Publications

(一)  期刊論文/專書論文 (Journal articles / Book chapters) 

1. Lai, Huei-ling. To appear. Taiwan Hakka Corpus. Hsin-Huang Hsiao (ed.), Encyclopedia of Taiwan Studies. Brill.

2. Hsu, Hsiao-Ling, Huei-ling Lai, and Jyi-Shane Liu. To appear. Fighting for democracy: One scenario, multiple ideological implications. Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 23.1. (EBSCOhost; Scopus; THCI Level I; TCI) (accepted in October 2023)

3. Lai, Huei-ling and Hsiao-Ling Hsu. 2024 (Available online). DOG and CAT proverbs: Cognitive operations and cultural constraints. Review of Cognitive Linguistics. doi: https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00174.lai (SSCI; AHCI; LLBA; Scopus; MLA) 

4. Wu, Pin-hua, Chun-yin Doris Chen, and Huei-ling Lai. 2023. The acquisition order of zhidao-type near-synonyms in Chinese. Chinese as a Second Language Acquisition Research (CASLAR), 12(2): 305–331. (Scopus)

5.  Yeh, Chiou-shing and Huei-ling Lai. 2023. Rare characters, missing characters and character variants in Taiwan Hakka: An exploration from corpus construction (從語料庫建構探討臺灣客語難字、缺字與異體字議題). Journal of Taiwanese Languages and Literature, 18.1: 135-184. (THCI Level I) (In Chinese).

6.      Lai, Yao-Ying and Huei-ling Lai. 2023. Impact of social cognitive propensity on the processing of nontransparent sentential meaning. Journal of Pragmatics, 205: 33-62. (SSCI ; AHCI ; LLBA ; Scopus ; MLA)

7. Lai, Huei-ling and Yao-Ying Lai. 2022. Iterative Meaning in Mandarin Chinese: Linguistic Factors and its Processing. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford University Press. doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.920

8. Hsu, Hsiao-Ling, Huei-ling Lai, and Jyi-Shane Liu. 2022. DEMOCRACY in Taiwanese presidential inaugural addresses: Metaphors, source domains, scenarios, and ideologies. Concentric: Studies in Linguistics, 48.2: 212-248. (EBSCOhost ; Scopus ; THCI Level I; TCI)

9. Wu, Shuang-Yu and Huei-ling Lai. 2022. Exploring New Passive Construction “ bei + X ” from the perspectives of exemplar model and lexical-constructional approach (從範例模型及詞彙構式互動的觀點探討新型「被+X」構式). Taiwan Journal of Linguistics (台灣語言學期刊), 20.1:115-150. (EBSCOhost ; Scopus ; THCI Level I; TCI) (In Chinese).

10. Yeh, Chiou-shing and Huei-ling Lai. 2021. The Digitalization of Corpus Data in Taiwan Hakka Language (臺灣客語語料之數位化). Global Hakka Studies (全球客家研究), 17:49-100. (In Chinese).

11. Yeh, Chiou-shing, Huei-ling Lai, and Jyi-Shane Liu. 2021. The Construction of Taiwan Hakka Corpus and Preliminary Analysis of Hakka Lexical Usage (臺灣客語語料庫建置與客語詞彙使用初探). Journal of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities (數位人文與數位典藏), 8:75-131. (In Chinese).

12. Wu, Shuang-Yu and Huei-ling Lai. 2021. Synaesthetic Transfer and Emotional Trigger of the Gustatory Term /tian2/ (味覺詞「甜」的通感轉移與情緒誘發). Journal of Chinese Language Teaching (華語文教學研究), 18.3: 73-106 (THCI Level I) (In Chinese).

13. Lai, Huei-ling, Hsiao-Ling Hsu, Jyi-Shane Liu, Chia-Hung Lin, and Yanhong Chen. 2021. Supervised Word Sense Disambiguation on Polysemy with Neural Network Models: A Case Study of BUN in Taiwan Hakka. International Journal of Asian Language Processing, 30.3: 1-17. (MOST-108-2410-H-004-050-MY3)

14.  Lai, Huei-ling. 2020. Playful Metaphors in Sex Jokes and Socio-Cultural Implications. Metaphor and Symbol, 35.4: 221-235. (EBSCOhost ; Scopus ; AHCI ; SSCI) (MOST 105-2410-H-004-179-MY3)

15. Lai, Huei-ling and Yi-chen Chen. 2019. Chinese Metaphorical Expressions in Talking About the End-of-Life Journey. In Hongyin Tao and Howard Hao-Jan Chen. (Eds.) Chinese for Specific and Professional Purposes: Theory, Pedagogical Applications, and Practices, 189-212. Singapore: Springer.

16. Lai, Huei-ling. 2019. Collocation analysis of news discourse and its ideological implications. Pragmatics, 29.4: 545-570. (AHCI ; Bibliography of Pragmatics Online (BoP); Scopus; SSCI) (MOST 104-2420-H-004-002-MY2)

17.  Lai, Huei-ling. 2019. Color terms in Chinese. In Chu-Ren Huang, Jing-Schmidt Zhuo, and Barbara Meisterernst. (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Applied Linguistics, 105-117. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. (NSC102-2410-H-004-058-MY3)

18. Lai, Huei-ling. 2019. An introduction to Taiwan Hakka: Focusing on its sounds, morph-syntax and social background. In Chris Shei (Ed.). The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis, 582-595. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.

19. Lai, Huei-ling, Kawai Chui, Wen-Hui Sah, Siaw-Fong Chung, and Chao-Lin Liu. 2018. Language communities, corpora, and cognition. In Shu-Heng Chen (Ed.) Big Data in Computational Social Science and Humanities, 195-206. Switzerland: Springer.

20.  Lai, Huei-ling. 2018. Metaphor in Hakka Proverbs: Linguistic and Cultural Constraints. Language and Linguistics, 19.4: 549-576. (AHCI; SSCI; THCI Level I).

21. Lai, Huei-ling and Siaw-Fong Chung. 2018. Color polysemy: BLACK and WHITE in Taiwanese languages. Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 16.1: 95-130. (Scopus; THCI Level I; ESCI) (NSC102-2410-H-004-058-MY3) 

22. Lai, Huei-ling. 2017. Understanding ethnic visibility through language use: The case of Taiwan Hakka. Asian Ethnicity, 18.3: 406-423. (Scopus; ESCI)  (MOST104-2420-H-004-002-MY2)

23. Chui, Kawai, Huei-ling Lai, and Hui-chen Chan. 2017.Taiwan Chinese spoken corpus. In Rint Sybesma (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics, 257-259. Leiden: Brill.

24.   Lai, Huei-ling and Chao-Lin Liu. 2017. The evolution of Hakka symbolic code ngang giang (“stiff neck”): A longitudinal analysis of newspapers in Taiwan (客家象徵符碼〈硬頸〉之演變：臺灣報紙媒體縱剖面之分析). Communication & Society (傳播與社會), 39, 29–60. (TSSCI) (MOST104-2420-H-004-002-MY2) (In Chinese)

25.  Lai, Huei-ling. 2015. Profiling Hakka Bun Causative Constructions. Language and Linguistics, 16.3: 369-395. (SSCI, AHCI). (NSC 100-2410-H-004-185-MY2)

26.  Chen, Yi-chen, and Huei-ling Lai. 2015. Developing EFL learners’ metaphoric competence through cognitive-oriented methods. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 534: 415–438. (SSCI)

27. Chen, Yi-chen and Huei-ling Lai. 2014. The Influence of Cultural Universality and Specificity on EFL Learners’ Comprehension of Metaphor and Metonymy. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 24.3: 312-336. (MLA, APA)

28. Yeh, Chiou-shing and Huei-ling Lai. 2014. Modal Development of pa3 in Taiwanese Hakka: Grammaticalization and Subjectification (臺灣客語「怕」之情態演變：語法化與主觀化之觀點). Chinese Studies (漢學研究), 32.1: 305-340. (NSC 100-2410-H-004- 185- MY2) (THCI Level I) (In Chinese)

29. Chen, Yi-chen and Huei-ling Lai. 2013. Being Aware is not Enough: Learning Metaphor and Metonymy through Cognitive-oriented Methods. Referred Proceedings of ALAA (Applied Linguistics Association of Australia) Conference, 610-639.

30. Chen, Yi-chen and Huei-ling Lai. 2013. Teaching English Idioms as Metaphors through Cognitive-oriented Methods: A Case in an EFL Writing Class. English Language Teaching, 6.6: 13-20.

31. Chen, Yi-chen and Huei-ling Lai. 2012. EFL learners' awareness of metonymy-metaphor continuum in figurative expressions. Language Awareness, 21.3: 235-248. (SSCI, AHCI)

32. Li, shih-min and Huei-ling Lai. 2011b. An analysis of the (im)perfectivity of do2/den2 (著) in Hakka: Interaction of lexical semantics and construction (臺灣客語表成貌與持續貌「著」之探討─詞彙語意與構式互動的觀點). Chinese Studies (漢學研究), 29.3: 193-230. (NSC 99-2410-H-004-185) (THCI Level I) (In Chinese)

33.  Li, Shih-min and Huei-ling Lai. 2011a. Hakka aspectual ted4 constructions: A constructional approach. International Journal of Language Studies, 5.1: 97-124. (NSC 99-2410-H-004-185)

34.  Lai, Huei-ling and Wan-jyun Luo. 2010. Verbal polysemy of Hakka piong3 'to put': Frames and constructions. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 38.2: 224-260. (NSC 95-2411-H0004-026-MY2; NSC 97-2411-H-004-110-MY2) (SSCI, AHCI)

35. Lai, Huei-ling and Shih-min Li. 2010. Hakka corpus: Construction and Application (客語語料庫的建構及應用). Post-conference Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference of Hakka Studies (客語千秋：第八屆國際客方言學術研討會論文集), 300-312. Taipei: Crane. (In Chinese)

36.  Chui, Kawai and Huei-ling Lai. 2008. The NCCU Corpus of Spoken Chinese: Mandarin, Hakka, and Southern Min. Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 6.2: 119-142. (MLA, LLBA, LA, THCI Level I)

37. Lai, Huei-ling. 2008b. Using constructions as information management devices: Analysis of Hakka lien5...ya3/du3 constructions. Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology Academia Sinica, 79.2: 343-376. (NSC 95-2411-H-004-026-MY2) (AHCI; TSSCI)

38. Lai, Huei-ling. 2008a. Understanding and classifying two-part allegorical sayings: Metonymy, metaphor, and cultural constraints. Journal of Pragmatics, 40.3: 454-474. (NSC 93-2411-H-004-039 ; NSC 94-2411-H-004-007) (SSCI, AHCI)

39.  Liao, Pei-yun and Huei-ling Lai. 2007. Hakka verbs of removal: Integration of verbal meanings and [VX] constructions. Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 5.2: 1-44. (MLA, LLBA, LA)

40. Chiang, Shu-mei and Huei-ling Lai. 2007. Grammaticalization and beyond: The invisible space behind the body-part term boi55 (背) ‘back’ in Hakka. Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies, 37.1: 275-304. (THCI)

41.  Lai, Huei-ling. 2007. Morphosyntactic and semantic changes of Hakka si2: A multi-level analysis. Language and Linguistics, 8.2: 553-574. (SSCI, AHCI, MLA, CSA, LLBA)

42.  Lai, Huei-ling. 2006. Iconic coding of conceptualization: Hakka reduplicative constructions. Language and Linguistics, 7.2: 483-499. (MLA, CSA, LLBA)

43.  Lai, Huei-ling. 2004. The syntactic grounding and conceptualization of Hakka BUN and LAU. Concentric: Studies in Linguistics, 30.1: 87-105.

44.  Lai, Huei-ling and Shu-mei Chiang. 2003. Intrapsychological force-dynamic interaction: Verbs of refraining in Hakka. Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 1.2: 35-64. (MLA, LLBA, LA)

45. Lai, Huei-ling. 2003c. The semantic extension of Hakka LAU. Language and Linguistics, 4.3: 533-561. (MLA, CSA, LLBA)

46.  Lai, Huei-ling. 2003b. The lexicalization patterns of verbs of hitting in Hakka. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 31.2: 340-361. (AHCI)

47. Lai, Huei-ling. 2003a. Hakka LAU constructions: A constructional approach. Language and Linguistics, 4.2: 357-378. (MLA, CSA, LLBA)

48. Lai, Huei-ling. 2002b. From verb to verbal complement: Evidence from the verb DO in Hakka. Form and function: Linguistic studies in honor of Shuanfan Huang, ed. by Lily I-wen Su, Chinfa Lien, and Kawai Chui, 225-247. Taipei: Crane.

49.  Lai, Huei-ling. 2002a. The grammaticalization of the verb DO in Hakka. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 30.2: 370-391. (AHCI)

50.  Lai, Huei-ling. 2001. On Hakka BUN: A case of polygrammticalization. Language and Linguistics, 2.2: 137-153. (MLA, CSA, LLBA)

51. Lai, Huei-ling. 1999. Rejected expectations: two scalar particles CAI and JIU in Mandarin Chinese. Linguistics, 37.4: 625-661. (SSCI)

 (二) 教科書及教科書篇章 (Textbook / Textbook chapters)

1. Lai, Huei-ling. 2018. What can we do to preserve endangered languages? (面對瀕臨死亡的語言我們能做些什麼?). In Wang-Long Li (Eds.) Read Science 2 (閱讀科學大師2), 77-101. Tainan: NCKU Publication  (成大出版社).(In Chinese) 

2. Lai, Huei-ling. 2017. Semantics (語意學). Taipei: Wu-Nan (五南出版社).(In Chinese)

(三) 研討會/會議論文 (Conference presentations / Proceedings)

1. Yeh, Chiou-shing, Huei-ling Lai, and Jyi-Shane Liu. 2024. The construction of Taiwan Hakka Corpus version 1.0 and the progressive development of version 2.0 (臺灣客語語料庫1.0版建置成果與2.0版漸進發展). Paper presented at Sinologists in Bydgoszcz: The 2nd International Conference on Chinese Languages, Literature, and Culture (SinB-2024), May 17-18, Kazimierz Wielki University, Poland. (Virtual presentation).

2. Hsu, Hsiao-ling, and Huei-ling Lai. 2024. Behavioral profiles of fortune and luck in English: A corpus-based study of near-synonymous abstract nouns. Paper presented at 2024 International Conference on Applied Linguistics & Languages Teaching (ALLT-2024), April 19-20, Taipei, Taiwan. (poster presentation)

3. Yeh, Chiou-Shing and Huei-ling Lai. 2023. Metadata and text classification: Application to Taiwan Hakka Corpus (後設資料與文本分類：《臺灣客語語料庫》之應用). The 3rd Conference of LIS and Practices, (CoLISP 2023). December 8-9, 2023. National Central Library, Taipei, Taiwan.

4. Yeh, Chiou-Shing, Huei-Ling Lai, and Jyi-Shane Liu. 2023. The Pilot Study and Model Construction for Word Segmentation in Taiwan Hakka. ROCLING 2023, October 20-21, 2023. Soochow University, Taipei.

5. Hsu, Hsiao-Ling, Huei-ling Lai, and Jyi-Shane Liu. 2023. DEMOCRACY IS A BUILDING in Taiwanese presidential addresses: A discourse-historical approach. The 24th National Conference on Linguistics (NCL24), October 28, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

6. Lai, Huei-ling and Hsiao-Ling Hsu. 2023. Metaphor of CAT and DOG in Taiwan Hakka proverbial expressions. The 18th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA2023), July 9-14,  Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

7.  Hsu, Hsiao-Ling, Huei-ling Lai, and Jyi-Shane Liu. Fighting for democracy: Ideological implications embedded in the scenarios of WAR. The 18th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA2023), July 9-14, 2023, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

8. Lai, Huei-ling, and Chiou-shing Yeh. 2023. Taiwan Hakka Segmentation and POS Tagging (客語文字斷詞與詞性標記). The International Conference on Han Characters and Labels (漢字與語言表記國際研討會), January 13, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan.

9. Lai, Huei-ling. 2022. Taiwan Hakka Corpus: Construction, current development and prospect (臺灣客語語料庫: 建置、現況與展望). The 34th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2022), November 21-22,  Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan. (Special session speech)

10.  Yeh, Chiou-shing, and Huei-ling Lai 2022. Endangerment of Taiwan Hakka and the introduction of Taiwan Hakka Corpus. (臺灣客語瀕危現況及臺灣客語語料庫介紹). The 72nd annual conference of the Chinese Linguistic Society of Japan, November 5-6, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan. (Virtual presentation)

11. Yeh, Chiou-shing, and Huei-ling Lai. 2022. Differences of written and spoken texts in Taiwan Hakka Corpus: Evidence from high-frequency words distribution. (從高頻詞分佈看臺灣客語語料庫之書面與口語語料差異). The 34th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-34), September 24-25, Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana, United States. (Virtual presentation)

12. Hsu, Hsiao-Ling, Huei-ling Lai, and Jyi-Shane Liu. 2022. Metaphor of DEMOCRACY and democratization in Taiwanese political discourse. The 15th Researching and Applying Metaphor Conference (RaAM15), September 21-24, University of Bialystok, Poland. (Virtual presentation)

13.  Yeh, Chiou-shing, and Huei-ling Lai. 2022. Coping with rare or missing characters, multiple codes of the same character, and character variants in  Taiwan Hakka Corpus. (試探客語難字缺字、一字多碼與異體字議題：以臺灣客語語料庫為例). The 14th International Conference on Taiwanese Languages and Teaching & "The Voice of Transformation" in Taiwan Studies, August 27-28, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.

14.  Lai, Huei-ling, Hsiao-Ling Hsu, Jyi-Shane Liu, Chia-Hung Lin, and Yanhong Chen. 2021. Supervised Word Sense Disambiguation on Taiwan Hakka Polysemy with Neural Network Models: A Case Study of BUN, TUNG and LAU. The 35th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation (PACLIC 35), November 5-7, China. (Virtual presentation)

15. Wu, Shuang-Yu and Huei-ling Lai. 2021. A Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Analysis of Mandarin Gustatory Term kǔ and Japanese equivalent nigai: A Corpus- based Approach. (漢日味覺詞「苦」和「苦い(nigai)」跨語言與跨文化分析:以語料庫為本). The 12th International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities, December 10-12, Taiwan.

16. Lai, Huei-ling. 2021. Hakka-oriented research: Language universality and variation (以「客」為尊:語言的殊性與共性). The 7th Conference on Taiwan Hakka Language and Literature, October 2, Taiwan. (Keynote speech)

17. Wu, Shuang-Yu and Huei-ling Lai. 2021. Analyses of Synesthesia Metaphor of tian and its Implications for Chinese Language Teaching. (通感詞「甜」的隱喻分析與華語教學啟示). The 13th World Conference on Chinese Language Teaching, July 9-11, Taiwan.

18.  Yeh, Chiou-shing, Huei-ling Lai, and Jyi-Shane Liu. 2020. The Construction of Taiwan Hakka Corpus and its Preliminary Data Analysis (臺灣客語語料庫建置與初步資料分析). The 11th International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities (DADH2020), December 1-4, Taiwan.

19.  Lai, Huei-ling and Chiou-shing Yeh. 2020. The Construction of Taiwan Hakka Corpus : Current Development and Prospect (臺灣客語語料庫建置：現況與展望).  The 21st National Conference on Linguistics (NCL2020), November 14, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

20.  Lai, Huei-ling, Hsiao-Ling Hsu, Jyi-Shane Liu, Chia-Hung Lin and Yanhong Chen. 2020. Supervised word sense disambiguation on polysemy with bidirectional LSTM: A case study of BUN in Taiwan Hakka. The 21st Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW 2020), May 28-30, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

21.  Wu, Shuang-Yu and Huei-ling Lai. 2020. Perspectives of Lexical-Constructional and Text-Pragmatics Interactions on the New Passive Construction in Taiwan Mandarin. The 21st Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW 2020), May 28-30, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. (Poster session)

22. Hsu, Hsiao-Ling and Huei-ling Lai. 2020. Metaphorical extensions in semantic change: A case study of zài nàbiān construction in spoken Taiwan Mandarin. The 21st Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW 2020), May 28-30, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. (Poster session)

23. Tsai, Tsi-Chuen and Huei-ling Lai. 2019. May and Can Constructions in Spoken Corpus: A Constructionist Approach. The 33rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation (PACLIC 33), Sep 13-15, Hakodate, Japan.

24.  Lai, Huei-ling. 2019. Playful Metaphors in Hakka Jokes and Pragmatic-Cultural Implications. The 15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-15), August 6-11, 2019, Nishinomiya, Japan.

25. Hsu, Hsiao-ling, Huei-ling Lai, and Jyi-Shane Liu. 2019. ECONOMY metaphors in political discourse. The 15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-15), August 6-11, 2019, Nishinomiya, Japan. (Poster session)

26. Lai, Huei-ling. 2019. Play on Words in Hakka Jokes and Pragmatic-Cultural Implications. The 16th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA-16), June 9-14, 2019, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.

27. Hsu, Hsiao-ling, Huei-ling Lai, and Jyi-Shane Liu. 2019. Metaphor scenarios and framing strategies in political discourse in Taiwan on the concept of democracy. The 16th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA-16), June 9-14, 2019, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.

28. Hsu, Hsiao-ling, and Huei-ling Lai. 2019. Metaphor structures and profiling strategies in political discourse on the concept of democracy. The 27th Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-27), May 10-12, 2019, Kobe, Japan.

29. Tsai, Tsi-Chuen and Huei-ling Lai. 2018. The Functions of Must-constructions in Spoken Corpus: A Constructionist Perspective. The 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation (PACLIC 32), Dec 1-3, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. (Poster session)

30.  Hsu, Hsiao-ling, Huei-ling Lai, and Jyi-Shane Liu. 2018. Body-part metonymy and metonymy-based metaphor in Chinese: Evidence from a corpus-based study on body-part terms. The 19th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW 2018), May 26-28, Chiayi, Taiwan. (Poster session)

31.  Lai, Huei-ling, and Chao-Lin Liu. 2017. Collocation Analysis in News Corpora and its Implication to News Values. The 8th International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities (DADH2017), November 29 - December 1, Taipei, Taiwan.

32. Hsu, Hsiao-ling, Huei-ling Lai, and Jyi-Shane Liu. 2017. Near Synonymous Body-Part Terms in Chinese: A Corpus-Based Study. The 8th International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities (DADH2017), November 29 - December 1, Taipei, Taiwan.

33. Hsu, Hsiao-ling, Huei-ling Lai, and Jyi-Shane Liu. 2017. Meaning Extensions, Word Component Structures and Their Distribution: Linguistic Usages Containing Body-Part Terms Liǎn/Miàn, Yǎn/Mù and Zuǐ/Kǒu in Taiwan Mandarin. In: Ekštein K., Matoušek V. (eds) Text, Speech, and Dialogue. TSD 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10415. Springer, Cham. 

34. Lai, Huei-ling. 2017. Refining newsworthiness through collocation analysis in news discourse. The 15th International Pragmatics Conference, July 16-21, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

35. Liu, Chao-Lin, Shu-hua Zhang, Yuan-li Geng, Huei-ling Lai and Hong-su Wang. 2017. Character Distributions of Classical Chinese Literary Texts: Zipf’s Law, Genres, and Epochs. The International Conference of Digital Humanities (DH-2017), August 8-11. Montreal, Canada.

36. Lai, Huei-ling, Yi-Lun Weng, and Chao-Lin Liu. 2016. Employing digital tools to re-examine distributional hypothesis: A case study of Kèjiā ‘Hakka’ in news corpora. The 7th International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities (DADH-2016), December 1-3. National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. 

37. Lai, Huei-ling, Yi-Lun Weng, and Chao-Lin Liu. 2016. Measuring collocation strength with digital tools: An analysis of Kèjiā ‘Hakka’ in Taiwan news corpora. The 2016 International Conference on Innovation Studies (IS-2016), November 12-13. National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan.

38. Hsu, Hsiao-ling, Huei-ling Lai, and Jyi-Shane Liu. 2016. Word constituents and meaning distributions of body-part terms- A case study of face (lian3/mian4), eye (yan3/mu4) and mouth (zui3/kou3). The 2016 International Conference on Innovation Studies (IS-2016), November 12-13. National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan.

39. Wang, Yun-Chien and Huei-ling Lai. 2016. Digital archives and application of the NCCU corpus of spoken Hakka. The 2016 International Conference on Innovation Studies (IS-2016), November 12-13. National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan.

40. Li, shih-min and Huei-ling Lai. 2016. From Verbs to Conjunctions: Grammaticalization and lexicalization of Go3 in Hakka(從動詞到連接詞：臺灣客語「過」之語法化和詞彙化). The 11th International Symposium on Taiwanese Languages and Teaching (IsTLT-2016), July 12-13. Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

41. Yeh, Chiou-shing and Huei-ling Lai. 2016. The syntactic and semantic features and emergence of mood of chog8 in Taiwan Hakka (臺灣客語「著(chog8)」的句法語意屬性及其情態浮現). The 11th International Symposium on Taiwanese Languages and Teaching ((IsTLT-2016), July 12-13. Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

42. Lai, Huei-ling. 2016. The emergence of metaphor in media discourse: Evidence from < ngangjiang stiff neck> in Taiwan Hakka. The 17th National Conference on Linguistics (NCL2016), May 23-24. Tatung University (TTU), Taipei, Taiwan. (Keynote speech)

43. Lai, Huei-ling, Shao-chun Hsu, and Chao-lin Liu. 2015. Hakka symbolic code <nganggiang stiff neck>: An analysis of its innovative development in Taiwan newspapers. The International Conference on Corpus Linguistics and Technology Advancement 2015 (CoLTA 2015), December 16-18. The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong.

44. Lai, Huei-ling, Yen-Ju Chen, and Shao-chun Hsu. 2015. Hěn X Constructions in Spoken Corpora: A Syntactic and Semantic Analysis. The International Conference on Corpus Linguistics and Technology Advancement 2015 (CoLTA 2015), December 16-18. The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong.

45. Chen, Yen-Ju, Huei-ling Lai, and Shao-Chun Hsu. 2015. The Syntactic and Semantic Analysis of Hěn X Constructions in Spoken Corpora. Proceedings of the 29th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation (PACLIC-29), 286-292. October 30 - November 1. Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.

46. Lai, Huei-ling. 2015. Proverbial Expressions in Hakka: Linguistic and Cultural Constraints. The 2015 International Conference on Applied Linguistics (ICAL2015), May 30-31. National Chiayi University, Chiayi, Taiwan.

47. Lai, Huei-ling. 2014. Cultural Perspectives of Proverbial Constructions: Hakka Evidence. The 8th International Conference of Construction Grammar (ICCG 8), September 3-6. University of Osnabrück, Germany.

48. Yeh, Chiou-shing, and Huei-ling Lai. 2013. A Multi-dimensional Study of the speculative adverbs giang1pa3 and gam2pa3 in Taiwanese Hakka. (臺灣客語揣測情態副詞「驚怕」與「敢怕」之多角度辨析). Proceedings of the 63th annual conference of the Chinese Linguistic Society of Japan, pp. 265-269. October 26-27. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan.

49. Yeh, Chiou-shing, Huei-ling Lai, and Chun Chang. 2013. Psych-verbs in Sinitic Languages: Lexical Properties, Constructions and Speaker’s Epistemological Stances. The 19th International Congress of Linguistics (CIL-19), July 22-27. University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.

50. Lai, Huei-ling, and Chiou-shing Yeh. 2013. Metaphor in Hakka Proverbial Expressions: Specificity and Genericity of Cultural Constraints. The 12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-12), June 23-28. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

51.  Chen, Yi-chen, and Huei-ling Lai. 2013. Teaching Metaphor and Metonymy of Emotion Expressions: The Effects of Metaphoric Mapping Approach. Paper presented at the 12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-12), June 23-28. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

52. Yeh, Chiou-shing, and Huei-ling Lai. 2013b. The emergence of the evaluative adverb ho2ded4 in Taiwan Hakka: An integrated approach of grammaticalization and lexicalization. Paper presented at the 12th  International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-12), June 23-28. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

53.  Yeh, Chiou-shing, and Huei-ling Lai. 2013a. The Usage and Grammaticalization of Evaluative Modals in Taiwanese Hakka: A Corpus-based perspective (以語料庫之觀點分析臺灣客語評價性情態詞之用法及其語法化歷程). The 21th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-21), June 7-9. National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.

54. Liu, Hsiao-chien, Shu-Chuan Tseng, and Huei-ling Lai. 2013. A usage-based perspective on the comparison between directional complement constructions in Hakka and Mandarin Chinese. The 21th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-21), June 7-9. National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.

55. Chen, Yi-chen, and Huei-ling Lai. 2012b. Being Aware is not Enough: Learning Metaphor and Metonymy through Cognitive-oriented Methods. The 2012 Applied Linguistics Association of Australia National Conference (ALAA), November 12-14. Curtin University, Perth, Australia.

56. Lai, Huei-ling, and Shu-chen Lu. 2012. Semantic distributions of the color terms black and white in Taiwanese languages. Proceedings of the 26th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation (PACLIC-26), 179-186. November 8-10. Universitas Indonesia, Bali, Indonesia.

57. Yeh, Chiou-shing, and Huei-ling Lai. 2012b. Modal development of ho2ded4 in Taiwan Hakka: Grammaticalization, Lexicalization and Subjectivity (臺灣客語「好得」之情態演變：語法化、詞彙化及主觀性). Proceedings of the 62th annual conference of the Chinese Linguistic Society of Japan, 135-139. October 27-28. Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan.

58. Li, shih-min, and Huei-ling Lai. 2012b. Corpus-based Approaches to Taiwan Hakka Go3 Constructions: Motion Event-frame Viewpoints (從語料庫看臺灣客語「過」構式：運動事件框架觀點). The 20th Annual Conference of the IACL (IACL-20) (國際中國語言學學會第20屆年會), August 29-31. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, PRC.

59. Li, shih-min, and Huei-ling Lai. 2012a. Go3 Constructions in Hakka: Windowing of paths in Motion Event-Frame. The 7th International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG-7), August 10-12. Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea.

60. Yeh, Chiou-shing, and Huei-ling Lai. 2012a. The Multi-functions of tin7 in Taiwanese Hakka: Grammaticalization and Lexicalization. The New Reflections on Grammaticalisation V (NRG-5), July 16-19. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, England.      

61. Tseng, Po-wen, and Huei-ling Lai. 2012. The emergence of imperative and evaluative meanings: evidence from Taiwanese languages. The New Reflections on Grammaticalisation V (NRG-5), July 16-19. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, England.

62. Lai, Huei-ling. 2012. Regularity and Idiomaticity: A Continuum. The 13th National Conference on Linguistics (NCL2012), May 23-24. Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Tainan, Taiwan. (Keynote speech)

63. Chen, Yi-chen, and Huei-ling Lai. 2012a. Learning Metaphor and Metonymy: A Comparison of Two Cognitive-oriented Methods. The 6th Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition (CLDC2012), May 4-6. National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

64. Yeh, Chiou-shing, and Huei-ling Lai. 2011. Logical Information Processing of Possibility and Negation: Cases from Taiwanese Hakka. Proceedings of the 25th Pacific Asia Conference on Language Information and Computing (PACLIC-25), 70-79. December 16-18. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

65. Chen, Yi-chen, and Huei-ling Lai. 2011. The Effects of EFL Learners’ Awareness and Retention in Learning Metaphoric and Metonymic Expressions. Proceedings of the 25th Pacific Asia Conference on Language Information and Computing (PACLIC-25), 541-548. December 16-18. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

66. Peng, Xiao-zhen, and Huei-ling Lai. 2011b. Conceptual Metaphors and Metonymies of Classifiers and Measure Words in Taiwan Hakka. The 11th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-11). July 11-17. Xi’an International Studies University, Xi’an, PRC.

67. Chen, Yi-chen, and Huei-ling Lai. 2011b. EFL learners' comprehension of metaphor: The impact of cultural universality and specificity. The 11th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-11). July 11-17. Xi’an International Studies University, Xi’an, PRC.

68. Peng, Xiao-zhen, and Huei-ling Lai. 2011a. Idiomatic Classifier/Measure Word Constructions in Taiwan Hakka: A Metonymy-Metaphor Interaction Perspective. The Conference on Metaphor and Communication. May 12-14. University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy. 

69. Chen, Yi-chen, and Huei-ling Lai. 2011a. Cultural factors in EFL learners' comprehension of metaphor: A case study of anger expressions. The 2011 International Conference and Workshop on TEFL and Applied Linguistics. March 10-12. Ming Chuan University, Taoyuan, Taiwan. 

70. Chiang, Shu-mei, and Huei-ling Lai. 2010b. The polysemous modality function of Hakka ho2: A lexical and constructional account (從詞彙與構式看客語「好」字之多義情態功能). Proceedings of the 60th annual conference of the Chinese Linguistic Society of Japan, 279-280. November 13-14. Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan.

71. Yeh, Chiou-shing, and Huei-ling Lai. 2010. A Study on the development of grammatical functions and semantic investigation of the morpheme gam2 in Hakka (客語「敢」字之語法功能演變與語意探究). Proceedings of the 60th annual conference of the Chinese Linguistic Society of Japan, 312-316. November 13-14. Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan.

72. Li, Shih-min, and Huei-ling Lai. 2010c. On (im)perfectivity of do2/den2 (著) in Taiwan Hakka: A corpus analysis (台灣客語方言完成體與持續體之關係探索：語料庫觀點). The 9th International Conference of Hakka Studies (第九屆國際客家方言研討會). October 19-22. Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, PRC.

73. Chiang, Shu-mei, and Huei-ling Lai. 2010a. Argument mismatches of Hakka potentiality-charactering constructions: Frames, constructions and information structure. The 6th International Conference of Construction Grammar (ICCG-6). September 3-5. Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. (NSC 99-2411-H-004-185)

74. Li Shih-min, and Huei-ling Lai. 2010b. Understanding and classifying the causal relations of the causative BUN construction in Hakka. The 6th International Conference of Construction Grammar (ICCG-6). September 3-5. Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. (NSC 99-2411-H-004-185)

75. Li, Shih-min, and Huei-ling Lai. 2010a. An analysis of (im)perfectivity of do2/den2 (著) in Hakka: Interaction of lexical semantics and construction (客語兼表完成貌與持續貌「著」之探討：詞彙語意與構式互動的觀點). The 18th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-18) and the 22th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-22). May 20-22. Harvard University, Boston, USA.  

76. Lai, Huei-ling, and Yi-chen Chen. 2010. The effects of EFL learners' application of metaphor and metonymy in learning and retaining emotion expressions. The 2010 International Conference on Applied Linguistics & Language Teaching (ALLT). April 15-17. National Taiwan University of Science & Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.

77. Lai, Huei-ling. 2009b. The interaction of lexical semantics and constructions: Present and Future (詞彙語意與構式的互動：現況與展望). The Mini-workshop on Interaction of Lexical Semantics and Constructions (「詞彙語意與構式的互動」小型工作坊). November 14. National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan.

78. Lai, Huei-ling, and Shih-min Li. 2009. The syntactic and semantic extension of Hakka GUO: A cross-categorical perspective (客語「過」構式句法及語意之衍變：跨範疇之觀點). Proceedings of the 59th annual conference of the Chinese Linguistic Society of Japan, 257-261. October 24-25. Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

79. Chiang, Shu-mei, and Huei-ling Lai. 2009. Form-function mismatches in non-referential interrogatives: A case study of iu1 ma4ge3 ho2 V constructions in Hakka (無指疑問句之「形式—功能」誤配：客語「有麼介好V」構式研究). Proceedings of the 59th annual conference of the Chinese Linguistic Society of Japan, 262-266. October 24-25. Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

80. Yeh, Chiou-shing and Huei-ling Lai. 2009. Argument realization and transitivity of a family of da2 constructions in Hakka: A Construction Grammar account (以構式語法觀點談客語「打」字群之論元體現與及物性). Proceedings of the 59th annual conference of the Chinese Linguistic Society of Japan, 228-232. October 24-25. Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

81.  Li, Shih-min, and Huei-ling Lai. 2009. Interaction of aspect and construction: Evidence from the ted4 construction in Hakka. The 17th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-17). July 2-4. EHESS, Paris, France. 

82. Lai, Huei-ling. 2009a. The NCCU Corpus of Spoken Chinese: Hakka Corpus. Multi-Development and Application of Languages and Linguistics. May 15-16. National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan. (Keynote speech)

83. Lai, Huei-ling, and Shih-min Li. 2008. Hakka Corpus: Construction and Application (客語語料庫的建構及應用). The 8th International Conference of Hakka Dialects (第八屆國際客家方言研討會). November 22-24. National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.

84. Lai, Huei-ling, and Wan-jyun Luo. 2008. The implicit theme construction in Hakka: Interaction of structure, meaning and discourse. The 5th International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG-5). September 26-28. The University of Texas at Austin, USA. (NSC 97-2411-H-004-110-MY2)

85. Lai, Huei-ling, and Chiou-shing Yeh. 2008. Causative constructions with or without causative markers: Cases from Hakka. The 5th International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG-5). September 26-28. The University of Texas at Austin, USA. (NSC 97-2411-H-004-110-MY2)

86. Chiang, Shu-mei, and Huei-ling Lai. 2008. Argument Realization in the Family of Potential Constructions in Hakka. The 18th International Congress of Linguistics (CIL-18). July 21-26. Korea University, Seoul, Korea.

87. Lai, Huei-ling. 2008b. 'Putting' and 'Removing' in Hakka: Argument Structure, Constructions and Information Management. The 18th International Congress of Linguistics (CIL-18). July 21-26. Korea University, Seoul, Korea.

88. Lai, Huei-ling. 2008a. A Corpus-based Exploration of Research Topics on Hakka Grammar. 行政院客家委員會96年度補助大學暨獎助學術研究計畫成果發表會. June 6. National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.

89. Chui, Kawai, Huei-ling Lai, and Hui-chen Chan. 2008. The NCCU Corpus of Spoken Chinese: Mandarin, Hakka, and Southern Min. Proceedings of the 7th Annual Wenshan International Symposium (Theme: Spoken Corpus: Language Documentation and Applications), 68-100. May 19. National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan.

90. Chiang, Shu-mei, and Huei-ling Lai. 2007. Evaluating and comparing in an implicit way: A case study of NP1 V NP2 m5 X constructions in Hakka. The 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10). July 15-20. Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.

91. Lai, Huei-ling, and Shu-mei Chiang. 2007. The family of Hakka idiomatic gin2 X gin2 Y constructions: Paratactic constructions with subordinate meanings. The 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10). July 15-20. Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.

92. Luo, Wan-jyun, and Huei-ling Lai. 2007. “piong3” 'put' and its variants in Hakka: Frames and Constructions. The 8th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW-8). May 21-23. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.

93. Chiang, Shu-mei, and Huei-ling Lai. 2006. A Family of NP1 V NP2 m5 X constructions in Hakka. The 4th International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG-4). September 1-3. The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

94. Lai, Huei-ling. 2006b. Lien…ya/du constructions in Hakka. The 4th International Conference on Construction Grammar  (ICCG-4). September 1-3. The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

95. Lai, Huei-ling. 2006a. The interaction patterns of two-part allegorical sayings: A typological perspective. IACL-14 & IsCLL-10 Joint Conference. May 25-29. Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

96. Lai, Huei-ling, and Hui-shan Gao. 2005. Linguistic manifestation of human thinking process: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese. Proceedings of 2005 International Symposium on Body & Cognition: A Multidisciplinary Perspective, 13-1~12-20. June 4-5. National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

97. Lai, Huei-ling. 2005b. A taxonomic framework for two-part allegorical sayings. The 9th International Cognitive Linguistics conference (ICLC 2005). July 17-22. Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.

98. Lai, Huei-ling. 2005a. The semantic division of labor of BUN, LAU, TUNG in Hakka. Symposium on 90-92 NSC Projects. May 28-29. National Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.

99. Chiang, Shu-mei, and Huei-ling Lai. 2004. Verbs of urging in Hakka: A perspective from force-dynamics. The 5th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW-5), ed. by Ji Dong Hong, Lua Kim Teng, and Wang Hui, 316-320. June 14-16. National University of Singapore, Singapore.

100. Lai, Huei-ling. 2004c. Iconic coding of conceptualization: Hakka reduplicative constructions. Proceedings of the Second Workshop of Chinese Dialects (第二屆漢語方言小型研討會─客家語研究), 33-47. May 22-23. Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

101. Lai, Huei-ling. 2004b. Mental space links between expectations: Hakka SI as an evaluative indicator. Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-9), 333-350. November 19-21. National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

102. Lai, Huei-ling. 2004a. Same constructions but different grammaticalization paths of Hakka LAU and TUNG. Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Taiwanese Languages and Teaching (第五屆台灣語言及教學國際學術研討會), 195-210. May 22-23. Prudence University, Taichung, Taiwan.

103. Lin, Su-chu, and Huei-ling Lai. 2002. On semantic relatedness of the Mandarin polysemous word CHU. Proceedings of the 1st Cognitive Linguistics Conference, 97-113. January 12-13. National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan.

104. Lai, Huei-ling. 2002c. The semantic extension of Hakka LAU: Metonymy through event frames. IACL-11. August 20-22. Aichi Prefectural University, Nagakute, Japan.

105. Lai, Huei-ling. 2002b. The metonymic process of Hakka LAU. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Chinese Lexical Semantics, 41-56. May 1-3. Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

106. Lai, Huei-ling. 2002a. Hakka LAU constructions: A constructional approach. Proceedings of the 1st Cognitive Linguistics Conference, 66-81. January 12-13. National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan.

107. Lai, Huei-ling. 2001. The grammaticalization of Hakka BUN. Proceedings of the Symposium on Selected NSC Projects in General Linguistics from 1998-2000 (八十九年度語言學門 <一般語言學> 研究成果發表會), 431-449. National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

108. Lai, Huei-ling. 2000b. The polygrammaticalization of Hakka BUN. Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-7), 213-231. National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan.

109. Lai, Huei-ling. 2000a. The lexicalization patterns of verbs of hitting in Hakka. Proceedings of the 2000 NCCU Teachers' Conference on Linguistics Research, 200-211. National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan.

110. Lai, Huei-ling. 1999. From verb to verbal complement: Evidence from the verb DO in Hakka. The International Symposium on Grammaticalization. Potsdam University, Germany.

111. Lai, Huei-ling. 1996. The conditionals vs. CAI and JIU in Mandarin Chinese. ICCL-5. National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

112. Lai, Huei-ling. 1995b. Rejected expectations: two time-related scalar particles CAI and JIU in Mandarin Chinese. Proceedings of NACCL-7/ICCL-4, 151-168. Madison, Wisconsin.

113. Lai, Huei-ling. 1995a. The lian…ye/dou construction in Mandarin. The 65th annual meeting of Linguistics Society of America. New Orleans, USA.

114. Lai, Huei-ling. 1994. The interaction between topic-comment and focus-background structures: a study of the lian…ye/dou construction. Proceedings of a conference in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Journal of Semantics, 513-522. Heidelberg, Germany.