Hsieh, Miao-Ling

Dr. Miao-Ling Hsieh is an associate professor in the English Department of National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU). After receiving her Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Southern California in 2001, she has been teaching English and linguistics in NTNU and supervised more than 20 theses and dissertations since then. In addition to teaching, she was Co-editor of Concentric: Studies in Linguistics, a journal published by the English Department of NTNU, from August 2007 to July 2009, from December 2013 to May 2014 and from June 2016 to November 2016. As an active member of linguistics societies, she served as Vice-secretary of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL) from 2012-2015 and President of the Linguistic Society of Taiwan (LST) in 2014-2015. She has also served as Head of Curriculum and Teaching Division at the prestigious Mandarin Training Center at NTNU from September 2007 to July 2016. Moreover, she has twice served as a visiting scholar. The host institutions and the terms of visit include Macquarie University, Austria, from July 2010 to January 2011, and Academia Sinica, from July 2016 to December 2017.

Her main research focuses on syntactic theories, the interface between syntax and semantics, first and second language acquisition, and syntax of Taiwan Southern Min. Articles she writes appear in Concentric: Studies in Linguistics, Language and Linguistics, Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, Journal of Chinese Linguistics and Journal of East Asian Linguistics. Her book The Internal Structure of Noun Phrases in Chinese is published by Crane Publishers, Taipei, in 2008. Moreover, a paper on Taiwanese Hokkien/Southern Min appears in The Handbook of Chinese Linguistics in 2014. Finally, a paper on L1 acquisition of syntax: word order and phrase structure is published in Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics in 2015.

Educational Background

PhD in Linguistics, University of Southern California 

南加州大學語言學博士

Dissertation Title

Form and meaning: negation and question in Chinese

Research Expertise

Language Acquisition (語言習得)

Syntax (句法學)