Two linguistics seminars organised by the T. T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre of the Institute of Chinese Studies were held at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) on 18 October and 1 November. Prof. Meilan Zhang of the Hong Kong Baptist University was invited to deliver a talk on "文獻比較視閾下之粵語特徵研究" (Features of the Cantonese from the perspective of literature comparison) and Prof. Ryosuke Shibagaki of Nanzan University was invited to talk about "The Property of Mandarin Serial Verbs in the Syntax-semantics Interface".