Giorgio Arcodia (马振国)
University of Milan, Italy
Progressive and Continuous Aspect Marking in Sinitic: Insights from Yue Dialects
Giorgio Francesco Arcodia (马振国) is based at the University of Milan. His research focuses on the typology and grammar of Sinitic languages, including aspectual systems, cross-dialectal comparison, and grammaticalization.
Wen Cao (曹文)
Beijing Language and Culture University
Conditions or Constraints on Using the Five-tone Scale for Intonation Description
Wen Cao is Dean of the School of Language Science and Resources / Institute of Language Science at Beijing Language and Culture University, and a Research Professor and doctoral supervisor. He is Vice Chair of the Phonetics Division of the Chinese Linguistics Society. His research interests include phonetics, language resources, and Chinese as a second language teaching. He has authored several monographs on phonetics and tonal phonology.
Rui Guo (郭锐)
Peking University
The Concept of "Expectation" in Semantic Analysis
Rui Guo is Professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Peking University. He currently serves as Director of the Research Centre for Chinese Linguistics at Peking University and Deputy Editor of Yuyanxue Luncong (Papers in Linguistics). His primary research areas are Modern Chinese grammar and semantics.
Fang Hu (胡方)
Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
On the Labiodental Articulation in Vowel Production
Fang Hu is a Research Professor at the Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and a Professor and doctoral supervisor at the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His major research field is phonetics and Chinese linguistics. He advocates the use of experimental scientific methods in humanities research. His representative works include The Vowel: A General Introduction with reference to Chinese data (FLTRP, 2020) and Topics in Chinese Phonetics (Shanghai Educational Publishing House, 2021).
Xuhui Hu (胡旭辉)
Peking University
Yes/No Questions Across Chinese Varieties and English
Xuhui Hu is currently a tenured Associate Professor and Head of the Institute of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the School of Foreign Languages, Peking University. His research interests include syntax, morphology, and pragmatics. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Linguistic Research, Associate Editor of Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, and a member of the editorial board of Journal of East Asian Linguistics.
Yuan Jia (贾媛)
Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
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Peppina Lee (李宝伦)
Hong Kong Metropolitan University
Exploring Classifier Reduplication: [one+CL+one+CL] and [one+CL+CL] in Mandarin Chinese and Shantou Southern Min
Peppina Lee is Professor and Associate Dean in the School of Education and Languages at Hong Kong Metropolitan University, and Director of the Research Institute for Bilingual Learning and Teaching (RIBiLT). She is the Executive Secretary of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics. She has authored or co-edited three books, including Focus Manifestation in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese: A Comparative Perspective (Routledge, 2019). Her research interests cover semantics, the syntax-semantics interface, Chinese and Cantonese linguistics, and comparative dialectal grammar.
Thomas Lee (李行德)
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Linguistic Measures that Distinguish AI Writing and Human Writing: A Comparative Study of English and Chinese
Thomas Lee received his BA in English Literature from Swarthmore College and his Ph.D. in Linguistics from UCLA. His research interests lie in language and cognition, with particular reference to language learnability and first language acquisition of Cantonese and Mandarin, drawing on linguistics, psychology and philosophy. He is currently Director of the Office of University General Education and Emeritus Professor of the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Xuping Li (李旭平)
Zhejiang University
Chinese Relational Nouns as Definite Singulars?
Huayong Lin (林华勇)
Sun Yat-sen University
Estimative Sentence-final Particles in Cantonese: Co-occurrence and Evolution
Huayong Lin is Professor and doctoral supervisor in the Department of Chinese Language at Sun Yat-sen University. His research interests focus on dialectology and grammar, including grammatical description, grammaticalization, and language contact. He is Chief Expert of a major national social science project and editor-in-chief of the journal Chinese Linguistics. He received the Lu Shuxiang Linguistics Award (Second Prize, 2018) and was selected as a National Young Talent (2022).
Danqing Liu (刘丹青)
Shenzhen University
A Cross-dialectal Comparative Study on Mighty Categories of Modality
Danqing Liu is Distinguished Professor at the College of Humanities, Shenzhen University. He is Subject Editor of Chinese Languages for the Encyclopedia of China (3rd edition) and editor-in-chief of the international journal Asian Languages and Linguistics. He is former Director of the Institute of Linguistics, CASS, former editor-in-chief of Zhongguo Yuwen (Studies of the Chinese Language), and former President of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics.
Haihua Pan (潘海华)
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Monotonicity or Negation: The Nature of Licensing in "dou"/"ye" NPI Sentences
Haihua Pan is Chair Professor and doctoral supervisor in the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Chief Expert of a major national social science project. He obtained his PhD in linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin. He served as Vice President (2023-2024) and President (2024-2025) of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, and as Head of Department at CUHK (2017-2023). His research areas include syntactic theory, formal semantics, and computational linguistics.
Ying Ren (任鹰)
Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Japan
Features of Chinese Syntactic Structure: Evidence from Constructions that Deviate from "Case Assignment" Rules
Ying Ren obtained her PhD from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (1999). She is currently Professor and doctoral supervisor in the Department of Chinese at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Japan, serving as editor-in-chief of Modern Chinese Research (Japan) and a member of the editorial board of Chinese Grammatical Research (Japan). Her research focuses on Chinese grammar, textology, and Chinese as a foreign language.
Li Shen (沈力)
Doshisha University, Japan
Toward a Structure-Based Definition of the Morpheme: Evidence from Chinese Loanwords and Lianmian Words
Li Shen completed his doctoral program at Kyoto University, Japan in 1996 and received his PhD in linguistics from Kyoto University the following year. He joined Doshisha University in 1996 as assistant professor and is currently Professor of Linguistics in the Faculty of Culture and Information Science at Doshisha University, doctoral supervisor, and concurrently Director of the Research Center for Language Ecosystem Science at Doshisha University.
Chenqing Song (宋晨清)
Binghamton University, State University of New York
Shifting Instrumentality in Language Learning: The Impact of Machine Translation and AI on Chinese Language Learner Motivation
Chenqing Song received her PhD in Chinese Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2008. She is currently a tenured Associate Professor at Binghamton University, SUNY, where she serves as Director of the Translation Studies and Teaching Program and Head of the Asian Languages Program. Her research interests include phonology (historical and synchronic), poetic prosody, tone acquisition, and the integration of culture in language teaching. She serves as Treasurer and council member of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics.
Sze-Wing Tang (邓思颖)
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Syntax of Coordinative Structures: A Relational Approach
Sze-Wing Tang received his BA and MPhil from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and his PhD from the University of California, Irvine. He is currently Professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and concurrently Director of the T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre. His research interests include Chinese syntax, theoretical analysis of Chinese dialects, and comparative grammar.
Zhengda Tang (唐正大)
Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
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Zhimin Wang (王治敏)
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
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Xiuhong Yan (严修鸿)
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
Types of Tone Merger in the Dialects of Lianzhou
Xiuhong Yan is Professor at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Chief Expert of a major national social science project, and a core expert of the Chinese Language Resources Protection Project under the Ministry of Education and National Language Commission. He serves as Vice President of the Guangdong Society for Chinese Linguistics. His expertise includes field investigation of Chinese dialects, dialectal etymology, and geolinguistics, with specialization in Hakka, Min, and Cantonese dialects.
Weidong Zhan (詹卫东)
Peking University
From "Generative Rules" to "Generating" Data: New Explorations in Language Knowledge Engineering
Weidong Zhan is Professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Peking University, Deputy Director of the Research Centre for Chinese Linguistics, and Deputy Director of the Institute of Computational Linguistics at Peking University. His research covers formal grammar of Modern Chinese, Chinese information processing, language knowledge engineering, and language standardization. Recent research interests focus on building construction grammar resources for Modern Chinese and evaluating machine language understanding for cognitive intelligence.
Yang Zhao (赵杨)
Peking University
A Dialectical and Developmental View of Culture Teaching in International Chinese Language Education
Yang Zhao is Chair Professor (Boya) and Dean of the School of International Chinese Language Education at Peking University, with a PhD from Cambridge University. His research interests include second language acquisition, generative grammar, sociolinguistics, and language education. He has published numerous monographs and close to a hundred research articles. He serves as President of the Board of Supervisors of the International Society for Chinese Language Teaching and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Chinese Language Teaching.
Jian Zhou (周荐)
Beijing Normal University Zhuhai Campus / Nankai University
Form-meaning Features of Lexical Blending and Functional Dimensions for Distinguishing Lexical Units
Jian Zhou is a Doctor of Literature and Professor at Beijing Normal University. He is also Distinguished Professor at Harbin Normal University, Vice President and Chair of the Academic Committee of the Chinese Dictionary Society, and editor-in-chief of Zhongguo Cishu Xuebao. He has led four national social science projects and currently serves as Chief Expert of a major national social science project (2021). He has published over 180 research articles and more than 20 monographs in the fields of Chinese lexicology, lexicography, and history of Chinese.
