Linguistics

Current Research Projects and Interests:
1. English lexical semantics
2. English syntactic semantics
3. History of linguistic thought

Ms. Shen Yuan is an associate professor of the Department of English of Fudan University, Shanghai. She got her M.A. in (English) Linguistics from Fudan University and her Ph.D. in Linguistics from City University of Hong Kong where she extended her research interest from the study of English to that of Chinese, and the similarities and differences in the working mechanisms underlying the use and interpretation of Chinese and English. During her research stay at Harvard-Yenching Institute she researched the parametric variation in the choice of nominal forms in Chinese and English. The study aimed at revealing which grammatical properties are inherently linked and which are only accidentally related in the choice of nominal forms in Chinese and English, which would provide insights into questions like the parametrization of lexical properties and the constraints on crosslinguistic variation.

Professor Satoshi Uehara is Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Tohoku University. His research interests focus on cognitive linguistics and contrastive linguistics.

Professor Lee is an associate professor at Yonsei University in the Department of German Language and Literature. He received his M.A. in Germanic Linguistics from Seoul National University and his Ph.D. in Theoretical Linguistics from Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany. His personal website is www.coling.info

Wang Wei (Ph.D., Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) is currently Assistant Research Fellow and Journal Editor at the Institute of Linguistics, CASS. He has been working on the temporal system of the Chinese language compared to Indo-European languages. His current focus is on the metaphoric contrasts in temporal construal of spatial concepts between Chinese and English and the ramifications on their respective tense/aspect system. He is also interested in the evolution of contemporary Chinese language, particularly the period when it was under the impact of translation literature at the turn of the 20th century.

Current Research Projects and Interests: Comparative studies among English, Chinese and Tongan in the proposed paradigm of 'Non-Verb Continuum'

Hu Suhua (Ph.D., Department of Linguistics, Central University for Nationalities, China), is currently Professor at the Institute for Chinese Minority Languages, Minzu University of China (formerly Central University for Nationalities). Her research interests include linguistic typology theories, syntax theories, and Yi-Burmese (Lolo-Burmese) group languages. She is also interested in Yi culture, oral history and genealogy. She has been working on both contemporary Yi language and classical Yi. Dr. Hu has extensive fieldwork experience and has conducted research on Burmese in Myanmar (Burma) and Akhanese in Thailand, which are both important languages of Lolo-Burmese group. She grew up in a traditional Yi family (her Yi name in Chinese characters is 罗洪依乌嫫) and her mother tongue is Yi. During her stay at HYI, Dr. Hu worked on linguistic characteristics of the Yi classical scripture (指路经).

Lee Miseon (Ph.D., University of Hawaii at Manoa) is an Associate Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, Hanyang University, Korea. Her primary research interests lie in the syntactic aspects manifested in linguistically limited populations such as language learners and people with language disorders. Recently she has been working on the morphosyntactic processing patterns in various types of language learners. During her stay at HYI, she will continue the work on this topic, with a focus on online processing in children with autism.