Hsiu-chuan Liao

 

Chicago-Lake Michigan, Illinois, USA (August 24, 2017)

 

廖 秀 娟

美國夏威夷大學語言學博士
 

Hsiu-chuan Liao
Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

 
國立清華大學 語言學研究所
30013 新竹市光復路二段101號

National Tsing Hua University

Graduate Institute of Linguistics

101 Kuangfu Road, Section 2

Hsinchu 30013

TAIWAN

 

Tel: +886-3-571-5131 ext. 34445 (with an English answering machine) (***No calls between 11:30noon and 2:00PM please!)
Fax: +886-3-572-5994 (general office fax, not private)

 
E-mails: hcliao@faculty.hss.nthu.edu.tw
nthuworldlgs@gmail.com

 

心道禪師法語分享:

-- 世界因差異而美麗、因相通而和諧。

-- 從惡裡面學習善,從善裡面學習到超越善跟惡,佛法就是讓你自由的方法。

 

All the world's a stage,

And all the men and women merely players:

They have their exits and their entrances;

And one man in his time plays many parts,

His acts being seven ages.

--William Shakespeare As You Like It

 

 

CONTENTS

  1. Courses
  2. Research Interests
  3. Dissertation
  4. Education
  5. Honors, Awards, and Fellowships
  6. Experience
  7. Publications
  8. Conference Presentations
  9. Invited Presentations
  10. Research Projects
  11. Thesis/Dissertation Committee
  12. Professional Service
  13. Links

Courses

GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS, NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY

Fall 2020 [updated on July 18, 2020]

Fall 2006-Spring 2020

   

 


DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS, DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY—MANILA

September 2004-August 2006


 
left: HC and her students at De La Salle University, Manila, the Philippines
right: sunset by Manila Bay 
 
DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS, UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I AT MĀNOA

 

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Research Interests

 

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Dissertation

                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                       

                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                       

                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                       

                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                       

                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                       

   Professor Lawrence A. Reid (Chair): Austronesian Linguistics (Formosan and Philippine Languages); Syntax

   Professor Robert A. Blust: Austronesian Linguistics and Culture (Formosan Languages and Languages of Borneo); Historical Linguistics

   Professor Byron W. Bender: Morphology; Austronesian Linguistics (Micronesian Languages)

   Professor Alexander Vovin : Historical-Comparative Linguistics; Descriptive Linguistics (Japanese, Korean, Ainu, and Manchu-Tungusic Languages)

   Professor P. Bion Griffin : Ethnoarchaeology (Philippine Negritos)

 

Hsiuchuan-committee2_03122004Hsiuchuan defense_03122004
left: HC and her dissertation committee members (left to right: Byron, Laurie, Bion, HC, Bob, and Sasha)

right: HC being congratulated with leis after passing her dissertation defense (March 12, 2004)

 

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Education


Linguistic Institutes, Linguistic Society of America

Hsiuchuan_LAR_graduation_05162004Hsiuchuan_Bob_Laurie_05162004
left: HC and her advisor Laurie in doctoral gowns, hoods, and caps (Commencement Exercises: May 16, 2004)
right: HC after attending the 93rd Annual Commencement Exercises, UHM (background: Bob and Laurie)
 
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Honors, Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

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Experience

Teaching

Fall 2012-                       Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University.

Fall 2006Spring 2012  Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University.

2004–2006                     Visiting Professor, Department of English and Applied Linguistics, De La Salle University-Manila.

Fall 2003                        Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa: “Ling 422: Introduction to Grammatical Analysis (core course in syntax for graduate students in the Department of Linguistics)”.

Fall 2002                       Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa: “Ling 640X (2): The Syntax of Ergative Languages (upper-division graduate course in syntactic typology)”.

Editing

2017.   Editor, Issues in Austronesian historical linguistics JSEALS Special Publication No. 1.  Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. [E-ISSN: 1836-6821] [URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52405]

2002 2005    (with Carl Rubino) Editor, Current issues in Philippine linguistics and anthropology: Parangal kay Lawrence A. Reid.  Manila: Linguistic Society of the Philippines and SIL Philippines. [ISBN #: 971-780-022-7]

2003              (with Albert J. Schütz) Editor, Digests of selected papers presented at AFLA X (also published as Working Papers in Linguistics 34 (2), Available on-line at http://www.ling.hawaii.edu.afla/digests/index.html).

2003              Editor, Say it in Fijian: An entertaining introduction to the standard language of Fiji (Albert J. Schütz, Suva: Textbook Wholesalers Ltd., New edition, 2003).

2001–2002    Student Editor, Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.  Working Papers in Linguistics (Vol. 31–Vol. 33).  Supervisor: Professor Albert J. Schütz.

1993–1995    

Editor, Foreign Languages Editorial Department, San-Min Book Company, Taipei, Taiwan.

Coordinator, Dictionary Project: The New Century English-Chinese Dictionary (published in 1995, Taipei: San-Min Book Company).  

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Publications

Articles in Refereed Journals


Reviews

 

Book Chapters


Edited Books


Dissertation (unpublished)

Working Paper

 

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Conference Presentations

Upcoming Conference Presentations

Past Conference Presentations


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Invited Presentations

Upcoming Talks

Past Talks

 
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Research Projects

NSC-funded Monograph-Writing Project (國科會學術性專書寫作計畫)

 

MOST-Funded/NSC-funded Research Projects (科技部/國科會專題研究計畫)

MOE-Sponsored Research Project (育部補助專題研究計畫)

MOST-Funded/NSC-funded Book Projects for Humanities and Social Sciences Research (科技部/國科會補助人文社會科學研究圖書計畫)

 

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Thesis/Dissertation Committee

                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                          
                                            

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor

 

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Professional Service

Board of Editorial Consultants

2011-2021     Associate Editor (first term: 2011-2016; second term: 2017-2021), Oceanic Linguistics.

2016-              Associate Editor, Journal of Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (JSEALS).

2015-               board member, Board of Editorial Consultants, the Philippine Journal of Linguistics (PJL) [the official journal of the Linguistic Society of the Philippines (LSP)].

2008-2011       board member, Board of Editorial Consultants, the Philippine Journal of Linguistics (PJL) [the official journal of the Linguistic Society of the Philippines (LSP)].

 

Professional Organization Committee

2013-2015          Chair, Executive Committee, Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS) [東南亞語言學會會長]

 

Conference Organizing

2019                 Member, Program Committee, the 26th Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 26), University of Western Ontario, Canada, May 24-26, 2019.

2017-2018         Member, Organizing Committee, the 28th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS 28) [第二十八屆東南亞語言學會], Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages (文藻外語大學), Kaohsiung, May 17-19, 2018.

2012-2015         Member, Organizing Committee, the 13th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (13-ICAL), held at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, July 18-23, 2015.

2005-2006         Chair, Program Committee, the Tenth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (10-ICAL), held at Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, the Philippines, January 17-20, 2006.

2002-2003         Member, Organizing Committee, the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA X), held at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, March 28-30, 2003.

1999                  Member, Organizing Committee, the Third College-wide Conference for Graduate Students in Languages, Linguistics, and Literature (the 3rd Annual LLL Conference), University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, March 13, 1999.

 

Teaching

2008                  Institute Professor, First Philippine Linguistic Institute, Manila, Philippines.
--hosted by University of the Philippines, Linguistic Society of the Philippines, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, and SIL International (Philippines).
--funded by NCCA National Council for Culture and Arts.

Course title: “Comparative-Historical Linguistics”.

Venue: University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Metro Manila, the Philippines.

Time: March 31-April 12, 2008.

Editing

2003                 Editor, Digests of selected papers presented at AFLA X (also published as Working Papers in Linguistics 34(2)), 2003.

2001-2002        Editor, Working Papers Editorial Committee, Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

Commentating

2017                Commentator, “Adjectival Concepts and Lexically Semantic Classification in Yami” (presented by Ann Hui-Huan Chang), Workshop on “Issues on the Morphosyntax of Chinese and Austronesian Languages from a Typological Perspective”, Academia Sinica, Feb 23, 2017.

2016                Commentator, “Aspectual Split Ergativity in Puyuma: Synchrony and Diachrony” (presented by Stacy Fang-Ching Teng), The 11th International Symposium on Taiwanese Languages and Teaching (IsTLT 2016) (2016第十一屆台灣語言及其教學國際學術研討會), Academia Sinica, July 12-13, 2016.

2016                Commentator, “Yami Phonemic System Revisited” (presented by Wen-Huei Chang), Workshop: Issues on Phonology in Austronesian Languages of Taiwan, Academic Sinica, March 26, 2016.

2010                Commentator, 2010 Conference on Taiwan Formosan Languages and Teaching, National Taitung University, October 15-16, 2010.

2007                 Commentator, 2007全國語言學論文研討會 (National Conference on Linguistics [2007 NCL]),  National Cheng Kung University (國立成功大學), Tainan, Taiwan, June 2-3, 2007.

Referee

2020                 Referee, Diachronica (1)

2020                 Referee, Journal of Historical Linguistics (1)

2020                 Grant Proposal Reviewer, Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), the Executive Yuan, Taiwan (科技部). (1)

2019                 Grant Proposal Reviewer, Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), the Executive Yuan, Taiwan (科技部). (2)

2019                 Grant Proposal Reviewer, Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (The Asia Pacific Region). (1)

2019                 Referee, Oceanic Linguistics. (2)

2018                 Referee, Oceanic Linguistics. (1)

2018                 Grant Proposal Reviewer, The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP), The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK. (1)

2018                 Grant Proposal Reviewer, Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), the Executive Yuan, Taiwan (科技部). (1)

2017-2018         Grant Proposal Reviewer, Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship program, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), New York, USA. (13)

2017                  Referee, Oceanic Linguistics. (3)

2017                  Referee, Philippine Journal of Linguistics (PJL). (1)

2017                  Referee, Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. (2)

2017                  Grant Proposal Reviewer, The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP), The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK. (1)

2017                 Grant Proposal Reviewer, Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), the Executive Yuan, Taiwan (科技部). (1)

2016-2017         Grant Proposal Reviewer, Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship program, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), New York, USA. (12)

2016                 Referee, Philippine Journal of Linguistics (PJL). (1)

2016                  Grant Proposal Reviewer, Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), the Executive Yuan, Taiwan (科技部). (2)

2015-2016         Grant Proposal Reviewer, Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship program, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), New York, USA. (11)

2015                  Referee, Oceanic Linguistics.

2014                  Referee, Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society.

2014                  Referee, Social Science Diliman.

2014                  Referee, Oceanic Linguistics.

2014                  Grant Proposal Reviewer, Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), the Executive Yuan, Taiwan (科技部). (4 + 1)

2014                  Abstract Reviewer, the 14th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-14)

2013                  Abstract and Dissertation Reviewer, 2013 LST (Linguistic Society of Taiwan) Best Thesis/Dissertation Award (2013臺灣語言學學會最佳碩博士論文獎)

2013                  Referee, Pacific Linguistics (PL).  Canberra: Australian National University. (2)

2013                  Referee, Oceanic Linguistics

2013                  Grant Proposal Reviewer, National Science Council, the Executive Yuan, Taiwan (行政院國家科學委員).

2012                  Referee, Oceanic Linguistics

2012                  Grant Proposal Reviewer, National Science Council, the Executive Yuan, Taiwan (行政院國家科學委員).

2011-2012         Reviewer, 2012 Research Award for Junior Research Investigators (中央研究院年輕學者研究著作獎)

2011                  Referee, Oceanic Linguistics

2011                  Referee, Language and Linguistics.

2011                  Reviewer, Academia Sinica Postdoctoral Fellowships (中央研究院博士後研究學者).

2011                  Referee, 過去、現在與未來:國家發展脈絡下太魯閣族社會的轉變》

2011                  Referee (審查委員), 教育部國際文教處「100年國際事務青年人才培訓計畫」華語文組

2011                  Grant Proposal Reviewer, National Science Council, the Executive Yuan, Taiwan (行政院國家科學委員).

2010                  Referee, Philippine Journal of Linguistics (PJL).

2010                  Reviewer, Academia Sinica Postdoctoral Fellowships (中央研究院博士後研究學者).

2010                  Referee, Publication of The National Museum of Prehistory (Taiwan) (台灣史前文化博物館).

2010                  Referee, Bulletin of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Tayei University (大葉大學人文暨社會科學期刊)

2010                  Abstract Reviewer, The 4th Conference on Language, Discourse and Cognition (CLDC 2010) (屆語言、言談與認知研討會), National Taiwan University.

2010                  Referee, Oceanic Linguistics

2010                  Referee, Linguistics.

2010                  Referee, Language and Linguistics.

2010                  Referee, Brill’s monograph series on Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture, Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands.

2009                  Grant Proposal Reviewer, The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP), The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK.

2009                  Referee, Taiwan Journal of Linguistics (TJL).

2009                  Referee, Pacific Linguistics (PL) monograph series.  Canberra: Australian National University.

2009                  Referee, Oceanic Linguistics

2009                  Referee, Philippine Journal of Linguistics (PJL).

2009                  Grant Proposal Reviewer, National Science Council, the Executive Yuan, Taiwan (行政院國家科學委員).

2008                  Referee, Pacific Linguistics (PL).  Canberra: Australian National University.

2008                  Referee, Taiwan Journal of Linguistics (TJL).

2008                  Referee, Guest Issue of Morphology.

2008                  Grant Proposal Reviewer, Academia Sinica Fellowships for Doctoral Candidates in the Humanities and Social Sciences (中央研究院人文社會科學博士候選人培育計畫).

2008                  Referee, Tamkang Studies of Foreign Languages and Literature (淡江外語論叢).

2008                  Grant Proposal Reviewer, National Science Council, the Executive Yuan, Taiwan (行政院國家科學委員).

2007                  Abstract and Thesis Reviewer, 2007 LST (Linguistic Society of Taiwan) Best Thesis/Dissertation Award (2007臺灣語言學學會最佳碩博士論文獎).

2007                  Referee, Oceanic Linguistics

2007                  Grant Proposal Reviewer, National Science Foundation (NSF), USA (美國國家科學基金會).

2007                  Abstract Reviewer, The First Conference on Language, Discourse and Cognition(CLDC─1)(第一屆語言、言談與認知研討會), National Taiwan University.

2005-2006         Referee, Special Issue of Language and Linguistics.

2005                  Abstract Reviewer, the Tenth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (10-ICAL).

2004                  Referee, Oceanic Linguistics

2002                  Abstract Reviewer, the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistic Association (AFLA X). 

2002                  Referee, Oceanic Linguistics

1999                  Paper Reviewer, Proceedings for the Third College-wide Conference for Graduate Students in Languages, Linguistics, and Literature (the 3rd Annual LLL Conference), University of Hawaii at Mānoa.

 

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Links

The Association for Linguistic Typology
Linguistic Society of America
The Linguist List
Austronesian Languages Mailing List
Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica
Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (USA)

Oceanic Linguistics

Language Documentation & Conservation 

Documenting and Revitalizing Austronesian Languages (ed. by D. Victoria Rau and Margaret Florey)

The Journal of the Polynesian Society 

Lawrence A. Reid
Talking Dictionary of Kinina-ang Bontok
Early Tasaday Tapes

Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD) (Compiler: Robert A. Blust) 

Marshallese-English On-Line Dictionary (MOD)

Pohnpeian-English Dictionary



The Philippine National Proverb (Compiler: Carl Rubino)

A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan (Compiler: John U. Wolff) 
Tagalog (Interactive Language and Filipino Culture Resources)
Summer Institute of Linguistics, Philippines (SIL Philippines)

WordCorr (a tool for comparative-historical linguists) 

Toolbox

Praat: doing phonetics by computer

Linguistics computing resources

The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Projects

The International Phonetic Association (IPA)

Unicode-encoded IPA fonts

IPA fonts [CharisSILCompact4.106; DoulosSILCompact4.106]

Ethnologue
Languages and Linguistics: Endangered Languages
Bibliography on Language Endangerment (Compiler: Tasaku Tsunoda)

Bibliographie Linguistique/Linguistic Bibliography

Bibliography of Research on Agreement (by Surrey Morphology Group: Carole Tiberius, Greville G. Corbett, and Julia Barron)
The Surrey Database of Agreement
An Annotated Bibliography of Contemporary Research on Tense, Aspect, Aktionsart, and Related Areas (by Robert I. Binnick)
An Annotated Bibliography on Suppletion (by Surrey Morphology Group: Marina Chumakina)
An Annotated Bibliography on Syncretism (by Surrey Morphology Group: Matthew Baerman)


Why Major in Linguistics? (by Monica Macaulay and Kristen Syrett)

Typology Problems (for William Crofts Typology and Universals, 2nd edition)
The Universals Archive (Archivists: Elena Filimonova and Frans Plank)
Leipzig Glossing Rules (by Bernard Comrie, Martin Haspelmath, and Balthasar Bickel)

Haspelmath, Martin, and Uri Tadmor, eds.  2009b.  World Loanword Database.  Munich: Max Planck Digital Library.
 

Typological Tools for Field Linguistics (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) 

The World Atlas of Language Structures Online (published by the Max Planck Digital Library

Linguistic Fieldwork Preparation: A Guide for Field Linguists

Endangered Languages (The Endangered Languages Programme (ELP) of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)

 

 


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Last updated: July 18, 2020