The NTHU Liao's Historical Linguistics Research Group is a research group that Dr. Hsiu-chuan Liao has been convening for students at the Institute of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University since Spring 2019. The purpose of organizing this research group is to help students at NTHU Linguistics progress faster in their degree pursuit. To achieve this goal, students are expected to take turns making presentations.
Some questions you might have about the Historical Linguistics Research Group
Who is eligible in joining the research group?
(1) graduate students at the Institute of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University (typically students who show great interests in historical linguistics will be invited by Dr. Liao or other group members (after checking with Dr. Liao) or students can write to Dr. Liao to request for joining the group)
(2) advanced ungraduate students at National Tsing Hua University who have taken or are taking graduate-level courses from Dr. Hsiu-chuan Liao (typically students who show great interests in historical linguistics will be invited by Dr. Liao or other group members (after checking with Dr. Liao) or students can write to Dr. Liao to request for joining the group)
(3) incoming graduate students of the Institute of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University (incoming students can write to Dr. Liao to request for joining the group)
We typically meet at 6:30PM on Wednesdays. Occasionally, the meeting can be scheduled at some other time. Typically, we meet once per week except when students have their midterm or final exams, or when most group members are travelling for conferences or fieldwork. However, when no student has any topic to present at a particular week, we will not meet.
Before COVID, we used to have in-person meetings. Since the pandemic started, we have been meeting online (via GoogleMeet) regularly except for abstract reviewing sessions.
Basically, every group meeting will begin with a presentation by a group member, and then Dr. Liao and other group members will give comments and suggestions for improving the presentation and/or research project.
No. Group members can choose to work with other professors at NTHU Linguistics. For example, Thanh Viet Cao works with Dr. I-Ta Hsieh for his dissertation research.
However, all supervisees of Dr. Hsiu-chuan Liao are expected to join the research group and make presentations regularly.
Cao, Thanh Viet (高 成越)
Pan, Samuel Yu-Hsiang (潘 俞翔) [MA in Linguistics (NTHU, 2020)]
MA thesis title: Vowel Patterns in Takibakha Bunun: Mid Vowels and Diphthongs (卡社布農語的元音型態：中元音與雙元音)
Shibata, Kye (柴田 海) [MA in Linguistics (NTHU, 2020)]
MA thesis title: A Reconstruction of Proto-Bunun Phonology and Lexicon (原始布農語音韻系統與詞彙的重建).
Sirintranon, Noppakao (高 錦榕)
Miguel, Julie Ann Julian (葉 娳安)
Ong, Phin-ting (王 品程)
Song, Walis Hian-chi (宋 硯之)
Tsai, Yu-yun (蔡 羽筠)
Yang, Chih-hung (楊 智閎)
Yeh, Fang-chi (葉 芳綺)
PhD
Goderich, Andre (郭 育賢). 2020. Atayal Phonology, Reconstruction, and Subgrouping (泰雅語音韻系統、重建與分群). PhD dissertation, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University (國立清華大學語言學研究所博士班). [defended on June 19, 2020] (in English)
MA
Chuang, Li-Yang (莊立揚). 2024. The internal and external relationships of Paiwan (排灣語的內部及外部關係). M.A. thesis, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University (國立清華大學語言學研究所碩士班). [defended on January 18, 2024] (in English)
Tseng, Li-Yang (曾理陽). 2022. A Reconstruction of Northeast Formosan (東北台灣南島語的重建). M.A. thesis, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University (國立清華大學語言學研究所碩士班). [defended on December 16, 2022] (in English)
Su, Hsiu-Feng (Ma Thin Thin Sein Lynn) (蘇秀鳳). 2022. Mon and Khmer loanwords in Burmese (緬甸語中的孟語與高棉語借詞). M.A. thesis, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University (國立清華大學語言學研究所碩士班). [defended on September 19, 2022] (in English)
Lin, Ting-yu (林庭妤). 2022. Amis-Sakizaya phonology, reconstruction, and subgrouping (阿美語-撒奇萊雅語音韻系統、重建與分群). M.A. thesis, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University (國立清華大學語言學研究所碩士班). [defended on July 28, 2022] (in English)
2021-
2024 The 33rd Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS 33) (第三十三屆東南亞語言學學會年會), GIS NTU Convention Center, Taipei, Taiwan (& online via GoogleMeet), June 15-17, 2024.
[Sponsored by National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) (國家科學及技術委員會) (NSTC 113-2916-I-007-003-A1; total amount of grant received: NT$550,000), Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, National Tsing Hua University (國立清華大學人文社會研究中心), and Brill (博睿出版社)]
2024 SEA Workshop: Language Contact and Historical relationships of Languages in Southeast Asia (HRESAL 2) (東南亞語言學工作坊: 東南亞語言的語言接觸與歷史關係), College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hsinchu, Taiwan, June 18, 2024. [sponsored by Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, National Tsing Hua University (國立清華大學人文社會研究中心) and Center for Sustainable Development of Linguistic Diversity in Taiwan (SDLD), National Tsing Hua University (國立清華大學臺灣語言多樣性永續發展人文社會研究中心)]
2022 The Online Conference on Historical Relationships of East and Southeast Asian Languages (HRESAL) 2022. National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, September 3-4, 2022 (via GoogleMeet)