Wei-wen Roger Liao
廖偉聞

Wei-Wen Roger Liao is an Associate Research Fellow/Professor of Linguistics at Academia Sinica and National Tsing Hua University (co-affiliated), and he is currently the co-editor of the Journal of East Asian Linguistics. He earned his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Southern California (2011). Dr. Liao’s research focuses on generative syntax and the syntax-semantics interface in the Chinese languages. He has published on topics including nominal expressions, topic structures, purpose clauses, modality, and imperative sentences. During his visit to the Harvard-Yenching Institute, he will explore the concept of finiteness within the principles and parameters framework of generative grammar, focusing particularly on languages that lack explicit tense and agreement markers