Dr. Jo-wang Lin

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林若望 教授  | Professor Jo-wang Lin

交通大學外國語文學系  |  Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Chiao Tung University

研究興趣: 語意學、句法學、句法語意介面 | Research Interests: semantics, syntax, syntax-semantics interface

最高學歷 : 美國麻薩諸賽州大學語言學博士 | Ph.D in Linguistics. UMASS

 

 

 


Education(go top)

1992-1996    Ph. D in Linguistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

1998-1989    M.A. in linguistics, National Tsing Hua University

1982-1986    B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Tsing Hua University

Teaching Experiences(go top)

1996-1997        Associate Professor of Linguistics, Full Time, Institute of Linguistics, National Chung Cheng University

1997- 2003       Associate Professor of Linguistics, Full Time, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Chiao Tng University

2003 – present  Professor of Linguistics, Full Time, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Chiao Tung University

1999                 Associate Professor of Linguistics, Part Time, National Tsing Hua University

 

Honors & Awards(go top)

2004   Outstanding Research Award, National Science Council

2003    Young Scholar Award, Academia Sinica

2002-2003 Senior Research Grant, the Fulbright Foundation

2002    Superviser of an Outstanding NSC Project for College Students

2002    Great Teaching Award, National Chiao Tung University

2002    Outstanding Research Award, National Chiao Tung University

1997-1999    Type A Award for Research, National Science Council

1996    Young Scholar Award, International Association for Chinese Linguistics

1996    Award for Studies of Min Dialects, Administration of Education

1995    Dissertation Fellowship, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange

1994    University Fellowship, University Of Massachusetts at Amherst

1992-1994    Graduate Study Grant, the Fulbright Foundation

1989    Member of Phi Tao Phi Scholastic Honor Society

 

Publications ( Journal Articles and Book Chapters )(go top)

1.     Lin, Jo-wang (2007) “On the Semantics of Comparative Correlatives in Mandarin Chinese”, Journal of Semantics 24(2).

2.     Lin, Jo-wang (2007) “Predicate Restriction, Discontinuity Property and the Semantics of the Perfective Marker Guo in Mandarin Chinese”, Journal of East Asian Linguistics 16(3).

3.     Lin, Jo-wang (2007) “Event Decompostion and the Syntax and Semantics of Chinese Durative Phrases”, in Johannes Dölling & Tatjana Heyde-Zybatow (eds.) Event Structures in Linguistic Form and Interpretation Series: Language, Context and Cognition, Mouton de Gruyter.

4.     Lin, Jo-wang and Niina Zhang (2006) “The Syntax of the Non-referential TA ‘it’ in Mandarin Chinese”, Language and Linguistics 7.4: 991-1016.

5.     Lin, Jo-wang (2006) “Time in a language Without Tense: The case of Chinese”, Journal of Semantics 23: 1-53.

6.     Lin, Jo-wang (2004) “Choice Functions and Scope of Existential Polarity WH-phrases”, Linguistics and Philosophy 27: 451-491, Kluwer Academic Publishers, A&HCI.

7.     Lin, Jo-wang (2003) “On Restrictive and Non-restrictive Relative Clauses in Mandarin Chinese”, Tsinghua Journal of Chinese Studies, New Series, Volume 33 (1): 199-240.

8.     Lin, Jo-wang (2003) “Temporal Reference in Mandarin Chinese”, Journal of East Asian Linguistics 12: 259-311, Kluwer Academic Publishers, A&HCI.

9.     Lin, Jo-wang (2003) “Aspectual Selection and Negation in Chinese”, Linguistics 41(3): 425-459, SSCI, A&HCI.

10.  Lin, Jo-wang (2002) “Aspectual Selection and Temporal Reference of –Zhe in Mandarin Chinese”, Tsinghua Journal of Chinese Studies, New Series Volume 32 (2): 257-296.

11.  Lin, Jo-wang (2002) “Selectional Restrictions of Tenses and Temporal Reference of Chinese Bare Sentences”, Lingua 113:271-302, SSCI, A&HCI.

12.  Lin, Jo-wang (2002) “論 現代漢語的時制意義”, Language and Linguistics 3.1.

13.  Lin, Jo-wang (2000) “On the Temporal Meaning of the Verbal –le in Mandarin Chinese”, Language and Linguistics 1(2):109-133

14.  Lin, Jo-wang (1999) “Double Quantification and the Meaning of Shenme ‘what’ in Chinese Bare Conditionals”, Linguistics and Philosophy 22: 573-593, Kluwer Academic Publisher, A&HCI.

15.  Lin, Jo-wang (1999) “On Chinese Donkey Sentences”, in Yuen-mei Yin, I-li Yang and Hui-chen Chan (eds.) Chinese Language and Linguistics V: Interactions in Language, Academia Sinica, Taipei, pp. 461-502.

16.  Lin, Jo-wang (1999) “On the Meaning of Shenme ‘what’ in Chinese Bare Conditionals and Its Implications for Carlson’s Semantics of Bare Plurals”, Proceedings of 13th Pacific Conference on Language, Information and Computation, Chung-hsien Wu and (eds.), National Cheng Kung University, pp.

17.  Lin, Jo-Wang (1998) “Distributivity in Chinese and Its Implications,” Natural    Language Semantics 6: 201-243.

18.  Lin, Jo-wang (1998) “A Review of “Syntactic Dependencies in Chinese””, GLOT       International, Volum 3, Issue 4: 13-16.

19.  Lin, Jo-Wang (1998) “On Existential Polarity WH-phrases,” Journal of East   Asian Linguistics 7: 219-255. A&HCI

20.  Lin, Jo-Wang (1997/8) “On Wh...Dou Construction,” Tsing Hua Journal of    Chinese Studies 23: 51-81.

21.  Lin, Jo-Wang (1997) “Chinese Noun Phrase Structure: DP or NP?”, in Feng-fu Tsao and H. Samuel Wang (eds.) Chinese Language and Linguistics III: Morphology And Lexicon, Academia Sinica, Taipei, pp.401-434.

22.  Lin, Jo-Wang (1995) “Modals as Verbs in Chinese: A GB Perspective “ (With JaneTang), The Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology 66: 53-105,   Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

23.  Lin, Jo-Wang (1995) “On Tone Sandhi of Pronouns in Taiwanese,” Proceedings of North American Conference on Chinese Language and Linguistics VI (NACCL6), University Of Southern California, CA.

24.  Lin, Jo-Wang (1994) “Lexical Government and Tone Group Formation in Xiamen Chinese,” Phonology 11:237-275. A&HCI

25.  Lin, Jo-Wang (1994) “Object Expletives, Definiteness Effect and Scope   Interpretation,” Proceedings of North Eastern Linguistic Society 24 (NELS 24), Merce Gonzalez ed., University of Masschusetts, Amherst.

26.  Lin, Jo-Wang (1992) “The Syntax of Zenmeyang ‘how’ and Weishenme ‘why’ in Mandarin Chinese”, Journal of East Asian Linguistics 1: 293-331. A&HCI

Conference Papers(go top)

1.     Lin, Jo-wang (2006) “Predicate Restriction, Discontinuity Property and the Semantics of Guo”, Paper presented at IACL14 & IsCLL10, May 25-28, Academia Sinica, Taipei.

2.     Lin, Jo-wang (2006) “Accomplishments Revisited: New Thoughts and new Analysis”, Paper presented at the Fourth Workshop on Formal Syntax and Semantics, April 14-15, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi.

3.     Lin, Jo-wang (2006) “Time in a Language Without Tense: the Case of Chinese”, Paper presented at the fourth Annual Meeting of European Association of Chinese Linguistics, Department of East Asian Studies, January 20-22, Budapest, Hungary.

4.     Lin, Jo-wang (2005) “The Temporal Interpretation of Relative Clauses in Chinese”, Paper presented at the 14th IACL, June 9-11, Leiden Univerwsity.

5.     Lin, Jo-wang (2004) “漢語的完成動詞:二十年以後, Paper presented at the 9th International Symposium on Chinese Language and Linguistics (IsCLL 9, November 19-21, Taiwan University, Taipei.

6.     Lin, Jo-wang (2004) “Event Decomposition and the Syntax and Semantics of Chinese Durative Phrases”, paper presented at Workshop on Event Structures in Linguistic Form and Interpretation, March 17-19, Leipzig, Germany.

7.     Lin, Jo-wang (2003) “Event Decomposition and the Syntax and Semantics of Chinese Durative Phrases”, paper presented at the Second Workshop on Formal Syntax and Semantics, September 27-28, Academia Sinica, Taipei.

8.     Lin, Jo-wang (2002) “Cognition, Verb Meanings and Temporal References for Some Chinese Subordinate Clauses”, paper presented at the First Cognitive Linguistics Conference, January 13-14, National Chengchi University, Taiwan.

9.     Lin, Jo-wang (2002) “Choice Functions and Scope of Existential Polarity Wh-Phrases in Mandarin Chinese”, Paper presented at GLOW in Asia, January 4-7, Tsinghua University, Taiwan.

10.  Lin, Jo-wang (2001) “Aspectual Selection and Negation in Mandarin Chinese”, Paper read at the Workshop on Formal Syntax and Semantics, September 22, National Chiao Tung University.

11.  Lin, Jo-wang (2001) “The Semantics of Chinese Temporal Adverbial Clauses”, paper presented at IACL10/NACCL13, June 22-24, The Atrium Hotel, Irvine, California.

12.  Lin, Jo-wang (2000) “論 現代漢語的時間解釋”, The Seventh International Symposium on Chinese Language and Linguistics, December 22-24, Chungcheng University, Jiayi, Taiwan.

13.  Lin, Jo-wang (2000) “Comments on Greg Carlson’s ‘On the Interpretation of Some Determinerless Noun Phrases’, Linguistics in The Next Decade, August 13-15, Academia Sinica, Taipei.

14.  Lin, Jo-wang (2000) “On the Conditions of the Use of the Chinese Imperfective Aspectual Marker –Zhe and Its Temporal Meaning”, The 9th International Conference on Chinese Linguistics, June 26-28, York Hotel, Singapore.

15.  Lin, Jo-wang (1999) “On Non-Spcific Determiner Clitic in Chinese”, The 11th Annual Meeting of the North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, June 18-20, Harvard University, U.S.A.

16.  Lin, Jo-wang (1999) (With Hui-hui Jin) “Quantifier Raising, Feature Checking and Chinese Bound Pronouns”, The 8th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, July 5-7, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

17.  Lin, Jo-wang (1999) “On the Meaning of Shenme ‘what’ in Chinese Bare Conditionals and Its Implications for Carlson’s Semantics of Bare Plurals”, The 13th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, February 10-11, Yuansan Hotel, Taipei.

18.  Lin, Jo-wang (1998) “On the Temporal Meaning of the Verbal –le in Chinese”, The Sixth International Symposium on Chinese Language and Linguistics, July 13-16, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

19.  Lin Jo-Wang 1997 “Restrictive vs. Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses in Chinese,” The Seventh International Conference on Chinese Linguistics (ICCL 7) June 19-21, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherland.

20.  Lin, Jo-Wang 1996 “On Chinese Donkey Sentences,” The Fifth International Symposium on Chinese Language and Linguistics, Dec 27-28, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan.

21.  Lin, Jo-Wang 1996 “A Formal Semantic Analysis of Dou `All', The Sixth International Conference on Chinese Linguistics (ICCL 6), June 27-29, National Tsinghua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

22.  Lin, Jo-Wang 1995 “On The Nature of Existentially Quantified Wh-phrases,” The Seventh North American Conference on Chinese Language and Linguistics (NACCL 7), June, 1995, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

23.  Lin, Jo-Wang 1994 “Chinese Donkey Anaphora and Its Implications,” The Fourth Conference on Semantics And Linguistic Theory IV (SALT), May 6-8, 1994, University of Rochester, NY.

24.  Lin, Jo-Wang 1993 “Object Expletives, the Projection Principle and Raising to Object,” Abstract accepted by Formal Linguistic Society in the Midwest (FLSM) and International Conference on Chinese Linguistics (ICCL), May and June, 1993, University of Iowa and University of Paris VII.

25.  Lin, Jo-Wang 1993 “The Syntax and Semantics of Reciprocal Wh-constructions,” The Third Conference on Semantics And Linguistic Theory III (SALT), March 5-7, University of California, Irvine.

26.  Lin, Jo-Wang 1993 “Object Expletives, Definiteness Effect and Scope Interpretation,” The Fifth North American Conference on Chinese Language and Linguistics (NACCL 5), University of Delaware, Delaware.