Public Lecture by Edward Shaughnessy, ICS Visiting Professor

The ICS and the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies jointly presented a public lecture by Professor Edward Shaughnessy on 14 March 2013. The keynote of Professor Shaughnessy's lecture was "A Special Use of the Character 鄉 in Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Its Significance for the Meaning of Early Chinese Divination: With Comments on the First Line of the Yi Jing."

Professor Edward Shaughnessy has been appointed as an ICS Visiting Professor for the academic year 2013-2014. He is currently the Department Chair of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, and Lorraine J. and Herrlee G. Creel Distinguished Service Professor of Early China. His research expertise lies in the cultural and literary history of the Zhou period, and he is committed to the study of its archaeologically recovered textual materials, from oracle-bone and bronze inscriptions through to the bamboo-strip manuscripts.

The Third International Symposium on CSL Teaching and Learning

The Symposium is organized by the Yale-China Chinese Language Centre, Chinese University of Hong Kong. It is a major event for the Centre's fiftieth anniversary celebrations and is also part of the University's fiftieth anniversary celebratory event. All interested parties are welcome to come and share their views on Chinese language teaching and learning on this special occasion.

The 3rd International Symposium on CSL Teaching and Learning is organized by the Yale-China Chinese Language Center, Chinese University of Hong Kong. The theme of the Symposium is "Theories and Practices in the Training of Pragmatic Abilities". The Symposium Committee invites distinguished international scholars to share their research outcomes, with reference to their applications in CSL teaching. Presentations by invited speakers and discussion sessions will cover the theories and practices used to facilitate the development of pragmatic ability in language use.

The Symposium is co-organized by the Research Centre for Chinese Linguistics of the Department of Chinese and the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages. Special sponsors include the Faculty of Arts, the Research Institute of Humanities and the Chinese Language and Culture (Hong Kong) Foundation.

Workshop on the Syntax of Ellipsis

The workshop is organized by the T. T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre. Four invited speakers will focus on ellipsis in natural languages under a comparative approach and its syntactic derivation in the generative framework. All interested parties are welcome.

The Workshop on the Syntax of Ellipsis is organized by the T. T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre. It will focus on ellipsis in natural languages under a comparative approach and its syntactic derivation in the generative framework. The four invited speakers are Professor Kyle Johnson of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Professor Satoshi Tomioka of the University of Delaware, Professor Yen-hui Audrey Li of the University of Southern California, and Professor Ting-Chi Wei of the National Kaohsiung Normal University. For the programme and other details, please visit this website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/clrc/ellipsis. All interested parties are welcome.

For details of individual speaker, please click:
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/clrc/ellipsis/speakers.html

The T. T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre and the Department of Chinese Language and Literature are co-organizing two linguistics seminars presented by Professor Kayne, New York University, which will be held on 8 and 9 April 2013. All interested parties are welcome.

Professor Richard S. Kayne has been invited to present two linguistics seminars, co-organized by the T. T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre and the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, to be held on 8 and 9 April 2013. For details of the seminars, please visit http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/clrc/.

Professor Kayne is the author of French Syntax (1975), Connectedness and Binary Branching (1984), The Antisymmetry of Syntax (1994), Parameters and Universals (2000), Movement and Silence (2005) and Comparisons and Contrasts (2010). He received a BA summa cum laude in mathematics from Columbia University in 1964, a PhD in linguistics from MIT in 1969, a Doctorat ès Lettres from the University of Paris VIII in 1976, and honorary doctorates from the University of Leiden in 1995 and the University of Bucharest in 2011. He has taught at the University of Paris VIII, MIT and the CUNY Graduate Center, and is currently Silver Professor of Linguistics at New York University.

Title: Comparative Syntax
Date: 8 April 2013 (Monday)
Time: 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Venue: 2/F, Activities Room, Art Museum East Wing, Institute of Chinese Studies
 

Title: Some Thoughts on English one
Date: 9 April 2013 (Tuesday)
Time: 10:30am - 12:00pm
Venue: 2/F, Activities Room, Art Museum East Wing, Institute of Chinese Studies