Seminars


June 13, 2024

Professor Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai, National Tsing Hua University
Professor Yen-Hui Audrey Li, University of Southern California
Title: Chinese Grammatical Studies: Retrospect and Prospect
Venue: 2/F, Conference Room, Art Museum East Wing, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm (Followed by lunch. Please register.)
Language: Putonghua
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13689642 (in Chinese)
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[Poster](in Chinese)



May 16, 2024

“人文新疆”歷史文學學術講座
Venue: G/F, L1, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Time: 10:30am - 12:30pm
Language: Putonghua
Registration: click here

This seminar is organized by The Bureau of Culture and Tourism of The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China, the China Engagement Office and the T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre.

[Poster](in Chinese)



February 22, 2024

Professor Hilary Chappell, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris
Title: Applicative and Causative Syncretism in Sinitic Languages: A Crosslinguistic Perspective
Venue: 2/F, Conference Room, Art Museum East Wing, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Language: English
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[Poster]



June 26, 2023

Seminar on Silk Road Linguistics
Dr. Alena Pavlova
Title: The Methods of Translation for Sentence-final Particles: Based on a Comparative Analysis of Lao She Tea House
Venue: 2/F, Conference Room, Art Museum East Wing, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Time: 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Language: English
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[Poster]



March 15, 2023

Professor Jackie Yan-Ki Lai, City University of Hong Kong
Title: What Moves Where? On the Flexible Ordering of Chinese Modals and the Nature of Head Movement
Venue: 2/F, Conference Room, Art Museum East Wing, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Time: 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Language: English
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[Poster]



February 23, 2023

Professor FENG Shengli, Beijing Language and Culture University and The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Title: 韻律語法理論和語體語法理論的近年發展——以核心結構和句調變異為例
Venue: 2/F, Conference Room, Art Museum East Wing, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Time: 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Language: Putonghua
Directions

[Poster](in Chinese)



December 16, 2022

Dr. LI Xuan, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Title: 美壩白語體標記xɯ55的語法特點——兼論句法分布與語法化的關係
Venue: 2/F, Conference Room, Art Museum East Wing, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Time: 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Language: Putonghua
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[Poster](in Chinese)



December 15, 2022

1st Seminar, GBA Joint Platform for Linguistics Research and Teaching
Professor CUI Gang, Tsinghua University
Title: 語言作為人類認知和神經的調節機制
Venue: Tencent Meeting: 470-436-528
Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Language: Putonghua

This seminar is organized by the Neurolinguistics Laboratory, Shenzhen University, co-organized by the T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre.

[Poster](in Chinese)



November 22, 2022

Professor Hung Nin Samuel Cheung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Title: 「人語響,文字留痕——語言學和語言學家」張洪年教授座談會
Venue: Yun Chi Hsien, New Asia College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Zoom
Time: 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Language: Cantonese
Registration: click here

This seminar is organized by the New Asia College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, the T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre and the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

[Poster](in Chinese)



March 28, 2019

Academician Jackson Tian Shin Sun, Academia Sinica
Title: Evidentiality As Information-access Marking: Evidence from Tibetic
Venue: Activities Room, 2/F, Art Museum East Wing, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Time: 4:30pm - 5:30pm (Tea reception: 4:00pm)
Language: Putonghua/English
Website: http://www.chi.cuhk.edu.hk/en-gb/events/latest-events/1505-2019-03-28
Directions
This seminar is organized by Office of Academic Links (China) , co-organized by the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, and sponsored by the T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre.

[poster]



March 6, 2019

Professor SHEN Ming, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Title: 晉語古日母字讀[n]的殘跡 (in Chinese)
Venue: Activities Room, 2/F, Art Museum East Wing, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Time: 4:30pm - 5:30pm (Tea reception: 4:00pm)
Language: Putonghua
Website: http://www.chi.cuhk.edu.hk/en-gb/events/latest-events/1488-2019-03-06
Directions
This seminar is organized by Office of Academic Links (China) , co-organized by the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, and supported by the T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre.

[poster](in Chinese)



November 1, 2018

Professor Ryosuke Shibagaki, Nanzan University
Title: The Property of Mandarin Serial Verbs in the Syntax-semantics Interface
Venue: 2/F, Conference Room, Art Museum East Wing, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Time: 4:30pm - 5:30pm (Tea reception: 4:00pm)
Language: English
Directions

[Poster]



October 18, 2018

Professor Meilan Zhang, Hong Kong Baptist University
Title: 文獻比較視閾下之粵語特徵研究
Venue: 2/F, Conference Room, Art Museum East Wing, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Time: 4:30pm - 5:30pm (Tea reception: 4:00pm)
Language: Putonghua

Directions

[Poster](in Chinese)



August 8, 2018

Professor Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai, National Tsing Hua University
Title: 談漢語念力詞的語法化進程
Venue: Room 101, Fung King Hey Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Time: 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Language: Putonghua

This seminar is organized by the CUHK-BLCU Joint Research Centre for Chinese Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, co-organized by the T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre and sponsored by the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

[Poster](in Chinese)



November 10, 2017

Professor C.-T. James Huang, Harvard University and The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Title: Noun Phrase Complement Types, Gapless Relatives, and Finiteness
Venue: 2/F, Activities Room, Art Museum East Wing, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Time: 4:30pm - 6:00pm (Tea reception: 3:45pm)
Language: English
Directions

[Poster]



February 16, 2017

Dr. Nishimura Hideki, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre
Title: 句末成分的語氣詞化探討:以現代漢語副詞“還”為例 (in Chinese)
Venue: 2/F, Conference Room, Art Museum East Wing, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Time: 4:30pm - 6:00pm (Tea reception: 4:00pm)
Language: Putonghua
Directions

[poster](in Chinese)



January 17, 2017

Professor Zhongmin Chen, Fudan University
Title: 從邪牀禪母讀音與古江東方言 (in Chinese)
Venue: 2/F, Conference Room, Art Museum East Wing, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Time: 10:30am - 12:00pm
Language: Putonghua
Directions

[poster](in Chinese)


Sponsor: Li Dak Sum Yip Yio Chin Education Development Fund for Academic Exchange Programme with Institutions in Ningbo/Fudan University



January 16, 2017

Professor Zhongmin Chen, Fudan University
Title: 漢語演變的一中心多層次說及其歷史層次比較法 (in Chinese)
Venue: 2/F, Conference Room, Art Museum East Wing, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Time: 4:30pm - 6:00pm (Tea reception: 4:00pm)
Language: Putonghua
Directions

[poster](in Chinese)


Sponsor: Li Dak Sum Yip Yio Chin Education Development Fund for Academic Exchange Programme with Institutions in Ningbo/Fudan University



November 23, 2016

Professor Rint Sybesma, Leiden University
Title: Finiteness and Chinese
Venue: 2/F, Conference Room, Art Museum East Wing, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Time: 2:30pm - 4:00pm (Tea reception to follow)
Language: English
Directions

[poster]



October 13, 2016

Professor Ian Roberts, University of Cambridge
Title: The Null Subject Parameter in the 21st Century
Venue: 2/F, Activities Room, Art Museum East Wing, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Time: 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Language: English
Directions

[Poster]


You are welcome to attend a related activity, "Workshop on Word Order of Heads", which will be held on October 14, 2016 at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. More information can be found on the website.



August 23, 2016

Professor Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai, National Tsing Hua University
Title: 以Linggle為本的文法教學研究 (in Chinese)
Venue: 2/F, Conference Room, Art Museum East Wing, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Time: 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Language: Putonghua
Directions

[poster](in Chinese)



May 30, 2016

Professor C.-T. James Huang, Harvard University

Title: On the Universality of the Adjunct-complement Distinction in Nominal Structure

Venue: 2/F, Activities Room, Art Museum East Wing, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Time: 4:30pm - 6:00pm (Tea reception: 4:00pm)

Language: English

[Abstract]

This seminar is organized by the T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre and co-organized by the CUHK-BLCU Joint Research Centre for Chinese Linguistics and Applied Linguistics and the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

[Poster]



March 30, 2016 / April 6, 2016 / April 13, 2016

FUN WITH CANTONESE Talk Series [Details...]



September 22, 2015

Professor Maki Iida, Hokkaido University
Title: 粵語裏“V到NP”的構式意義以及“到”字的功能擴張特徵 (in Chinese)
Venue: LT4, 2/F, Cheng Yu Tung Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Time: 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Language: Putonghua

[poster](in Chinese)



January 19, 2015

Professor HU Haiqiong, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre
Title: 基於數據庫的出土戰國楚系簡帛文獻音韻研究 (in Chinese)
Venue: LT3, Lee Shau Kee Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Time: 10:00am - 11:15am
Language: Putonghua
This seminar is organized by the T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre and co-organized by the Chinese Linguistics Research Centre, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

[poster](in Chinese)



February 26, 2014

Professor Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai, National Tsing Hua University
Title: An Unselective Binding Account of Universal Quantification in Chinese
Venue: 2/F, Activities Room, Art Museum East Wing, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Time: 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Language: Putonghua
Directions

[poster](in Chinese)



February 13, 2014

Professor John Whitman, The National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics and Cornell University
Title: The Prehead Relative Clause Problem: Noun Modification and Noun Complementation in Northeast Asia
Venue: 2/F, Activities Room, Art Museum East Wing, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Time: 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Language: English
Directions

[poster]



April 10, 2013

Professor SHEN Jiaxuan, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Title: 漢語是名詞型語言 (in Chinese)
Venue: Activities Room, 2/F, Art Museum East Wing, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Time: 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Language: Putonghua
Website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/oalc/CASS_2013
Directions
This seminar is organized by Office of Academic Links (China) and co-organized by the T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre.

[poster](in Chinese)



April 9, 2013

Professor Richard S. Kayne, New York University
Title: Some Thoughts on English one
Venue: 2/F, Activities Room, Art Museum East Wing, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Time: 10:30am - 12:00pm
Language: English
Directions

[poster]



April 8, 2013

Professor Richard S. Kayne, New York University
Title: Comparative Syntax
Venue: 2/F, Activities Room, Art Museum East Wing, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Time: 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Language: English
Directions

[poster]



May 16, 2012

Professor Richard S. Kayne, New York University
Title: Comparative Syntax and English is to
Venue: Swire Hall 2, Fung King Hey Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Time: 11:00am - 12:30pm
Language: English

[poster]



April 26, 2012

Professor Io-Kei Joaquim KUONG, University of Macau
Title: The Grammatical Journey to the East: Étienne Fourmont's Linguae Sinarum Mandarinicae
Venue: Conference Room, 2/F Art Museum East Wing, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Time: 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Language: Putonghua

[poster](in Chinese)