1. Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (Ph.D., USSR Academy of Sciences), professor of linguistics at the James Cook University of Australia, specializing in Linguistic typology and the Arawak language family (including Tariana) of the Brazilian Amazonia. She has extensive publications on Berber languages, Modern and Classical Hebrew, Ndu languages (Eastern Sepik, Papua-New Guinea), alongside a number of articles and monographs on various aspects of linguistic typology.

 

2. Cedric A. Boeckx (Ph.D., University of Connecticut), research professor at ICREA, Centre de Linguistica Teorica, University of Barcelona, Spain. He specializes in biolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, theoretical syntax, and linguistic minimalism, and has extensive publications in biolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, and syntax (Language in Cognition: Uncovering Mental Structures and the Rules Behind Them, Wiley-Blackwell 2009; Bare Syntax, Oxford 2008; Islands and Chains, John Benjamins 2003).

 

3. Pang-hsin Ting (Ph.D., University of Washington), professor emeritus of linguistics and ex-director of the Division of Humanities, Hongkong University of Science and Technology. He was the Agassiz Professor of Chinese Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley from 1994 to 1998. Professor Ting was Research Fellow and Director of the Institute of History and Philology at Academia Sinica (1985-1989), and Professor of Chinese Linguistics at National Taiwan University. He was elected to membership in Academia Sinica in 1986. An honorary member of the Linguistic Society of America, he was the chairman for the International Society of Chinese Linguistics from 1994-1998.

 

4. Robert Dixon (Ph.D., University of London), professor of linguistics at the James Cook University of Australia. His research interests lie in theoretically-informed description of previously undescribed languages, especially those from Australia, Amazonia and Oceania, the nature of human language, language evolution, and documentation. He is a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (elected 1998), Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (elected 1982), Linguistic Society of America elected Honorary Member 1987 (the number of Honorary Members is limited to 40 by the LSA constitution; they are spread over 25 countries). Selected publications include The Dyirbal language of North Queensland (1972, Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, 9). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; The rise and fall of languages. Cambridge University Press. 1997; A semantic approach to English grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

 

5. Feng Shengli (Ph.D., UPENN), professor and Director of Zhang Huang Institute of academic theory, School of language science, Beijing Language and Culture University. He held professorship at Department of East Asian of the Harvard University from 199x-200x. His specialties include exegesis, historical syntax, prosodic morphology, and prosodic syntax.

 

6. C. T. James Huang (Ph.D., MIT), professor of linguistics at Harvard University. As an prestigeousand leading linguist in Chinese and syntax, his research interests lie primarily in natural language syntax and the relationship between syntax and semantics. He is also particularly interested in theoretical approaches to the study of Chinese languages, and more broadly in parametric approaches to comparative grammar with a special focus on East Asian languages. Book publications include Logical Structure and Linguistic structure: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives (Kluwer Academic Publishers 1991), Long Distance Reflexives (Academic Press 2001) and more than sixty articles.

 

7. Howard Lasnik (Ph.D., MIT), professor of linguistics at the University of Maryland, specializing in syntax and minimalism. He has published five books, authored chapters in more than thirty books, along with twenty two journal articles. He was the Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America (2007), and editorial member on thirteen academic journals.

 

8. Audrey Y-H Li (Ph.D., University of Southern California), professor of linguistics at the University of Southern California. Her primary research interest is syntax, especially in ellipsis, word order, and noun phrases. Selected publications are Essays on the Representational and Derivational Nature of Grammar: The Diversity of Wh-Constructions (with Joseph Aoun，MIT Press)；Functional Structure(s), Form and Interpretation （with Andrew Simpson，Routledge Curzon Press）.

 

9. K. K. Luke (Ph.D., York), professor of the College of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. His research interests include discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, phonetics, and syntax, and Cantonese. Some of his publications are: Utterance Particles in Cantonese Conversation (1990); Auxiliary Verbs in Cantonese (1998).

10. Tao Hongyin (Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara), Professor of Chinese Language and Linguistics & Applied Linguistics and TESL at UCLA. His areas of expertise include Mandarin discourse and grammar (e.g., Units in Mandarin Conversation: Prosody, Discourse, and Grammar, John Benjamins, 1996); language and society and culture (e.g. Current Trends in Sociolinguistics, in Chinese, co-authered with D. Xu and T. Xie, 2nd edition, Zhongguo Sheke, 2004); applied linguistics (e.g., heritage language learning and research), and corpus linguistics (e.g. as co-coordinator of the US component of the International Corpus of English (ICE), the UCLA Corpus of Written Chinese and the Lancaster-Los Angeles Corpus of Spoken Chinese). He is on a number of editorial boards, including the Routledge Frequency Dictionaries series, the Journal of Chinese Language Teachers Association, and the Heritage Language Journal. Professor Tao’s most recent articles have appeared in Language, Journal of Chinese Language and Computing, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Journal of English Linguistics, Studies in Language, and Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory.

11. Elizabeth Traugott (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley), Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and English. She has done research in historical syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, lexicalization, socio-historical linguistics, and linguistics and literature. Her current research focuses on ways to bring the theories of grammaticalization and construction grammar to bear on accounts of micro-changes. Her publications include A History of English Syntax (1972), Linguistics for Students of Literature (1980; with Mary L. Pratt), On Conditionals (1986; co-edited with Alice ter Meulen, Judith Snitzer Reilly, and Charles A. Ferguson), Grammaticalization (1993, 2nd much revised ed. 2003; with Paul Hopper), Regularity in Semantic Change (2002; with Richard B. Dasher) and Lexicalization and Language Change (2005; with Laurel J. Brinton). She has been an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

 

12. William S. Y. Wang (Ph.D., University of Michigan), professor of Chinese linguistics and engineering linguistics. He was professor of Linguistics at the University of California in Berkeley from1966 to 1994. In 1973, he founded the Journal of Chinese Linguistics, the first international publication in the field, and continues as its editor till this day, with its office at the Project on Linguistic Analysis at Berkeley. After his official retirement, he served as Director of the Chao Yuen Ren Center for Chinese Linguistics and Professor of Graduate School at Berkeley until 2000. In 1995 Prof. Wang was appointed Chair Professor of Language Engineering at the City University of Hong Kong. In 2004 he moved to the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he is the Wei Lun Research Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering. The honors he has received include a Guggenheim Fellowship [New York], two fellowships from the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences [Stanford], a National Professorship from Sweden [Stockholm, Umea, Uppsala, and Lund], a resident fellowship from the Center for Advanced Studies at Bellagio [Italy], and a fellowship from the International Institute of Advanced Studies [Kyoto]. He was elected President of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics when it was founded in 1992 [ Singapore]. He is an Academician of the Academia Sinica [Taiwan], and serves on the Advisory Committees of the Institute of Linguistics, and of the Institute of Information Sciences. He is an Honorary Professor of Peking University. His publications include numerous articles in technical journals, and several encyclopedias, as well as in general science magazines, including American Scientist, Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [USA] and Scientific American. He has contributed to several encyclopedias, including "Speech" in the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, "Sino-Tibetan" in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, and "Origins of Language" in the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. In recent years, Prof. Wang has collaborated with biologists and computer scientists in a common search for the origin of language and patterns in language differentiation. At the Chinese University of Hong Kong, he continues his research on language from an interdisciplinary perspective, involving engineering, linguistics, and biological sciences.

 

13. Xu Jie (Ph.D., University of Maryland), professor of linguistics at Department of Chinese and interim Associate Dean of FSH, University of Macao. His areas of expertise include Chinese syntax, theoretical linguistics, semantics, and language acquisition. He has published more than thirty journal articles and is on several council or editorial board of academic journals.

 

14. F. S. Hsueh (Ph.D., University of Indiana), professor of linguistics at Ohio State University. His areas of expertise include Chinese linguistics and teaching Chinese as a second language. He was the chief editor for the Journal of Chinese Language Teachers.

 

15. Zhang Hongming (Ph.D., University of California at San Diego), Professor of linguistics at Department of East Asian Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin at Madison (UWD). His research interests lie in Chinese linguistics, interface between syntax & phonology, prosodic phonology, tonology, poetic prosody, history of Chinese language, Chinese philology and teaching Chinese as a second language. He is the executive secretary of the International Society of Chinese Linguistics and the Director of Chinese Division Overseas Student Center at UWM.

  

 Editorial Committee of Linguistic Sciences — Domestic Members

 

Chen Zhangtai            Institute of Applied Linguistics, Ministry of Education of China

Dai Qingxia             College of Minority Languages and Literature, Central University for Nationalities

Fan Xiao               Department of Chinese Language, Fudan University

Feng Zhiwei             Institute of Applied Linguistics, Ministry of Education of China

Gu Yueguo                     Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Guo Xiliang                    Department of Chinese Language, Peking University

He Da’an                Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica

Hou Jingyi                     Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Hu Mingyang            Department of Chinese Language, Renmin University of China

Huang Changning       Microsoft Research Asia

Jiang Lansheng          Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Li Yuming              Department of Language and Writing Information Administration, Ministry of Education

Liu Danqing             Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Lu Guoyao              Department of Chinese Language, Nanjing University

Lu Jianming             Department of Chinese Language, Peking University

Ning Chunyan            Institute of Linguistic, Tianjin Normal University

Pan Wuyun              Institute of Linguistics, Shanghai Normal University

Qiu Xigui               Research Center of Historical Documents and Scripts, Fudan University

Shao Jingmin                   Department of Chinese Language, Jinan University

Shen Jiaxuan             Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Su Xiaoqing              College of Literature, Xuzhou Normal University

Sun Hongkai             Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Wang Ning               Department of Chinese Language, Beijing Normal University

Yang Yufang             Institute of Psycholog, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Yao Xiaoping             Institute of Linguistics, Beijing Foreign Studies University

Yin Guoguang            Department of Chinese Language, Renmin University of China

Yu Genyuan              Department of Applied Linguistics, Communication University of China

Yu Shiwen               Institute of Computational Linguistics, Peking University

Zeng Xiantong            Department of Chinese Language, Sun Yat-sen University

Zeng Zhilang             Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica

Zhang Bojiang            Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Zhao Jinming                Center for Studies of Chinese as a Second Language, Beijing Language University

Zheng Jinquan            Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica