Wu Grammar Colloquium/吴方言语法研讨会
Key information
- Date
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- Time
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7:00 AM to 12:00 PM
- Venue
- Virtual Event
About this event
Zoom Meeting
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July 15, Beijing Time 13:00 -18:00 (BST:7:00-12:00)
Day 1 Meeting Coordinator: LIU Mingya
13:00-13:15 |
Welcome Note from the organizers |
13:15-14:00 |
LIU Danqing (Shenzhen University) What can be derived from the Interrogative what in Wu? – evidence from Wujiang and Suzhou dialects |
14:00-14:45 |
LI Xuping (Zhejiang University) Classifiers are for numerals or nouns in Wu Chinese: evidence from the Fuyang dialect |
14:45-15:30 |
break |
15:30-16:15 |
SHENG Yimin (Fudan University) Zai, you, shi and other cases – Type and evolution of locative verbs in Wu |
16:15-17:00 |
YANG Bei (Sun Yat-sen University) Sandhi patterns and syntactic structures in Shanghai dialect |
17:00-17:45 |
JIANG Yan (SOAS) On the time-encoding function of sentence-final particle keh in modern Shanghainese |
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July 16,Beijing Time 13:00 -18:00 (BST:7:00-12:00)
Day 2 Meeting Coordinator : JIANG Yan
13:00-13:45 |
LIN Su’E (Shanghai University) Oral stylistic variation and the evolution of patient topic sentences in Shanghainese at the end of the 19th century |
13:45-14:30 |
HU Xuhui (Peking University) & Joseph PERRY (University of Hong Kong) Multifunctionality and contextual allomorphy: a case-study in Yixing Chinese adjectival marking |
14:30-15:15 |
Keith TSE (Ronin Institute /IGDORE) Microvariation in Sinitic nominalisation: historical-comparative microparameters in Chinese dialects |
15:15-15:45 |
break |
15:45-16:30 |
SUN Xiaoxue (Zhejiang University) Structure for Telicity Phrases in Wu Chinese,using “爻” in Rui’An dialect as an example |
16:30-17:15 |
LIU Mingy (Humboldt University) Conditionals in Mandarin and Changzhou dialect: a comparative study |
17:15-18:00 |
YUAN Yulin & ZHANG Linli (Peking University) Counterfactual meaning expressed by simplex sentences in Suzhou dialect |
[Note:
a. Presentation time for each speaker: 45 minutes, including Q&A,
b. Working language: Mandarin and English, with data read in Wu,
c. Pre-registration required for conference attendance (non-presenters), please write by 12th July to both yj9@soas.ac.uk and yan_jiang_hk@qq.com or wechat SOAS-YJ with your name and affiliation for meeting links.