of attention between segments
and tones, phonological processing of tones and using tonal
information in spoken word recognition. The mechanisms
underlying the learners’ tone acquisition are discussed with
reference to current theories and models of second language
acquisition and spoken word recognition.
Type
Book/Dissertation
Publication Year
2017
Publisher
Netherlands Graduate
School of Linguistics/
Landelijke (LOT)
ISBN
9789460932557
Pages
157
Book URL
https://www.lotpublication
s.nl/production-and-
perception-of-tones-by-
dutch-learners-of-
mandarin
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IACL Officers (2017-2018)
President Vice President
Chinfa Lien 連金發 Danqing Liu 劉丹青
Executive Secretary Vice Executive Secretary
Jianhua Hu 胡建華 Peppina Po-lun Lee 李寶倫
Treasurer Adviser
Chenqing Song 宋晨清 Yuming Li 李宇明
Executive Committee
Giorgio Francesco Arcodia 馬振國, Zhiyun Cao 曹志耘, Doris Chun-yin Chen
陳純音, Yiya Chen 陳軼亞, Gong Cheng 程工, Jingqi Fu 傅京起, Hiroshi
Ishimura 石村廣, Jong-Ho Kim 金琮镐, Chunyu Kit 揭春雨, Jeeyoung Peck
白知永, Ying Ren 任鹰, Gladys Wai-lan Tang 鄧慧蘭, Jiun-Shiung Wu 吳俊
雄, Zhengsheng Zhang 張正生
IACL Scholarship Committee
Chair: Chinfa Lien 連金發
Committee Members: Danqing Liu 劉丹青, Jianhua Hu 胡建華
IACL Nomination Committee
Chair: Danqing Liu 劉丹青
Committee Members: Hiroshi Ishimura 石村廣, Jianhua Hu 胡建華
IACL Membership Drive Committee
Chair: Chenqing Song 宋晨清
Committee Members: Giorgio Francesco Arcodia 馬振國,Zhiyun Cao 曹志耘,
Chun-yin Doris Chen 陳純音,Hiroshi Ishimura 石村廣,Chunyu Kit 揭春雨,
Jeeyoung Peck 白知永,Zheng-sheng Zhang 張正生
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IACL Newsletter Committee
Chair: Peppina Po-lun Lee 李寶倫
Committee Members: Yiya Chen 陈轶亚,Gong Cheng 程工,Jingqi Fu 傅京起,
Jong-Ho Kim 金琮镐,Ying Ren 任鹰,Gladys Tang 鄧慧蘭,Jiun-Shiung Wu 吳
俊雄,Jianhua Hu 胡建華
Editor:
Peppina Po-lun Lee
Assistant Editors:
Xueting Lao
Secretariat Address:
IACL Secretariat
Institute of Linguistics,
Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences.
No. 5, Jian Guo Men Nei Da Jie
Tel: (86-10) 85195392
Membership Address:
IACL c/o Prof. Chenqing Song,
LSG 619, Binghamton University,
4400 Vestal Parkway East, Vestal,
NY 13902.
Fax: (520) 621-1149
E-mail: [email protected]
IACL Newsletter
Volume 26, Number 1, February,
2018
國際中國語言學學會通訊
IACL Newsletter
c/o Prof. Jianhua Hu
Institute of Linguistics,
Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences.
No. 5, Jian Guo Men Nei Da Jie
Beijing, 100732, China