A linguistics seminar, "Noun Phrase Complement Types, Gapless Relatives, and Finiteness" by Professor C. T. James Huang of Harvard University, was organised on 10 November 2017 by the T. T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre of the Institute of Chinese Studies (CLRC) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

"CUHK-KU Workshop on Chinese Grammar", also organised by the CLRC, took place at The Chinese University of Hong Kong on 11–12 December 2017. Professor Kyu-Bal Choi and students of Korea University were invited to the Workshop, where teachers and students in the field shared their current research findings on modern Chinese grammar.