W. South Coblin
Professor Coblin, who received his Ph.D. from University of Washington in 1972, is Professor of Chinese at University of Iowa, department of Asian Languages and Literature. His primary research interests are Chinese historical phonology and dialectology. He currently serves as the President of I.A.C.L. (International Association of Chinese Linguistics).
[Recent Publications]
Books and Monographs:
A Compendium of Phonetics in Northwest Chinese, Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monograph Series Number 7, Berkeley, 1994.
Francisco Varo's Grammar of the Mandarin Language (1703), W. South Coblin and Joseph A. Levi, Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2000.
Journal Articles:
"Tone and Tone Sandhi in Early Qing Guanhua," Yuen Ren Society Treasury of Chinese Dialect Data 2 (1996), pp. 43-57.
Jerry L. Norman and W. South Coblin, "A New Approach to Chinese Historical Linguistics," JAOS 115.4 (1995), pp. 576-584.
"Palatalization of velars in the Nanking Dialect," BSOAS 60 (1997), pp. 533-537.
"Notes on the Sound System of Late Ming Guanhua," MS 45 (1997), pp. 261-307.
"Francisco Varo and the Sound System of Early Ming Mandarin," JAOS 118.2 (1998), pp. 262-267.
"Thoughts on the Identity of the Chinese 'Phags-pa Dialect," Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monograph Series no. 15, Issues in Chinese Dialect Description and Classification, ed. Richard V. Simmons. Berkeley, 1999. pp. 84-144.
"Contact, Drift, and Convergence in Nanking Guanhua," Hanyushi yanjiu jikan 1999.2, pp. 379-431.
"Late Apicalization in Nankingese," JCL 28 (2000), pp. 52-66.
"A Diachronic Study of Ming Gu1anhu4a Phonology," MS 48 (2000), pp. 267-335.
"The Phonology of Proto-Central Jiang-Huai: An Exercise in Comparative Reconstruction", in In Memory of Professor Li Fang-Kuei: Essays of Linguistic Change and the Chinese Dialects, Taipei and Seattle: Academia Sincia and the University of Washington. 2000. pp. 73-140.
"'Phags-pa Chinese and the Standard Reading Pronunciation of Early Ming: A Comparative Study." Language and Linguistics 2.2 (2001), pp. 1-62.
Dah-an Ho
Professor Dah-an Ho got his Ph. D. degree at National Taiwan University, Taiwan, 1981. He is interested in historical linguistics, language evolution, and sociolinguistics. He has published monographs and articles in the field of Chinese historical phonology, Chinese dialectology, and Austronesian linguistics. He has been elected the 1996-2000 president of Chinese Phonology Association, and is currently the director and Research Fellow of the Institute of Linguistics (Preparatory Office), Academia Sinica. He is now conducting a national digital archives project for Academia Sinica.
C.-T. James Huang
Professor Huang, who received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1982, is Professor of Linguistics at Harvard University. Prior to his current position he has also taught at University of California (Irvine), Cornell University, Univ. of Hawai'i, and National Tsing Hua in Taiwan. A specialist in syntactic theory, his primary research interests are natural language syntax and the relationship between syntax and semantics, with particular reference to Chinese and East Asian languages in theoretical perspective. In addition to Chinese linguistics, his work contributed to the development of several aspects of current generative grammatical theory. He has published some 50 articles in leading linguistic journals and has given invited lectures throughout the USA, Asia and Europe. Most recent titles include "Two types of donkey sentences," in Natural Language Semantics (with Lisa Cheng, 1996), "Chinese passives in comparative perspective," in Tsing Hua Studies (1999), and Syntax and Semantics 33 (Academic Press, 2001).
Professor Huang is the recipient of several awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship (1989-90) and a fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1997 -98). Among his professional activities, he is Founding Editor of the Journal of East Asian Linguistics. In 2000-2001, he served as President of IACL. To read a profile article on Professor Huang published in a resent issue of the Harvard Gazette, Linguistics at Harvard University.
Marie-Claude Paris
Professor PARIS received her graduate education in general and in Chinese linguistics both in France (Sorbonne) and in the United States (Princeton University). A former member of the C.N.R.S. (National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris), she is currently Professor of Chinese linguistics at Paris 7 University, France and Member of the I.U.F. (Institut Universitaire de France). She has taught both in America and in Asia (Cornell University and Hong Kong Baptist University) and has been awarded several research grants. She is or has been on the board of different academic institutions, among which the I.A.C.L. (International Association of Chinese Linguistics), the E.A.C.S. (European Association of Chinese Studies) and the E.A.C.L. (European Association of Chinese Linguistics). She is currently vice-president and president-elect of the IACL. Together with R. Djamouri (CNRS) she is currently editing the journal 'Cahiers de Linguistique - Asie Orientale'. She has written extensively on the interface between syntax and semantics in contemporary Chinese, and especially on quantification and its relationship with focus and presupposition.
E-mail: mcparis@linguist.jussieu.fr
[Recent publications]
Syntaxe et semantique de quatre marqueurs de transitivite en chinois standard: ba, bei jiao et rang. Colloque sur "La transitivite", U. de Lille III. Lille: Presses du Septentrion. 355-370. (1998)
The interaction between focus operators and types of VPs in Mandarin Chinese. Cahiers de Linguistique-Asie Orientale. 27.2. 139-159. (1998)
Ordre des mots, topique et focus en chinois contemporain. In La thematisation dans les langues. C. Guimier (ed). Actes du Colloque de Caen, 9/11-10-1997. Sciences pour la communication 53. 201-216. Berne : P. Lang. (1999)
Condition et conditionnelles en chinois contemporain. Cahiers de Linguistique - Asie Orientale 28.2.227-251. (1999)
Le chinois. Lalies 20. 6-60. (2000)
Where has the new information gone ? ZAS Papers in Linguistics 20. 71-84. (2002)
Linguistique generale et linguistique chinoise, vol II. Paris : L'Harmattan (to appear)
Masayuki Nakagawa
Professor. Nakagawa, who was born in Hiroshima Prefecture in 1945, is Professor of Chinese at the Faculty of Cross Cultural Studies, Kobe University, Japan. He received B.A. degree in 1965 and M.A. degree in 1972 from Osaka University of Foreign Studies. Prof. Nakagawa is interested in contrastive studies between Chinese and Japanese. He is also interested in artificial composition of speech sounds. His publications include "Adjectives in Chinese and Japanese" 1987. 10. (Nihongo gaku, Meiji Shoin), "Word Order in Modern Chinese--A Cognitive Perspective--" 1994. (Current Issues in Sino-Tibetan Linguistics The Organizing Committee The 26th Inter-national Conference on Sino-Tibetan Language and Linguistics 1994), "The syntactic and semantic discrepancies between Chinese and Japanese borrowed words" 1997. (Hashimoto Mantaro Kinen Chugokugogaku Ronshu, Uchiyama shoten.) Prof. Nakagawa currently serves as the Chair of the Chinese Language and Society of Japan.