PROGRAM — 25-27 April 2008, The Ohio State University
- PROGRAM SCHEDULE
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NACCL-20 Program Schedule (pdf file; 2.1 MB, including floor plans, chartered bus schedule & a map) — Conference Program Changes - The program schedule for NACCL-20 and the conference program changes are downloadable here as PDF files.
Those Who Have Pre-Registered: Your conference packet includes the Program Book, which contains the program schedule, the abstracts, authors' index, floor plans for Ramseyer Hall, chartered bus schedule, etc. Please pick up your conference packet at the conference site starting on Friday morning at the On-Site Registration table in Ramseyer Hall, Room 136.
On-Site Registration (RA 136 (lounge): Fri. & Sat.: 7:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Conference Program: Including three plenary papers, 115 papers — representing over 70 institutions in 13 countries/regions around the world — will be presented during the 2-1/2 days of the conference. With a packed schedule covering all aspects of Chinese linguistics, there are four parallel sessions on the first two full days, and three parallel sessions on the final morning of the event. We look forward to your attendance at this exciting event!
Conference Proceedings: The Proceedings of 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics will be published after the conference ends, and will be available in digital format at the NACCL-20 website. (For more information, see Proceedings.) - INVITED SPEAKERS — See the next section below.
- DATES — 25-27 April 2008. The conference begins first thing Friday morning (25 April 2008) with one plenary speaker, and ends around noon on Sunday (27 April 2008).
- REGISTRATION — Online registration for attending the NACCL-20 conference at the Pre-Registration rate is open until 7 April 2008. Plan early, as registration is limited!
- VENUE — NACCL-20 will be held on The Ohio State University campus in four multimedia classrooms (with computer, LCD projector, speakers, etc.) in Ramseyer Hall (in yellow on the map, Building 090), located on 29 W. Woodruff Avenue, on the corner of West Woodruff Avenue and North High Street. The third plenary session, which is a public lecture open to all, will be held in Hagerty Hall (in light green, Building 037), on 1775 College Road. [Click on the map to the right for a full, large image that is displayed in a new tab.] (Note: On-campus parking locations — both parking spaces adjacent to buildings and separate complexes — are color-coded on the map. The buildings in pink and light blue respectively are parking garages. For on campus parking, see our information at Travel: OSU Campus Parking. The original, unedited map used on this page is from the Main Campus Visitors Parking Map.)
Ramseyer Hall, where the first two plenary sessions and the main sessions are held, is located on North High Street, directly across from Wendy's, Buckeye Donuts, and other campus district shops and eateries. Ramseyer Hall is 2.2 miles from the conference hotel.
Chartered Bus Schedule (pdf file) — Chartered buses will be available in the morning and evening during the conference to take conference participants between the conference hotel and the conference site on the OSU campus.
In addition to (1) shuttle service available to the conference hotel's guests and (2) the conference's chartered buses for NACCL-20 participants (see above), there are yet a third means of transportation between hotel and conference site on campus, namely, city bus lines between campus and the conference hotel. The bus ride is about 10 minutes. (See our web page, Columbus: Ramseyer Hall & Conference Hotel – Bus lines.) The distance between Ramseyer Hall and Port Columbus International Airport is about 8 to 9 miles, the distance depending on whether one travels by surface road or by freeway.
- SPECIAL INVITED GUEST AND SPEAKER
flyer - pdf file)Born in the city of Calgary, in Alberta, Canada, Professor Pulleyblank is one of the world’s most respected and influential scholars in Chinese linguistics and Chinese history. During his long and productive career dedicated to sinology that spans sixty years, Professor Pulleyblank has published widely on Chinese history, Chinese historical linguistics, and general linguistics. With respect to Chinese linguistics, his research and publications — in both articles and books — have had immense impact in shaping the ideas of his peers and of later generations of scholars researching in Chinese linguistics, especially in Chinese historical phonology and classical Chinese grammar. As our special invited guest and speaker who has graciously accepted our invitation to join in celebrating NACCL's 20th anniversary, the Proceedings of the Twentieth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics will be affectionately dedicated to Professor Pulleyblank, in honor of his eighty-fifth birthday, which he celebrated on 7 August 2007.
Professor Pulleyblank's lecture — entitled "Language as Digital: A New Theory of the Origin and Nature of Human Speech" — will be co-sponsored with The Institute for Chinese Studies. As this lecture will be part of the Institute's "Rethinking China Lecture Series," Professor Pulleyblank's lecture will not be restricted to conference attendees; instead, it will be a public lecture that is open to everyone. The lecture will be held on Saturday, 5:00-6:00 p.m. in 180 Hagerty Hall (Building 037, 1775 College Road).
- KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
- James H-Y. Tai (戴浩一), National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Professor Tai was the architect and senior organizer of NACCL-1 (NECCL-1) while he was a faculty member at The Ohio State University. Founder of the Graduate Institute of Linguistics at National Chung Cheng University, and recently awarded the Distinguished University Professor title at his institution, Professor Tai's academic career spans three decades, with the first two in the United States before being lured back to Taiwan to establish the first Graduate Institute of Linguistics there, at National Chung Cheng University. He is one of our field's leading scholars researching on modern Chinese grammar, and is particularly influential in his functional-cognitive approach to grammar. Professor Tai has garnered a number of large grants that have funded innovative research on Chinese dialects in Taiwan, as well as more recent research on Taiwan Sign Language. His keynote speech for NACCL-20 is entitled, "The Nature of Chinese Grammar: Perspectives from Sign Language." - Yen-hui Audrey Li (李艷惠), University of Southern California
Professor Li organized NACCL-6, and is the creator of the NACCL Proceedings series that has, since NACCL-6, been distributed by USC's GSIL Publications. Professor Li holds a joint appointment in two departments at the University of Southern California: in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and in the Department of Linguistics. Professor Li's formal linguistic approach to Chinese syntax has impacted the field with influential articles and books on Chinese grammar. With boundless energy, Professor Li is also extremely active in the Chinese profession at large, serving simultaneously as Treasurer of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL) and as President of the Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA) this year. Her keynote speech for NACCL-20 is entitled, "Case, 20 Years Later."
- MORE INVITED SPEAKERS
- Thomas Ernst (殷天兴), University of Massachusetts, and Dartmouth College
Professor Ernst organized NACCL-5, and created and coordinated the NACCL Steering Committee to ensure that NACCL conferences would be hosted each year, and that new hosts would be able to receive advice for hosting the conference. His presentation is entitled, "Adverbs and positive polarity in Mandarin Chinese." - Robert Sanders (沈德思), University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Professor Sanders is returning for a reunion as the third of the original trio who organized the first NACCL conference at The Ohio State University. His presentation will be on "Tonetic sound change in Taiwan Mandarin: The case of Tone 2 and Tone 3 citation contours."