Contact Information
Dr. Su-ying Hsiao
Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica
No. 128, Sec. 2, Academia Road, Nangang 11529, Taipei, TAIWAN
Tel: 886-2-26525041
Fax: 886-2-27856622
E-mail: suying@sinica.edu.tw
Current Position
2016~ Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica
2016~ Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Literature, National Taiwan University
University Education
2002 Ph.D., Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University (Dissertation: Negative Sensitivity in Chinese: A Comparative Study of Mandarin Chinese and Holo Taiwanese)
1992 M.A., Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University (Thesis: A Study of the correlative construction lu…lu in Taiwanese (in Chinese))
1988 B.A., English Department, National Taiwan Normal University
Expertise
Mongolian diachronic and synchronic syntax
Taiwan Southern Min syntax
Comparative and Contrastive studies of Altaic languages and Chinese
Members
Life member, Linguistic Society of Taiwan
Member, Taiwan Languages and Literature Society
Member, International Association for Mongol Studies, Ulaanbaatar
Member, The Mongolia Society, Indiana University
Work Experience
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese Literature, National Taiwan University (2013-2016)
Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica (March, 2008~ Jan., 2016)
Research Assistant, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica (Feb., 2004~ March, 2008)
Research Assistant, Institute of Linguistics (Preparatory Office), Academia Sinica (Aug., 1997~ Feb., 2004)
Research Assistant, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica (Aug., 1993~ Aug., 1997)
Contract-based Research Assistant, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica (Aug., 1992~Aug., 1993)
Part-time Contract-based Research Assistant, Chinese Knowledge Information Processing Group, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica (Aug., 1991~ Aug., 1992)
English Teacher, Tou-qian Junior High School of Taipei County (Aug.,1987~ July, 1989)
Awards & Honor
Research Grants, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (2014-2018)
Research Grants, National Science Council, Taiwan (2006~2013)
Honored Medal for the 800th anniversary of Great Mongolian State (2006)
Research Grants, National Science Council, Taiwan (2003~2005)
Doctoral Fellowships, National Science Council, Taiwan (1996~1998)
One of the Best papers on Hakka, Awarded by Ministry of Education, Taiwan (1998)
One of the Best papers on Southern Min, Awarded by Ministry of Education, Taiwan (1996)
Research Grants (Type B; for Best Papers of the Year 1992 in the "Lecturer" category), National Science Council, Taiwan (1993)
Li Fang-kui Fellowship (Best M.A. thesis of the Year), Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Tsinghua University (1992)
Research Grants
※ Altaic languages (especially on Mongolian and Manchu)
2017-2018 Principal investigator, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (Grant Number MOST 106-2410-H-001-047 -), “Corpora of Late and Early Modern Mongolian Texts and a diachronic study of morphology and syntax”
2016-2017 Principal investigator, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (Grant Number MOST 105-2410-H-001-083 -), “Köke Sudur (Blue chronicle) and Manchu-Mongolian-Chinese Readers: Corpora and a linguistic study II”
2015-2016 Principal investigator, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (Grant Number MOST 104-2410-H-001-085 -), “Köke Sudur (Blue chronicle) and Manchu-Mongolian-Chinese Readers: Corpora and a linguistic study”
2014-2015 Principal investigator, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (Grant Number MOST 103-2410-H-001-062-), "Manchu Veritable Records, Mongolian Laoqida and Manchu Laoqida Corpora Building and A Comparative Study of Verbal suffixes in Manchu and Mongolian 4"
2013-2014 Principal investigator, National Science Council, Taiwan (Grant Number NSC 102-2410-H-001-047-), "Manchu Veritable Records, Mongolian Laoqida and Manchu Laoqida Corpora Building and A Comparative Study of Verbal suffixes in Manchu and Mongolian 3"
2012-2013 Principal investigator, National Science Council, Taiwan (Grant Number NSC 101-2410-H-001-093-), "Manchu Veritable Records, Mongolian Laoqida and Manchu Laoqida Corpora Building and A Comparative Study of Verbal suffixes in Manchu and Mongolian 2"
2011-2012 Principal investigator, National Science Council, Taiwan (Grant Number NSC 100-2628-H-001 -009 -), "Manchu Veritable Records, Mongolian Laoqida and Manchu Laoqida Corpora Building and A Comparative Study of Verbal suffixes in Manchu and Mongolian"
2009-2011 Principal investigator, National Science Council, Taiwan (Grant Number NSC 98-2410-H-001-068-MY2), "A Linguistic Study of the 1716 wood-block and the Longfu Temple versions of Mongolian Geser"
2008-2009 Principal investigator, National Science Council, Taiwan (Grant Number NSC 97-2410-H-001-066-), "A diachronic study of Mongolian grammaticalized temporal system (3)"
2007- 2008 Principal investigator, National Science Council, Taiwan (Grant Number NSC 96-2411-H-001-072-), "A diachronic study of Mongolian grammaticalized temporal system (2)"
2006- 2007 Principal investigator, National Science Council, Taiwan (Grant Number NSC 95-2411-H-001-071-), "A diachronic study of Mongolian grammaticalized temporal system"
2004- 2005 Principal investigator, National Science Council, Taiwan (Grant Number NSC 93-2411-H-001-088-), "Negation and Negative Sensitivity in Mongolian: Diachronic and Synchronic Studies "
2003- 2004 Principal investigator, National Science Council, Taiwan (Grant Number NSC 92-2411-H-001-077-), "Negation and Negative Sensitivity in Mongolian: Diachronic and Synchronic Studies"
※ Digital Archiving: Liao-Chin-Yuan Rubbings (http://rub.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/lcyrub/)
2006-2007 Collaborating principal investigator, National Science Council, Taiwan (Grant Number NSC 95-2422-H-001-018-), "Digital Archives: Project for the Liao-Chin-Yuan Rubbings (3)" ( (PI: Dr. Chin-fu Hung)
2005-2006 Collaborating principal investigator, National Science Council, Taiwan (Grant Number NSC 94-2422-H-001-016-), "Digital Archives: Project for the Liao-Chin-Yuan Rubbings (2)" (PI: Dr. Chin-fu Hung)
2004-2005 Collaborating principal investigator National Science Council, Taiwan (Grant Number NSC 93-2422-H-001-021-), "Digital Archives: Project for the Liao-Chin-Yuan Rubbings" (PI: Dr. Chin-fu Hung)
※ Digital Language Archives: Southern Min
2007-2012 Collaborating Principal investigator, Taiwan e-Learning and Digital archives Program, "Min and Hakka Language Archives" (http://minhakka.ling.sinica.edu.tw/) , a sub-project of Language Archives (Phase 2) (PI: Dr. Min-hua Chiang)
2003-2006 Associate investigator, National Digital Archives Program, "Southern Min Archives: A Database of Historical Change and Language Distribution" (http://southernmin.sinica.edu.tw/), a sub-project of Language Archives (Phase 1) (PI: Dr. Chin-chuan Cheng)
Selected Publications (2011-)
1. Hsiao, Su-ying. forthcoming. “Minority language education policy in China and practice in Inner Mongolia”(in Chinese), Studies on World Language Education Policy, National Academy for Educational Research.
2. Hsiao, Su-ying. 2014. “Some Observations on a rubbing of a 17th century inscription in Uighur-Mongolian script with elements of Manchu script and orthography,” Central Asiatic Journal, 56, 155-167.
3. Hsiao, Su-ying. 2013. “The grammatical temporal system from Middle Mongolian to Modern Mongolian,” Language and Linguistics 14.6: 1075-1103.
4. Hsiao, Su-ying. 2012. "Nominative/Genitive alternation in Modern Inner Mongolian Relative Clauses: A Statistical Perspective," Linguistic Research 29(2): 351-380. (SCOPUS, EBSCOhost, MLA, Linguistics Abstracts Online)
5. Hsiao, Su-ying. 2012. "Semantic maps of 'walk, step, rum' in Southern Min and their diffusion in Mandarin speaking areas" (in Chinese), Journal of Taiwanese Languages and Literature 7.1: 87-127.
6. Hsiao, Su-ying. 2011. "Indefinite 'how' in Taiwan Southern Min: a study of án-tsuáⁿ, guā and siáⁿ," Raung-fu Chung et al. eds. Diversity of Languages: Papers in Honor of Professor Feng-fu Tsao on the Occasion of his Retirement, pp. 125-160. Taipei: The Crane Publishing.
Selected Released E-resources
Research Statement
I was recruited to establish the field of Altaic linguistics and contrasted studies of Altaic languages and Chinese in Academia Sinica in 1992 after I got my M.A. degree and become the only linguist who studies Mongolian in Taiwan since then. I collected data of spoken Mongolian dialects by working with informants living in Taiwan and managed to get acquainted with written Mongolian by self-taught lessons, grammars and dictionaries. Besides, to facilitate my researches I started compiling corpora of important Mongolian historical texts and databases of lexicons in 2000. The building of Manchu texts and lexicon databases began in 2011. Up to date I have about 20 relational databases in hand. Some of them were released in stand-alone runtime database solutions. Besides, an online parallel corpora of Mongolian, Manchu and Chinese Laoqita (老乞大, Hangul Nogeoldae) was released to the public in 2013 (http://altaic.sinica.edu.tw/).
For the past 5 years, I mainly work on Mongolian historical syntax as well as comparative/contrasted studies of Mongolian, Manchu and some other languages. Data are drawn from representative historical texts, Modern Mongolian Corpus, published field reports, reference grammars, data in previous studies, and our own field records. Major works of my recent studies examine the proposal of “synthetic-analytic cycle” (Hsiao 2007) and focus on the development of Tense and Aspect systems from Middle Mongolian to Modern colloquial Mongolian and its impacts on other constructions such as case markings in relative clauses. Comparative studies of Mongolian and Manchu are on-going.
1. Hsiao, Su-ying. 2013. Manchu-Mongolian Parallel Corpora: Manchu Veritable Records, Mongolian Laoqida and Manchu Laoqida http://altaic.sinica.edu.tw/
2. Hsiao, Su-ying. compiled. 2013. Chinese-‘Phagspa Index (Based on Menggu Ziyun ‘Rimes in Mongol Script’ and 5 versions of Baijiaxing ‘Hundred Family Surnames’ in ‘Phagspa script)