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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:

hujh@cass.org.cn) 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

iacl-26@letsci.wisc.edu .

Shuxiang You

On behalf of the Organizing Committee of IACL-26 & ICCLC-20

mailto:iacl-26@letsci.wisc.edu

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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

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提交信箱：hanyuyan@fudan.edu.cn

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：hanyuyan@fudan.edu.cn

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。

mailto:hanyuyan@fudan.edu.cnmailto:hanyuyan@fudan.edu.cn

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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；

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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

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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：iccpg5@163.com

請填好回執，然後通過電子郵箱寄給我們

電子郵址：iccpg5@163.com

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

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2018/03/10

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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 ifolce4@126.com.

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: ifolce4@126.com

mailto:ifolce4@126.commailto:ifolce4@126.com

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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 clrc@cuhk.edu.hk

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: clrc@cuhk.edu.hkm

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:clrc@cuhk.edu.hkm

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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：guhanyu08@163.com

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

王怀中 wanghzh@snnu.edu.cn

赵学清 xueqingzhao@snnu.edu.cn

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: icfl2018@126.com

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: icfl2018@126.com

mailto:icfl2018@126.com

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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

jobs.gsmi@lionbridge.com

Contact

Resource coordinator Elena Pirttisalo

Email: elena.pirttisalo@lionbridge.com

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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,

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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