Program
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Program [PDF] （version 2.0, 2024. 2. 26）
March 5 (Tuesday), 2024
| 09:00-09:15 | Opening remarks Prof. Sze-Wing Tang (Chair, CUHK Department of Chinese Language and Literature) Prof. Alan C. L. Yu (Chair, UChicago Department of Linguistics) |
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| Group Photo | ||
| Session 1 (Chair: Stephen Matthews) | ||
| 09:15-10:00 | Talk 1 | Pragmatic indecision Chris Kennedy (UChicago) |
| 10:00-10:45 | Talk 2 | Reducing Uncertainty in Contact-induced Linguistic Change: A case study of Cantonese Ming Xiang (UChicago) |
| 10:45-11:00 | Coffee break | |
| Session 2 (Chair: Paul S. Law) | ||
| 11:00-11:45 | Talk 3 | Suggestive questions Itamar Francez (UChicago) |
| 11:45-12:30 | Talk 4 | Clause size and modal flavor in the grammar of attitude reports:
A view from Mandarin xiang and beyond Thomas Grano (Indiana University) |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
| Session 3 (Chair: Bit-Chee Kwok) | ||
| 14:00-14:45 | Talk 5 | On the expressive origins of expletive infixes Alan C. L. Yu (UChicago) |
| 14:45-15:30 | Talk 6 | Internal Asymmetry of Disyllabic Coordinative Verbs in Mandarin and an Explanation Dun Deng (CUHK) |
| 15:30-15:45 | Coffee break | |
| Session 4 (Chair: Zheng Shen) | ||
| 15:45-16:30 | Talk 7 | A Semantic Typology of Completives in Mandarin Anqi Zhang (Nanjing University) |
| 16:30-17:15 | Talk 8 | Removing variable telicity with Mandarin le Yenan Sun (CUHK) & Lawrence Yam-Leung Cheung (CUHK) & Jackie Yan-Ki Lai (CityU) |
| 17:15-18:00 | Talk 9 | Agreement in imperative clauses: Evidence from Mandarin and Cantonese Xuetong Yuan (UConn) & Ka-Fai Yip (Yale) |
| 18:30 | Dinner | |