Program

9:15-9:30

Opening Remarks
Shengli FENG
Department of Chinese Language and Literature,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Session 1
Chair: Shengli FENG
Department of Chinese Language and Literature,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

9:30-10:30

Keynote Speaker: Richard S. KAYNE
Why We Were Led Astray by Directionality Parameters
New York University

10:30-10:50

TEA RECEPTION

Session 2
Chair: Barry C.-Y. YANG
Department of Applied Foreign Languages/Language Center,
National United University

10:50-11:30

Hisao TOKIZAKI
Prosody and Head-directionality in Chinese
Sapporo University

11:30-12:10

Yam-Leung CHEUNG
Some Problematic Word Order Issues in Chinese Dislocation Copying Construction
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

12:10-2:00

LUNCH BREAK

Session 3
Chair: Dingxu SHI
Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies,
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

2:00-3:00

Keynote Speaker: Wei-tien Dylan TSAI
Merging Prepositions VP-externally in Chinese
National Tsing Hua University

3:00-3:40

Xiaoliang HUANG
Deriving the Num-Cl-(de)-N Order in Chinese
Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7, LLF - UMR 7110 CNRS

3:40-4:20

Jing JIN
Three Types of de-contained Measure Expressions in Mandarin Chinese
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

4:20-4:40

TEA RECEPTION

Session 4
Chair: Thomas H.-T. LEE
Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

4:40-5:20

Jui-Yi Zoey CHUNG
On Word Order in Modals: A Case Study of Postverbal Modal CAN in Hakka
National Tsing Hua University

5:20-6:20

Invited Speaker: Yen-hui Audrey LI
Restricted Free Word Order in Chinese
University of Southern California