Six graduate students who have been working with Professor Feng-hsi Liu have had their abstracts accepted at the 28th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-28), which is a major international conference on Chinese Linguistics. They are (back row, left to right) Min Chen, Professor Liu, Xiaowen Nie, Yi Wang, (front row) Yu Tian, Xin He and Jingjiing Xu.
They will travel to Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah in May to make presentations at the conference. Congratulations to all! This will be a great opportunity to showcase some of the research done in our department to our colleagues in other institutions. Here are the titles of their presentations:
Min Chen How Learners of Different Language Types Acquire Motion Events Differently:
A Study of Russian and Korean Learners of Chinese
Xin He Testing ba Sentences in Grounding Theories
Xiaowen Nie Entering the “BEI Era”: Emergence of the New Usage of BEI
Yu Tian Acquisition of Transitivity in L2 Chinese: The Case of the ba Construction
Yi Wang A Usage-based Account of the Emergence and Variation of the Constituent dehua
Jingjing Xu Numeral Classifiers and Grounding in L2 Chinese
For more information on NACCL go to: https://naccl.osu.edu/