Lecturers

C.-T. James Huang

C.-T. James Huang received his BA (1971) and MA (1974) from NTNU, and the Ph.D. from MIT in 1982.He has taught at University of Hawaii, National Tsing Hua, Cornell and University of California, before his current position as Professor at Harvard University and Distinguished Yushan Fellow Professor at NTNU. He is a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America (2014), and a member of both Academia Sinica (2016) and Academia Europaea (2019).

His primary research includes syntactic theory, Universal Grammar and language variation, with a focus on theoretical East Asian linguistics. Most recent publications include ‘Syntactic analyticity and parametric theory’ (2016) ‘Principles and parameters in Universal Grammar’ (2017, with Ian Roberts) ‘Finiteness, opacity, and Chinese clausal architecture’ (2022).

His home page: https://scholar.harvard.edu/ctjhuang

Jo-Wang Lin

Distinguished Research Fellow and Director, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica (2017-2024)

Convener, Linguistics Panel, Ministry of Science and Technology (2019-2021)

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Language and Linguistics (2016-2019)

Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst (1996)

Jo-Wang Lin's primary research interests lie in the formal semantic study of Chinese sentences and the syntax-semantics interface, with a focus on tense and aspect, comparatives and degree constructions, quantification phenomena in natural language, restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses, the distributive operator “dou”, the plural marker “men”, and the particle “de”.

https://www.ling.sinica.edu.tw/main/zh-tw?act=researcher_manager&code=show_member&memberID=4Major

Dylan Tsai

Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai received his Ph.D. degree in linguistics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994, and is currently the director and distinguished professor at the Linguistics Institute, National Tsing Hua University. He also serves as one of the editors of International Journal of Chinese Linguistics since 2013. His research explores issues of the syntax-semantics interface under the cartographic approach, with an emphasis on Chinese, Austronesian and Vietnamese languages from the perspective of comparative syntax. 

Dalina Kallulli

I obtained an MA in English from the University of Tirana, Albania, in 1991. I received my MPhil in General Linguistics from the University of Trondheim in 1995 and my PhD in Theoretical Linguistics from Durham University in 1999. After several successful Fellowships, I was appointed first Assistant and then Associate Professor at the University of Vienna. I have worked on Voice and, more generally, argument structure (including verbal diminutives), clitic constructions, relatives and other wh-constructions.

Ian Roberts

I obtained a BA in Linguistics with a French minor from the University of Wales, Bangor in 1979. I obtaining my PhD at the University of Southern California in 1985. In 1985-91 I was employed at the University of Geneva. In 1991 I returned to Bangor as Professor of Linguistics. From 1996 to 2000 I was Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Stuttgart. Since 2000 I have been Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and since 2022 Professor at IUSS, Pavia. In 2007 I became an Ordinary Fellow of the British Academy. 

Victoria Chen

Victoria Chen is an Associate Professor at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She received her PhD in 2017 from the University of Hawaii, under the supervision of Robert Blust and Shin Fukuda. Her research focuses on the syntactic typology of Western Austronesian languages, particularly those of Taiwan and the Philippines. Her work aims to better understand Philippine-type languages and how these languages contribute to general grammatical theory, reveal patterns of language change, and provide evidence of the prehistoric past of the Austronesian language family. She is currently working on a joint project with the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology to investigate syntactic types and changes within Austronesian languages.

 

She is currently the editor-in-chief of the New Zealand linguistics journal, Te Reo, and an editorial board member of the Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication series. More info about her work can be found at https://www.victoria-chen.com/.

Audrey Li

Professor Yen-Hui Audrey Li received her doctoral degree from the Linguistics department of the University of Southern California (USC)in 1985 and has been teaching at USC since 1986. Her research focuses on syntax, and its interface with semantics, prosody, discourse, as well as the implications and applications of the research results. She has published on a variety of topics, including constituency structures, word order, quantificational expressions, dependency relations, locality conditions, ellipsis constructions, and the interaction between syntax and semantics, prosody.

Many of her publications are available at https://dornsife.usc.edu/profile/audrey-li/ 

Chris Hsieh

I-Ta Chris Hsieh specializes in formal semantics and syntax-semantics interface. He received his Ph.D from University of Connecticut, Storrs in 2012. Currently he is an associate professor in the Graduate Institute of Linguistics in National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. The topics his research covers include, but are not limited to, negative-poliarity items (NPIs), degree constructions, conditionals and the syntax-semantics interface of DPs and NPs cross-linguistically.

Representative publications：

https://scholar.google.com.tw/citations?user=wHquv_EAAAAJ&hl=zh-TW&oi=ao


Niina Zhang

Niina Ning Zhang obtained her doctorial degree in linguistics from the University of Toronto in 1997. She is a chair professor at the National Chung Cheng University. She has published monographs Coordination in Syntax (2010, Cambridge University Press), Classifier Structuresin Mandarin Chinese (2013, Mouton de Gruyter), and Coordinate Structures (2023, Cambridge University Press), and quite a few journal papers on syntax. She proposes a unified structure for coordination and modification, and reports quite a few shared properties of coordinators and modification markers.

 See https://sites.google.com/view/lngnz/

One-Soon Her

One-Soon has a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Hawaii. He is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Tunghai University; an Adjunct Distinguished Professor in the Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Chengchi University; and the founding editor of the Taiwan Journal of Linguistics. He served as the Director of the Graduate Institute of Linguistics at National Chengchi University and the Convener of the Linguistics Section of the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC). He was twice awarded the NSTC Outstanding Research Award. He appreciates the fundamental value that everyone is equal and takes pride in using rational arguments to explore the simple truth under lying the surface of phenomena. For more information, visit his personal home page: https://onesoonher.github.io/info/index.html


Roger Liao 

Wei-Wen Roger Liao is an Associate Research Fellow/Professor of Linguistics at Academia Sinica and National Tsing Hua University. His research focuses on generative syntax and its interface with semantics and pragmatics. He has conducted extensive research on various topics, such as classifiers, adjunct clauses, finiteness, focus particles, imperative clauses, and topicalization. Currently, he serves as the co-editor of Journal of East Asian Linguistics and associate editor of Language & Linguistics. 

Henry Y. Chang

Henry Y. Chang is a research fellow at the Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica as well as a Professor in Linguistics at National Tsing Hua University. He served as an Associate Editor (2013-2018) and the Editor-in-Chief (2019-2022) for Language and Linguistics. He has been included in the Editorial Board of Lingua Sinica and Studia Linguistica. He specializes lies in the syntax and semantics of the Austronesian languages spoken in Taiwan and is best known for his publications on voice, adverbial verbs, verbs of quantity, and interrogative verbs. Details of his personal information and publications are available at his web page at http://idv.sinica.edu.tw/henryylc.

Luther Liu

Chen-Sheng Luther Liu got his Ph.D. in Linguistics from University of California, Irvine. Among his various experiences, he is most frequently mentioned for his role as a professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. His main expertise lies in formal syntax, logical semantics, and research on the interface between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Throughout his unremarkable research career, he has published several occasionally referenced journal articles. Over the years, his research has primarily focused on Modern Chinese and Taiwanese Southern Min. His research interests and topics mainly revolve around three aspects: firstly, anaphora, particularly the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties of reflexive pronouns such as “自己” and discourse pronouns like “人家”; secondly, the syntax and semantics of adjectives, adjectival reduplication, and degree adverbs; and, thirdly, the syntax and semantics of degree structures, especially comparative constructions, comparative correlatives, and degree structures involving the verb “有” in Taiwanese Southern Min .

Barry C.-Y. Yang

Dr. Barry C.-Y. Yang is currently Associate Professor of Language and Linguistic studies in the Language Center at National United University, Taiwan. His research interests include syntax-semantics/pragmatics interface, cartographic approach to syntactic theory, and Chinese syntax. His research topics include non-canonical whs, null subject phenomena, applicatives and intervention effects. 

Shu-Ing Shyu 

Professor and Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at National Sun Yat-sen University. She received her Ph.D. degree in Linguistics from University of Southern California, and M.A. in TESOL from University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests focus on formal syntax, focus, interfaces of syntax-semantics and syntax-prosody. Topics that have been researched include information structure, topic structure, focus structures, negative polarity items and minimizers, contrastive focus and ambiguity resolution, Biblical Greek information structure.

Personal Link: http://www.zephyr.nsysu.edu.tw/people/bio.php?PID=14