Conference Program
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| All sessions will be held in the Modern Languages building on the U of A campus. Map of the Modern Languages building
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| Chin-chuan Cheng (City University of Hong Kong) Corpus Longevity |
10:00 - 10:15 - Break
| 10:15 - 12:15, Room 302 1a - Syntax Chair: Terry Langendoen (University of Arizona) |
10:15 - 12:15, Room 310 1b - Corpus Symposium Chair: Jun Liu (University of Arizona) |
| Liang Chen (University of Connecticut) A Study of Floating Quantifiers in Chinese |
Hongyin Tao (UCLA) Corpus Linguistics and Emergent Semantics |
| Haiyong Liu (UCLA) The Co-occurrence of Dou with DPs and Yiwencis in Mandarin Chinese |
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| Benjamin Tsou (City University of Hong Kong) Aspects of Linguistic and Cultural Convergence in Chinese Societies: As Seen from LIVAC, a Synchronous Corpus |
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| Barry Chung-Yu Yang (National Tsing Hua University) On the Licensing of Quantification Force |
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Chaofen Sun (Stanford University) A Character Representing Ideas of Different Origin |
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| Jiun-Shiung Wu (University of Texas at Austin) Collectivity, Distributivity and Two Universal Quantifiers in Taiwanese |
12:15 - 2:00 - Lunch
| 2:00 - 3:30, Room 302 2a - Phonology Chair: Dick Demers (University of Arizona)
3:30 - 3:45 - Break |
2:00 - 4:00, Room 310 2b - Corpus Symposium Chair: Muriel Saville-Troike (University of Arizona)
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| 3:45 - 5:15, Room 302 3a - Historical Chair: Hongyin Tao (UCLA)
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4:00 - 4:15 - Break 4:15 - 5:15, Room 310 3b - Computational Chair: Haihua Pan (City University of Hong Kong)
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Saturday, May 18
| 9:00 - 10:30, Room 303 4a - Semantics Chair: Waltraud Paul (EHESS-CNRS) |
9:00 - 10:30, Room 304 4b - Historical Chair: Chaofen Sun (Stanford University) |
| Marie-Claude Paris (Institut Universitaire de France et Universite Denis-Diderot) On comparison in Mandarin Chinese |
Shengli Feng (University of Kansas) Prosodic Morphology meets Prosodic Syntax |
| Zheng-sheng Zhang (San Diego State University) Temporality and Mandarin Perfectivity |
Ning Wang (Beijing Normal University)  |
| Jo-wang Lin (National Chiao Tung University) Selectional Restrictions of Tenses and Temporal Reference of Chinese Bare Sentences |
Jen-i Li (National Taiwan Normal University) The Semantic Change of Two Synonymous Body–part Terms in Chinese: Mian and Lian |
10:30 - 10:45 - Break
| 10:45 - 12:15, Room 303 5a - Functional Chair: Shuanfan Huang (National Taiwan University) |
10:45 - 12:15, Room 304 5b - Syntax Chair: Ke Zou (California State University, Hayward) |
| Yung-O Biq (National Taiwan Normal University) Constructional meaning in the interaction between the classifier ge and post-verbal elements in Mandarin |
Henrietta Yang (University of Texas at Austin) Scrambling in the Mandarin Double Object Construction |
| Wendan Li (U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Clause-Integration in Discourse— Criteria and Mechanisms in Chinese and English |
Chen-Sheng Luther Liu (National Chi-Nan University) The Referentially–Oriented Logophor Ziji–benshen |
| Robert Iljic (EHESS-CNRS) Latent Property and Inferential Modality in Chinese |
Waltraud Paul (EHESS-CNRS) Adjectival modification and related issues in Mandarin Chinese |
12:15 - 2:00 - Lunch
| 2:00 - 3:30, Room 303 6a - Syntax/Acquisition Chair: Thomas Hun-Tak Lee (City University of Hong Kong) |
2:00 - 3:30, Room 304 6b - Functional Chair: Marie-Claude Paris (Institut Universitaire de France et Universite Denis-Diderot) |
| Yu-fen Liou (Michigan State University) On Chinese Temporal Clauses |
Jingmin Fang (Matsuyama University) 
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| Jia-Fei Hung (National Chung Cheng University) The Acquisition of Taiwanese Utterance–Final Question Particles |
Ning Yu (University of Oklahoma) The Eyes for Sight and Mind |
| Shenglan Zhang (University of Southern California) Second Language Acquisition of the Ba-construction in Contemporary Mandarin Chinese |
Chienjer Charles Lin (University of Arizona) Love and Lust in Contemporary Chinese: Linguistic Metaphors and Cultural Models |
3:30 - 3:45 - Break
| 3:45 - 5:15, Room 303 7a - Syntax Chair: Chen-Sheng Luther Liu (National Chi-Nan University) |
3:45 - 5:15, Room 304 7b - Sociolinguistics Chair: Yung-O Biq (National Taiwan Normal University) |
| Ke Zou (California State University, Hayward) Verb–Noun Compounding and Definiteness Effect |
Hsi-Yao Su (University of Texas at Austin) Syntactic Constraints on Code–Switching between Mandarin and Taiwanese: The Interaction between Syntactic and Social Factors |
| Io-Kei Joaquim Kuong (Georgetown University) On existential you in Chinese |
Liwei Gao (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Identity Construction in the use of Electronic Language |
| Qian Gao (Hangzhou University of Commerce) Argument Structure and RVC in Chinese |
Daming Xu (UCLA) and Gao Haiyang (Beijing Language and Culture Univ.) The Response-word Variation in Beijing |
6:30 - 9:00 - Banquet
Dragon's View Restaurant
400 N. Bonita Ave.
Sunday, May 19
| 9:00 - 10:30, Room 303 8a - Functional/Semantics Chair: Randy LaPolla (City University of Hong Kong) |
9:00 - 11:00, Room 304 8b - Phonology/Syntax
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| Sui Sang Mok (The Open Univ. of Hong Kong) Topic Particles in Cantonese— an Independent Grammatical Category |
Zhongwei Shen (University of Massachusetts) The Asymmetry of Perception and Production in Sound Change |
| Shuanfan Huang (National Taiwan University) Doubts about complementation— evidence from spoken Chinese |
Miao-Ling Hsieh (National Taiwan Normal University) Negation Expressed by a Form of Question |
| Danny C-C Chen (Chinese Culture University) A Reanalysis of the Aspectual Guo: is "Experientiality" the Whole Story? |
Ji-Yung Kim (University of Massachusetts) Silent Verbs in Northern Mandarin |