The Seventh International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics
December 22-24, 2000
National Chung Cheng University
Program
Friday, December 22, 2000
12:00-13:45 Registration
13:45-14:00 Opening Ceremony
Chair: James Tai
Welcoming remarks from the President of Chung Cheng University
14:00-15:00 Keynote Speech (I)
Chair: Dah-an Ho
William S.-Y. Wang, "Language Emergence"
15:00-15:30 Break
15:30-17:30 Session 1
Chair: Shou-hsin Teng
15:30-16:00 Chinfa Lien, "Interface Between Construction and Lexical Semantics: A Case Study of the Polysemous Word kek4"
16:00-16:30 Robert Sanders, Satoshi Uehara & Chien-ling Chiang, "A Case of Cognitive Restructuring in the Southern Min and Mandarin of Taiwan"
16:30-17:00 Kathleen Ahrens & Chu-Ren Huang, "TIME IS MOTION in Mandarin Chinese: Parameterizing Conceptual Metaphors"
17:00-17:30 Li-li Chang, "Exploring the Compounding of Transitive Verbs from the Perspective of Cognition."
Saturday, December 23, 2000
08:30-10:00 Session 2
Chair: Chiu-yu Tseng
08:30-09:00 Hintat Cheung & Wun-Tsong Chaou, "A Grammatical Profile of Chinese Children with Specific Language Impairment"
09:00-09:30 James Myers & Jane Tsay, "The Acquisition of the Default Classifier in Taiwanese"
09:30-10:00 Joyce H.-C. Liu & Jane Tsay, "An Optimality-Theoretic Analysis of Taiwanese Consonant Acquisition"
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-12:00 Session 3
Chair: Samuel Hsu Wang
10:30-11:00 Jesse Snedeker & Peggy Li, "The Limits of Observation: Can the Situations in Which Words Occur Account For Cross-linguistic Variation in Vocabulary Composition?"
11:00-11:30 Charles Chien-Jer Lin & Kathleen Ahrens, "Calculating the Number of Senses: Implications for Ambiguity Advantage Effect During Lexical Access"
11:30-12:00 Yung-O Biq, "Classifier, Constituency, and Discourse: The Interaction of Grammatical Categories and Cognitive Strategies"
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 Session 4
Chair: Shuanfan Huang
13:30-14:00 Kawai Chui, "Ritualization in Evolving Pragmatic Functions: A Case Study of DUI"
14:00-14:30 Yu-Fang Wang, Aya Katz & Chih-hua Chen, "From 'Propositional' to 'Expressive' Meanings -- Shuo ('say') in Chinese BBS Talk and Conversation Produced by Young People in Taiwan"
14:30-15:00 Huei-ling Lai, "The Polygrammaticalization of Hakka BUN"
15:00-15:30 Break
16:00-17:30 Session 5
Chair: James Huang
16:00-16:30 Ting-chi Tang, "Causative-inchoative Alternation in Chinese Compound Verbs"
16:30-17:00 Jo-wang Lin, "On Temporal Reference in Modern Chinese"
17:00-17:30 W.-T. Dylan Tsai, "On the Distribution and Interpretation of Certain Adverbials in Chinese - A View from the Grammar-Cognition Interface"
Sunday, December 24, 2000
08:30-09:30 Keynote Speech (II)
Chair: Feng-fu Tsao
Ovid Tzeng, "Language and Brain"
09:30-10:00 Break
10:00-12:00 Session 6
Chair: Paul J.-K. Li
10:00-10:30 Lillian M. Huang, "Focus System of Mayrinax Atayal: A Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Perspective"
10:30-11:00 Youmehim Chen, "Any without Any: NPI-licensing and Structural Iconicity Between Semantics and Syntax in Tsou"
11:00-11:30 Edith Aldridge, "VP-fronting and Grammaticalization of Neg to Q in Middle Chinese"
11:30-12:00 Wen-hsien Hsu, "*-l and *s- Consonant Clusters on the Chu Bamboo and Silk Manuscripts During the Warring States Period"
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-17:00 Panel Discussion
Theme: Language and Cognition
Chair: C.-C. Cheng
13:30-13:50 Hsin-I Hsieh, "The Co-evolution of Language and Reality"
13:50-14:10 James Huang, "Language Variation and Formal Explanations"
14:10-14:30 Thomas Lee, "Language and Cognition in the Development of Quantificational Competence"
14:30-14:50 Shuanfan Huang, "Grammar and Distributed Cognition"
14:50-15:10 James Tai, "Grammar as a Conceptual System"
15:10-15:40 Break
15:40-17:00 Discussion
15:40-16:00 Chair commentary: C.-C. Cheng
16:00-17:00 Open discussion
17:00-17:10 Closing Remarks