Invited Seminars and Plenary Lectures (1999-)

1999

• How Far Can Chinese Verbs Go? Department of Chinese, Translation, and Linguistics Seminar, City University of Hong Kong, February 22, 1999.
  
  
• Some Notes on the Syntax of Clefts: Evidence from Dak in Cantonese. The Postgraduate Program in Linguistics, Department of Modern Languages & Intercultural Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, September 22, 1999.

2000

• On the Categorial Status of Tense. The Institute of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, May 24, 2000.

2001

• Some notes on temporal predicate nominals in Chinese. Departmental Forum, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, February 22, 2001.

• 語言差異的一個原因——移位 [Movement and Language Variation]. 解放軍外國語學院，洛陽，October 8, 2001 [PLA University of Foreign Languages, Luoyang]

• 句法移位與詞序差異 [Syntactic Movement and Word Order Variation]. 北京大學漢語語言學研究中心，October 18, 2001 [Peking University, Beijing]
  

• 漢語雙賓語結構的句法分析 [Syntactic Analysis of the Chinese Double Object Construction]. 北京大學漢語語言學研究中心，October 19, 2001 [Peking University, Beijing]

• 如何對待語言差異的問題？ [How to Treat Language Variation?]. 清華大學外語系，October 22, 2001 [Department of Foreign Languages, Tsinghua University, Beijing]

• 語言學經濟原則的一些問題 [On Economy Principles in Language]. 北京語言文化大學外國語學院，October 24, 2001 [Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing]

• 語言差異的參數理論 [Parametric Theory of Language Variation]. 中國社會科學院語言研究所，October 25, 2001 [Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing]
  

• 詞序差異和移位的一些問題 [On Word Order Variation and Movement]. 廣東外語外貿大學，December 19, 2001 [Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou]

2002

• 新聞翻譯和語言 [News Translation and Language]. 透視新聞翻譯講座及研討會 ，半島青年商會主辦，香港浸會大學，2002年3月17日 [Seminar on News Translation, Peninsula Junior Chamber, Hong Kong Baptist University, March 17, 2002]
  

• Variation in Grammar (I): Word Order. School of International Education, Shanghai International Studies University, April 4, 2002 .
  

• Variation in Grammar (II): Structure. School of International Education, Shanghai International Studies University, April 5, 2002.

2003

• Ergativization of Chinese passives. Institute of Cognitive Science and Department of Linguistics, Hunan University, October 14, 2003.

2004

• A theory of licensing in English syntax and its applications. 2004 KASELL Summer Conference, The Korean Association for the Study of English Language and Linguistics, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, June 29, 2004. [as a plenary speaker]
  

• 淺論漢語方言的句法差異 [On syntactic variation of Chinese dialects]。湖南大學認知科學研究所 [Institute of Cognitive Science, Hunan University], October 23, 2004.
  

• A parametric approach to the typology of subtopics in Chinese dialects. Wednesday Colloquium, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, Chinese University of Hong Kong, November 10, 2004.

2005

• 從「最簡方案」看語法研究的一些問題 [Some notes on the study of grammar from a minimalist approach]. 北京大學漢語語言學研究中心, Peking University, April 4, 2005.
  

• 從「最簡方案」看漢語方言的語法差異 [Some notes on the parametric variation of Chinese dialects from a minimalist approach], 北京大學漢語語言學研究中心, Peking University, April 6, 2005.
  

• Chinese small clauses revisited. Graduate Institute of Linguistics and Cultural Studies, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, April 15, 2005.

2006

• Passivization vs. topicalization in Chinese. Wednesday Colloquium, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 10, 2006.
  
  
• 「最簡方案」和漢語語法的特點 [The Minimalist Program and properties of Chinese grammar], 華南師範大學外國語言文化學院 School of Foreign Studies, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, December 1, 2006.
  

• 形成漢語話題句的問題 [The formation of Chinese topic sentences], 廣東外語外貿大學 外國語言學及應用語言學研究中心 National Key Research Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, December 4, 2006.

2007

• 粵語虛詞的局部性、多重性和套置特點 [Locality, multiplicity, and nesting properties of function words in the Cantonese discontinuous construction], Linguistics Seminar, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, Chinese University of Hong Kong, March 7, 2007.

2008

• Notes on N-Ellipsis and V-Ellipsis in Chinese. Polylinguist Salon, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, May 17, 2008.
  

• 也談移位、移情、類推揉合 [Movement, emotional movement, and analogical blending revisited], 北京航天航空大學 外國語學院 School of Foreign Languages, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, October 28, 2008.
  

• 空語類的指稱能力 [Referentiality of empty categories], 北京航天航空大學 外國語學院 School of Foreign Languages, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, October 29, 2008.
  

• 輕動詞和漢語的句法結構 [Light verbs and syntactic structures in Chinese], 北京航天航空大學 外國語學院 School of Foreign Languages, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, October 30, 2008.
  

• 「南非北是」：名物化的參數差異 ['The yes of north and the no of south': parametric variation of nominalization]. 北京語言大學 外國語學院 College of Foreign Languages, Beijing Language and Culture University, October 30, 2008.
  

• 「潮語」的定位 [On the position of trendy expressions in Hong Kong Cantonese]. 香港語言學學會香港「潮語」講壇 [LSHK Forum on Ciu4jyu5]. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, November 22, 2008.
  

• 光桿與非光桿空語類 [Bare and no-so-bare empty categories]. 上海外國語大學語言研究院 Institute of Linguistics Studies, Shanghai International Studies University, November 26, 2008.
  

• 「合併」還是「揉合」？ ['Merge' or 'blending'?]. 上海外國語大學語言研究院 Institute of Linguistics Studies, Shanghai International Studies University, November 26, 2008.

2009

• Notes on Chinese Verb Ellipsis. The Seoul 2009 International Conference on Linguistic Interfaces (SICOLI-2009), Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, June 24-26, 2009. [as a plenary speaker]
  

• 到底幹嗎怎麼問為甚麼 [On hows and whys in Mandarin and Cantonese] 北京語言大學理論語言學研究中心 Center for Linguistic Theory, Beijing Language and Culture University, July 8, 2009.
  

• 普通話和粵語的蒙受句──兼論漢語句法學的製圖理論 [A Cartographic Approach to the Syntax of the Affective Constructions in Mandarin and Cantonese]. 語言學講座Linguistics Seminar, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, Chinese University of Hong Kong, October 8, 2009
  
  
• 生成語法學與漢語語法的研究 [Generative grammar and the study of Chinese grammar]. 北京師範大學文學院，語言學講座 [Linguistics Seminar, School of Chinese Language and Literature, Beijing Normal University], November 18, 2009
  

• 漢語被動句的句法分析 [A syntactic analysis of Chinese passives]. 北京師範大學文學院，語言學講座 [Linguistics Seminar, School of Chinese Language and Literature, Beijing Normal University], November 19, 2009
  

• 漢語方言語法研究的重要性 [The significance of the study of Chinese dialectal grammar]. 北京師範大學文學院，語言學講座 [Linguistics Seminar, School of Chinese Language and Literature, Beijing Normal University], November 20, 2009

2011

• Some Notes on the Left Periphery in Chinese. Seminar Series, Department of Linguistics, School of Humanities, The University of Hong Kong, March 8, 2011.
  

• 從「撐粵語」看香港的中文 ["Supporting Cantonese" and Chinese in Hong Kong], 香港中文大學崇基學院「提高語文能力計劃語文講座」[Language Seminar, Language Enhancement Programme, Chung Chi College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong], March 16, 2011

• 再談「他的老師當得好」的形成 [The formation of Ta-de laoshi dang-de hao: revisited], Seminar, National Key Research Centre for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, May 5, 2011

• 漢語形式句法學的理論基礎 [Some theoretical background of Chinese formal syntax] (Lecture 1), 主謂結構的句法結構 [Syntactic structure of predication] (Lecture 2], 句子的句法分析 [Syntactic analysis of sentences] (Lecture 3), and 句法學研究的苦與樂 [The bitter and sweet of doing research on syntax] (Lecture 4), 生成語言學系列講座 [Lecture series of Generative Grammar], School of Chinese Language and Literature, Beijing Normal University, September 21-23, 2011.

• 方言語法研究的第一步 [The first step towards the study of dialectal grammar] 暨南大學漢語方言研究中心 Jinan University, Guangzhou, November 3, 2011.