2002/2003 Semester 1

(Unless otherwise stated, the seminars are scheduled on Tuesdays at 5:15 p.m. in room MB104)

Date Speaker Title
10/09/02 Dr. James Booth
Northwestern University & Evanston Northwestern Healthcare
Skill and developmental differences in the functional neuroanatomy for language and reading
17/09/02 Dr. Conrad Perry Do current connectionist learning models account for reading development in different languages?
23/09/02
(4:30pm
Joint Labs)
Dr. Brendan Weekes
University of Sussex
Why does age-of-acquisition (AoA) of a word affect lexical processing?
24/09/02 Dr. K.K. Luke The Chinese genitive construction in diachronic and cross-linguistic perspective
08/10/02 Prof. Peng Xiao-Chuan
(彭小川教授)
Jinan University
(暨南大學)
A contrastive analysis of the formal representations and meanings of the durative in Cantonese
15/10/02 Ms. Chor Oi-Wan, Winnie Verbal particles in Cantonese
29/10/02 Dr. Stephen Matthews On dative constructions in Cantonese and Thai
05/11/02 Dr. Adams Bodomo The Syntax and Semantics of Causative Complex Predicates in French
12/11/02 Ms. Yu So-Sum, Natalie Discontinuous Verb-Noun Constructions (VNCs) in Cantonese as Complex Predicates
19/11/02
(10:40am
MB330)
Prof. Wu Guo-Zhong
(吳國忠教授)
Heilongjiang University
(黑龍江大學)
《史記》與古漢語複音虛詞
19/11/02 Mr. Ki Wing-Wah Why the learning of Cantonese tones is difficult?
26/11/02 Prof. Teruhiro Ishiguro
Doshisha University
English and Japanese Passive Construction: A Contrastive Analysis
03/12/02 Dr. Lee Wai-Sum A Phonetic Study of “er-hua yun” in Beijing Mandarin
06/12/02
(2:30pm
MB104)
Prof. Viviane Alleton
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Chinese writing and grammatical consciousness

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2002/2003 Semester 2

(Unless otherwise stated, the seminars are scheduled on Tuesdays at 5:15 p.m. in room MB104)

Date Speaker Title

15/01/03
4:30pm
MB104

Prof. Yu Shiwen (俞士汶教授)
Institute of Computational Linguistics, Peking University
(北京大學計算機語言學研究中心 )
北大語言知識庫的概況和建設經驗

16/01/03
10:40am
MB330

Prof. Yu Chi Zhi-Ping (尉遲治平教授)
Hua Zhong Ke Ji University (華中科技大學)
韻文韻書觀照法和漢語中古音研究
28/01/03
4:00pm
Rm 113, HOC
Science Bldg
Prof. Xu Daming (徐大明教授)
Department of Chinese, Nanjing University (南京大學中文系)
Nanjing Language Survey & the Theory of Speech Community
南京語言調查與言語社區理論
18/02/03 Prof. Huang Guo-Wen
School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University
A Systemic-Functional Approach to Translation Studies
25/02/03
4:00pm
Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall,
Graduate House
Professor William Shi-Yuan Wang
Department of Electronic Engineering, The City University of Hong Kong
Where Do Languages Come From?
04/03/03
MB121
Dr. David C.S. Li
Department of English and Communication, City University of Hong Kong
One day in the life of a 'purist'
06/03/03
10:30am
MB245
Prof. Shen, Jia-Xuan
Institute of Linguistics,
The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中國社會科學院, 語言研究所)
不過
11/03/03
5:15pm
MB103
Prof. Shen, Jia-Xuan
Institute of Linguistics, The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
複句三域 '行、 知、 言'
25/03/03 Dr. Fu, Guo-Hong
Department of Linguistics,
University of Hong Kong
A Text Analyzer for Mandarin Text-to-Speech Synthesis
22/04/03 Mr. John Guest
MPhil student,
Department of Linguistics,
University of Hong Kong
'I've told you a million times...don't exaggerate!': Exaggeration and Extreme Case in Cantonese and English Narratives
29/04/03 Ms. Gao, Hua
Ph.D student,
Department of Linguistics,
University of Hong Kong
A Discourse-functional Analysis of Questions in Chinese
Criminal Court Trials
06/05/03 Ms. Alice Chan
MPhil student,
Department of Linguistics,
University of Hong Kong
Neural Basis of Semantic Processing in Chinese
13/05/03 Ms. He, Xiao-Ling
Ph.D student,
Department of Linguistics,
University of Hong Kong
A syntactic, semantic and pragmatic analysis of the Chinese BA construction: An integrated account

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