32.2003, Confs: Chinese, Wu; Gen Ling/Online

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LINGUIST List: Vol-32-2003. Wed Jun 09 2021. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 32.2003, Confs: Chinese, Wu; Gen Ling/Online

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Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2021 14:53:39
From: Yan Jiang [yj9 at soas.ac.uk]
Subject: Colloquium on Grammatical Studies of Chinese Wu Dialects

 
Colloquium on Grammatical Studies of Chinese Wu Dialects 
Short Title: Wu Colloquium 

Date: 14-Jul-2021 - 16-Jul-2021 
Location: Online, United Kingdom 
Contact: Conference Organizers 
Contact Email: language.dialects.china at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/chinese-language-dialects/home 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Wu (wuu)

Meeting Description: 

The present colloquium is the first of the planned annual colloquium on
Chinese language and dialects that is jointly organized by SOAS University of
London and Humboldt University of Berlin, with the aim to promote studies on
Chinese language and dialects in Europe and world-wide. We welcome other
universities to join us in co-organizing future meetings with different themes
and in hosting on-campus meetings when the Covid-19 pandemic is over.
 

Program Information: 

Wu Grammar Colloquium 
July 15 -16, 2021

Zoom Meeting 

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

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

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 12 July to both yj9 at soas.ac.uk and yan_jiang_hk at qq.com or
wechat SOAS-YJ with your name and affiliation for meeting links.





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