SEMINARS
2024
Linguistic Seminar on “Critical thinking and the challenges of AI: Some thoughts from an acquisition researcher” by Professor LEE Hun Tak Thomas
Date: November 28 (Thursday), 2024
Time: 2:30pm – 4:00pm
Venue: Swire Hall 2, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2023
Linguistic Seminar on “Understanding Early Child Grammar” by Professor Rushen Shi (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Date: December 12 (Tuesday), 2023
Time: 4:30pm – 6:15pm
Venue: Room 206, Lee Shau Kee Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2021
Linguistic Seminar on “Evolution of Verb Meanings in Children and L2 Adult Learners through Reorganization of an Entire Semantic Domain: The Case of Chinese Carry/Hold Verbs” by Professor Mutsumi Imai (Keio University)
Date: January 26 (Tuesday), 2021
Time: 4:30pm — 6:15pm
An Online Seminar (Zoom), The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2016
Linguistic Seminar on “Issues in the Processing of Japanese Relative Clauses: An Overview” by Professor Mineharu Nakayama (The Ohio State University)
Date: November 22 (Tuesday), 2016
Time: 4:30pm – 6:15pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 2, Lee Shau Kee Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2015
Linguistic Seminar on “Same Process-Different Views: The Development of Syntactic Structure” by Professor Keiko Murasugi (Nanzan University)
Date: June 11 (Thursday), 2015
Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Lady Shaw Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2013
Linguistic Seminar on “我的語言研究心得 (In Mandarin)” by Professor Jianming Lu (Peking University)
Date: November 26 (Tuesday), 2013
Time: 4:15pm – 6:15pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 1, Lee Shau Kee Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2010
Linguistic Seminar on “English Teaching in Japanese Schools – with Particular Focus on Recent Introduction of English Teaching to Public Elementary Schools” by Professor Yukio Otsu (Keio University)
Date: December 20 (Monday), 2010
Time: 4:30pm – 6:30pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Esther Lee Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Linguistic Seminar on “Shifting to a 2-Pattern Accent System in Tokyo Japanese? The Annoying Accentual Behavior of Surnames” by Professor Timothy Vance (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)
Date: May 31 (Monday), 2010
Time: 4:30pm – 6:30pm
Venue: Lai Chan Pui Ngong Lecture Theatre, Y. C. Liang Hall, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Linguistic Seminar on “What the distribution of sin ‘first’ can tell us about the question why Cantonese has more verbal and sentence particles than Mandarin” by Professor Rint Sybesma (University of Leiden)
Date: April 23 (Friday), 2010
Time: 4:30pm – 6:15pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 2, Lady Shaw Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Linguistic Seminar on “Learning of Second Languages and Mathematics: A Personal View” by Professor Leung Fu Cheung
Date: March 18 (Thursday), 2010
Time: 4:30pm – 6:15pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 1, Lee Shau Kee Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Linguistic Seminar on “What Are Core Linguistics Principles” by Professor Stephen Crain (Macquarie University)
Date: March 10 (Wednesday), 2010
Time: 9:30am – 11:30am
Venue: NAH 12, New Asia College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2009
Linguistic Seminar on “Acquisition of Inflectional Morphemes by Japanese EFL Learners” by Professor Mineharu Nakayama (The Ohio State University)
Date: September 11 (Friday), 2009
Time: 4:30pm – 6:15pm
Venue: Room 210, Teaching Complex at Western Campus (TCW), The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2008
Linguistic Seminar on “The Essence of Language: Perspectives from Sign Language” by Professor James Tai (National Chung Cheng University)
Date: October 16 (Thursday), 2008
Time: 4:15pm – 6:15pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 1, Lee Shau Kee Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Linguistic Seminar on “Chinese-Turkish Comparative Study” by Professor Dongfang Hua (Shanghai International Studies University)
Date: October 14 (Tuesday), 2008
Time: 4:15pm – 6:15pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 1, Lee Shau Kee Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Linguistic Seminar on “Abstract Concept Formation: Idealistic Thought in Archaic Chinese Script Forms” by Professor Tzewan Kwan
Date: May 15 (Thursday), 2008
Time: 4:15pm – 6:15pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 2, Lady Shaw Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2007
Linguistic Seminar on “Are Human Languages Logical?” by Professor Stephen Crain (Macquarie University)
Date: November 8 (Thursday), 2007
Time: 4:15pm – 6:15pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 1, Lee Shau Kee Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Linguistic Seminar on “Nature of Early Child Grammar: A Perspective from Acquisition of Mandarin” by Professor Xiaolu Yang (Tsinghua University)
Date: August 29 (Wednesday), 2007
Time: 4:15pm – 6:15pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 1, Lee Shau Kee Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Linguistic Seminar on “The Syntax of Proposition Formation” by Professor Tor A. Afarli (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm
Venue: AG 507, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
2006
Linguistic Seminar on “Typology and Universals of the Vowels in the Chinese Dialects” by Professor Eric Zee (City University of Hong Kong)
Date: November 13 (Monday), 2006
Time: 10:30am – 12:30pm
Venue: G33, Lady Shaw Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Linguistic Seminar on “Early Grammatical Development in Child Mandarin” by Professor Xiaolu Yang (Tsinghua University)
Date: September 8 (Friday), 2006
Time: 4:30pm – 6:30pm
Venue: Lai Chan Pui Ngong Lecture Theatre, Y. C. Liang Hall, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Linguistic Seminar on “The Treatment of the Nominal Construction Containing the Character ‘de’ and Its Related Theoretical Issues” by Professor Li Fang (Beijing Language and Culture University)
Date: August 16 (Wednesday), 2006
Time: 4:30pm – 6:30pm
Venue: Room 125, Fung King Hey Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Linguistic Seminar on “Acquisition of VP-Ellipsis and Null Object Construction in Cantonese” by Professor Lawrence Cheung (University of California, Los Angeles)
Date: June 6 (Tuesday), 2006
Time: 2:30pm – 4:30pm
Venue: G33, Lady Shaw Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong