The Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics (WICL) -- the first event held in North America that was devoted solely to Cantonese linguistics -- took place on 16-17 March 2012, at The Ohio State University. Keynote speakers were: Professor Anne Oi-kan Yue 余靄芹 (University of Washington), Professor Benjamin Ka Yin T'sou 鄒嘉彥, (The Hong Kong Institute of Education; Professor Emeritus, City University of Hong Kong), and Professor Alan C. L. Yu 余梓麟 (University of Chicago). The event was attended by some eighty people altogether, coming from three continents and five countries/regions. The WICL Program is available, along with information on accommodations, transportation, etc., at the WICL website. The program is also available as part of the photo collection for WICL at OSU's Media Manager website. WICL organizers plan to publish a set of proceedings.

Welcome to my home page, with information on my current year's course offerings as well as links to my online course syllabi and other pages pertaining to my teaching and research. Immediately below are annotated links to websites that I have served as webmaster over the years. Another OSU website to note is the Institute for Chinese Studies (ICS). As of 1 December 2010, I am serving as the new director of the Institute for Chinese Studies, one of three institutes that form The Ohio State University's East Asian Studies Center (EASC), under the directorship of Professor Patricia Sieber (DEALL). (The other two EASC institutes are the Institute for Japanese Studies and the Institute for Korean Studies.) The East Asian Studies Center is, in turn, under of the auspices of the University's Office of International Affairs and College of Arts and Sciences.

Online since 24 April 1996 (and the current url as of 12 May 2004), this website contains my annotated links to online resources on Chinese studies (culture, language, linguistics, etc.). It was the host site for NACCL and NACCL-20 until NACCL has its own website (as of 18 April 2012), as shown below. It was also the host site for CHINOPERL until it also has its own website (as of 1 May 2012), as shown below.

A website (originally placed within ChinaLinks.osu.edu) for dissemination of information concerning the NACCL conference was added on 23 January 2010. The NACCL website also houses NACCL Proceedings Online, which serves as an online depository for e-publications of NACCL Proceedings beginning with NACCL-20 in 2008. (See below for the first set of NACCL Proceedings available online at the NACCL-20 conference website.)

The 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20) - 25-27 April 2008
ChinaLinks.osu.edu/NACCL-20/

The North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL) returned to Columbus, Ohio, for its 20th anniversary. NACCL-20 was held on 25-27 April 2008 at The Ohio State University, the birthplace of NACCL! The two-volume set of Proceedings of the 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20) is publicly accessible for viewing and downloading as full-text PDF files. (Note: The two-volume set of NACCL-20 Proceedings is now placed in the new, dedicated naccl.osu.edu website.)

The Graduate Association of Chinese Linguistics (GACL) is a registered student organization at The Ohio State University, with the goal of promoting the linguistic study of the Chinese language. (I serve as the faculty advisor to this formally-registered, OSU student organization, and our new faculty member in Chinese linguistics, Zhiguo Xie, serves as co-advisor.) Research interests cover the full range of fields within Chinese linguistics — its norm and dialect variants, spoken and written forms, synchronic and diachronic aspects, and theoretical as well as applied linguistics and their pedagogical applications. In addition to meetings and informal get-togethers, it also sponsors talks and guest lectures, and other exciting linguistics activities, such as a new e-working papers in Chinese linguistics.

Past major activities include assisting with the 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20) in spring 2008, hosting lectures, and co-sponsoring the ICS Graduate Forum: New Horizons in Chinese Linguistics Research (Friday, 20 May 2011 -- see flyer above), an inaugural event organized by the Institute for Chinese Studies that ushered in the ICS Graduate Forum series. Recent events include the co-organization of the Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics (WICL), which took place on 16-17 March 2012.

The Conference on Chinese Oral and Performing Literature (CHINOPERL) is a scholarly organization founded in 1969 by Yuen Ren Chao (趙元任, 1892-1982) — who gave the organization its acronym — as well as Harold Shadick (1915-1992), Cyril Birch (1925- ), and a few other established scholars. Membership consists of scholars in the humanities and the social sciences who recognize the significance of oral performance to Chinese literature (popular story-telling, opera, ceremonial chanting, folksong, etc.). Chinoperl is devoted to the research, analysis and interpretation of oral and performing traditions, broadly defined, and their relationship to China's culture and society.

The CHINOPERL website was originally created and unveiled on 9 February 2010 under the ChinaLinks.osu.edu website.

Established in 1962, the Chinese Language Teachers Association, Inc. (CLTA) is a professional organization devoted to the study of Chinese language, culture, and pedagogy. Online since 20 January 1998, the CLTA website was generously hosted and supported for a decade — from December 1997 to July 2007 — by our College of Humanities at Ohio State. With migration (07.07.07) to a new server, the website is now at: <clta-us.org>.

My Department at The Ohio State University launched its homepage on 1 July 1996 (with new url as of 28 May 2004). Information on graduate and undergraduate programs (including Graduate Admissions Information), courses, faculty, staff and graduate students, etc., is available online. Also visit us on Facebook (as of April 2010).

The Asian American Studies Program website (with the current url as of Autumn 2005) is currently maintained by Ohio State's College of Arts and Sciences. The earlier <AsianAm.osu.edu> website was launched on 03.17.04 with Marjorie Chan and Judy Wu as the webmasters. Then hosted by the College of Humanities, the Asian American Studies Program Home Page started life as the university's "Virtual Center for Asian American Studies," prior to the establishment of an Asian American Studies Program at Ohio State.

Teaching and Computer Technology:
Since the mid-1990's, computer technology and Chinese computing have been integral parts of students' coursework in the courses that I teach. Both linguistic and culture courses are taught in multimedia classrooms, which have audiovisual equipment and a computer with internet connection. Recently-taught courses that heavily integrate computer technology into course materials and assignments include my offering of Chinese 231: Traditional Chinese Culture, Chinese 580: The Chinese Language: Description and Analysis, Chinese 674: Chinese Opera, Chinese 680: Introduction to Chinese Linguistics, Chinese 782: Chinese Phonology, Chinese 782: Modern Chinese Dialects, and Chinese 784: Chinese Syntax, as well as the one-time offering of Chinese 694: Group Studies — Chinese Computing (Sp '00) and Chinese 889: Seminar on Databases and Corpora for Chinese Linguistic Research (Wi '01), Also see my Instructions for Concordancing East Asian E-Texts using Concordance, my 2002 JCLTA article, "Concordancers and concordances: Tools for Chinese language teaching and research" (PDF, 1.03 MB), as well as my 2004 JCLTA review, "Google Search Engine: UTF-8 and Searches in Chinese."

• My Courses and Archived Course Syllabi
• For course listings, see OSU's Master Schedule of Classes & Course Bulletin.
• For grad/undergrad students: Scholarships and Grant Opportunities.
• Grade Assignment: Course Marks
• Prohibited Conduct — Academic Misconduct:   See OSU's Code of Student Conduct   [Faculty Rule 3335-23]
• Ph.D. Requirements for a Minor in Chinese Linguistics in the FSLED Program
  - Beginning in Autumn 2012: Ph.D. Requirements for a Minor in Chinese Linguistics (semester system)

Research Projects:
Linguistic research on humor (see Chinese 889 Seminar on Humor, Gender & Other Topics in Discourse Analysis (Wi '07), Chinese dialectology; prosody-discourse interaction (see Chinese 889 Seminar on Prosody and Discourse (Wi '04)); language and gender (see Chinese 889 Seminar on Language and Gender (Au '97)); pragmatics of intonation (see Chinese 889 Seminar on Intonation and Sentence-Final Particles (Au '99)); Pan-Mandarin ToBI System; interdisciplinary seed grant on Spoken Language Understanding and Generation (SLUG) (1999); corpus-based linguistic research (see Chinese 889 Seminar on Databases and Corpora for Chinese Linguistic Research (Wi '01)); Chinese language & computer technology (see, for example, my presentation, Chinese Computing and Concordancing, part of OSU College of Humanites' Spring 2003 poster session on Research Tools).

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