Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Alexander Adelaar received both his MA (1977) and his PhD (1985) at Leiden University in
the field of Austronesian Historical Linguistics. Presently, Prof. Adelaar is a Principal Fellow at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, and holder of a Discovery Grant of the
Australian Research Council. Additionally, he held positions as visiting professors at the
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, at the Minpaku Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, and as
Associate professor and Reader in Indonesian in the Asia Institute in Melbourne. He is a
Humboldt Fellow since 1993 and a Fellow at the Academy of Humanities Australia and the
Académie Malgache (Madagascar).

 

As a Senior Research Fellow, he visited, among others,
the Center of Global South Studies at Cologne University, as well as the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies. His most recent book is titled Siraya. Retrieving the phonology, grammar and lexicon of a dormant Formosan language. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2011. He is also co-editor of The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Asia and Madagascar, in The Oxford Guide to the World’s Language Series, OUP.

Professor, Howard France Nostrand Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.

 

Edith Aldridge received her MA in Linguistics (1992) from Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, and her PhD in Linguistics (2004) from Cornell University with a thesis on Ergativity and Word Order in Austronesian Languages. Edith Aldridge was Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Linguistics of Northwestern University and Visiting Assistant Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Broke. Since 2013, she teaches and researches at the University of Washington, Seattle. She presently holds the position of Associate Professor in the Dept. of Linguistics, and as Adjunct Associate Professor in the Dept. of Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington. Additionally, she has been awarded with the Howard and Frances Nostrand Professorship. In 2013-14, she was Visiting Scholar at the Academia Sinica, Taiwan, and in 2014, she was Visiting Associate Professor at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (国立国語研究所).

 

Edith Aldridge was member of the board of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics for several years. She regularly conducts fieldwork on Austronesian languages in Taiwan as a Visiting Scholar of Academia Sinica, and of National Tsing Hua University. She is co-editor of Topics in Theoretical Asian Linguistics, edited by Kunio Nishiyama, Hideki Kishimoto, and Edith Aldridge, John Benjamins (to appear 2018). She has published widely in Austronesian linguistics and in Chinese and Japanese historical linguistics and she is a leading expert on the syntactic development of these languages.

Associate Professor, University of Grenoble Alpes, France.

 

Mariarosaria Gianninoto obtained her PhD in Asian Studies from Naples Oriental University (Italy), and her second Phd (Habilitation) (HDR) in Linguistics from the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (Paris, France). She is currently associate professor of Chinese at the University Grenoble Alpes (France) and a member of the Lidilem research group. She is the co-author of a volume on the history of Chinese linguistics (Storia della linguistica cinese, 2012) and the author or co-author of several articles on the history of Chinese linguistic and philological studies.

 

Many of her publications focus on the history of linguistics and on Western linguistic concepts of Chinese. These are represented by the articles: (forthcoming), “Women in the History of Chinese Linguistics”, in W. Ayres-Bennett et H. Sanson (eds), Women in the History of Linguistics, Oxford: Oxford University Press; (forthcoming), “Westerners Learning Chinese: 19th century didactic materials”, in N. McLelland et R. Smith (eds), The History of Language Learning and Teaching, Oxford, Legenda and (with G. Casacchia) (2017).

Professor, Humboldt Universtiy, Berlin, Germany.

 

Henning Klöter received his PhD (2003) in Sinology from Leiden University with a thesis entitled Written Taiwanese after working in Taipei as a translator and editor for two years. He worked as an Assistant Professor at National Taiwan Normal University between 2007 and 2009. In 2010, he received his second PhD (Habilitation) from Ruhr University Bochum with the thesis The Language of the Sangleys: A Chinese vernacular in missionary sources of the 17th century.

 

Henning Klöter is presently full professor at the Institute of Asian and African Studies of Humboldt University. He is vice president of the German Association of Chinese teachers and functioned as the secretary of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics. Klöter’s main research interests are Taiwan Studies, Missionary and Colonial Linguistics, History of European Linguistics, Historical Sociolinguistics, and all aspects of Multilingualism. He has widely published in these fields. His most recent books are: The language of the Sangleys: A Chinese vernacular in missionary sources of the seventeenth century. Leiden, Boston: Brill (2011), and the edited volume (with Bi-yu Chang) Imaging and Imagining Taiwan: Identity representation and cultural politics. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. (2012).

Professor, Institute of History, National Tsing Hua University.

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Yu-chung Lee received his BA (1995) at the Department of History at National Taiwan University and his PhD (2011) from the Institute of American History (including the Phillippines) of the University of Seville, Spain. He was principle investigator in the “North American Hakka Research Project”, and principal investigator of the project “The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Historical Materials on the Southern European History of China (I) Construction Project of the Spanish Digital Database”, founded by the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, beside other projects.

 

He was also the Director of the Taiwan Association of Southeast Asian Studies, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Monsoon Asian Studies and editor of Temas Americanistas Journal (Consejo de Redaccion). Additionally, he was visiting scholar of the Institute of Taiwan History of Academia Sinica, curator of the exhibition “Meeting Spain in Formosa” in the Taipei County Freshwater Heritage Park, and he is founder and Vice Chairman of the Hispanic-Taiwanese Association of Cultural Exchange. He received several honors, awards and fellowships, and authored and translated numerous books and articles on the history of East Asia and on contacts between the western world, particularly the Spanish speaking world, and East and Southeast Asia.

Professor National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

 

Chinfa Lien received his PhD (1987), as Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics, from the University of California at Berkeley. He has been Professor of Linguistics at the Graduate Institute of Linguistics in Hsin-Chu, Taiwan since 1993, also serving as its director from 1995- 1998. In 2004, he was appointed Chair Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences at the same university. Prof. Lien’s current research interests focus on diachronic change in Southern Min including detailed syntactic analyses of Ming and Qing dynasty plays and the interaction between chronological and dialectal strata in Chinese, to which he has applied the theory of lexical diffusion. In particular, he supports the hypothesis of bidirectional diffusion following Prof. William Wang.

 

His recent research roughly falls into two major categories: (1) lexical semantics and (2) functional categories. For lexical semantics, his major concern has been the issue of semantic extension and the interface between constructions and fixed expressions. For functional categories, Prof. Lien’s research ranges over a set of topics such as phase (or rather aktionsart) and aspect, deictic systems, directional patterns, interrogative and negative words, and mood. Chinfa Lien has coordinated many research projects mainly on the synchronic grammar of Southern Min; additionally he has conducted three projects on the language of Ming and Qing dynasty plays, supported by grants from the National Science Council of Taiwan and National Tsing Hua University. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including the prestigious National Science Council Awards for Outstanding Research (1995, 1999, 2002), Outstanding Scholar Award (2003-2008) (offered by the Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship) and National Science Council Awards under the Contract Research Award (offered by NSC) (2004-2006, 2006-2008). Prof. Lien has published widely in the fields of Chinese linguistics, Chinese dialect grammar and historical linguistics.

Professor, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

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Barbara Meisterernst received her MA (1992) and her PhD (1998) from the Institute of Sinology, the Institute of Germanic Studies, and the Institute of Linguistics at the University of Münster, Germany. She received her second PhD (Habilitation (2012) from the Sinology Department of the University of Hamburg with a thesis on Tense and Aspect in Han period Chinese (De Gruyter 2015). Barbara Meisterernst conducted her post-doc research at the Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l’Asie Orientale (CRLAO, EHESS), Paris, France; she taught and researched at the University of Ghent, Belgium, the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and at Humboldt University, Berlin. Barbara Meisterernst is founding member of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics and functioned as the secretary of EACL for several years.

 

Since 2017, she teaches and researches at National Tsing Hua University. Barbara Meisterernst specializes in Historical Linguistics of Chinese with particular focus on the diachronic development of the verbal system of Chinese. Additionally, she is interested in Buddhist Chinese and Silk Road studies and in studies on the History of Linguistics. She has been awarded several grants and projects to conduct her research. She has published numerous articles on Chinese historical linguistics and on Buddhist Chinese. She is the author of two books on grammatical issues of Classical and Early Middle Chinese, and the editor or co-editor of books on Chinese Linguistics in Europe, diachronic grammar, Silk Road Studies, and Chinese Applied linguistics.

PhD, JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow/Visiting Scholar at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.

 

Izumi Ochiai received a first MA (2009) from the Institute of Linguistics of National Taiwan University, and her second MA (2013) and her PhD (2016) from the Linguistics Department of Kyoto University. The topic of her PhD was Descriptive grammar of Paran Seediq and a Comparative Study of Non-volitional Prefixes. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies); at the same time, she is Visiting Scholar at National Tsing Hua University.

 

Her research focuses on Austronesian Languages in Taiwan, particularly on the Seediq language; she published several articles mainly on this topic. She taught at the Kyu Yeong Hann Japanese Institution, Taipei, Taiwan, the Global Village Organization, Taipei, Taiwan, and at the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University. She was Editor-in-chief of vol. 33 of Kyoto University Lingistic Research and editor of vol. 8 of Journal of Descriptive Linguistics Study Group.

Prof. emerit. EHESS/CNRS, Paris, France.

 

Alain Peyraube is currently Emeritus director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, Paris, France) and Chair professor of Chinese Linguistics at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris). He was director of the Institute of East Asian Linguistics (CNRS & EHESS) from 1985 to 2000, and director of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Collegium de Lyon, from 2010 to 2016. He held and holds positions as Adjunct professor at the University of Science and Technology of Hong Kong from 2005 to 2011, as well as Honorary Professor at the University of Beijing since 2007, Founding member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council (ERC) (2005-2013), and Distinguished member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences since 2009.

 

He became a member of the European Academy (Academia Europaea) in 2006, Chair of its Linguistics Section in 2013, and member of the Board of Trustees in 2016. Alain Peyraube served as President of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics and as President of the European Association of Chinese Studies. He was Visiting Professor and Visiting Scholar at Cornell University (Hu Shih Chair), at the University of California at Santa Barbara, at the Hong Kong Baptist University, at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Peking, at the Academia Sinica of Taiwan, and at La Trobe University in Australia. As a specialist in Chinese historical syntax and linguistic typology of Sinitic languages, A. Peyraube has authored five books and around two hundred articles on Chinese studies, mainly with respect to Chinese linguistics. His latest research has been carried out within a broadly functional and cognitive framework from a cross-linguistic perspective. He was conferred the title of Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur in 2008.

PhD, National Taipei University of Business.

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Dr. Chao-Kai Shih received his master’s degree from National Kaohsiung Normal University in 2009 and his doctoral degree from National Tsing Hua University in 2017. He worked on different dialects of the Bunun language, one of the Formosan languages, in his thesis and his dissertation.

 

He is the co-author of an Introduction to Bunun Grammar (2017) and he published several articles on Bunun within formal linguistics and typology frameworks. In addition, he has been investigating other Formosan languages such as Atayal and Paiwan. He is also active in the revitalization of Siraya, a dormant Formosan language. Since 2016, he has lectured courses such as Bunun Grammar, Formosan fieldwork and issues related to Siraya. He is currently a lecturer at National Taipei University of Business.

Professor, Kansai University, Japan.

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Uchida Keiichi is presently Professor of the Graduate Institute of East Asian Cultures and President of the Institute of Oriental and Occidental Studies, Kansai University. In the past two decades, Uchida Keiichi mainly researched the “Dissemination of Western learning towards the Orient” in China and the relationship between languages and culture. His research focuses particularly on documents in European languages written by Western missionaries from the 17th to 19th centuries and their influence on modern Chinese. By way of his research on the teaching and the research of “Guanhua” in Japan (including Ryukyu), Korea and surrounding areas, together with the study of the European and American perspectives, Prof. Uchida concentrates on the investigation of the true meaning and function of “Guanhua” and on the validity of external data. In recent years, he has advocated the establishment of a new discipline focusing on intercultural relations. His professional functions include ‘Executive Director of the Society for Testing Chinese Proficiency, Japan.

 

He was part and chairperson of the Committee of Suita City’s Education Commission, Vice president of the Association of Studies on the World History of Teaching the Chinese Language, President of the Chinese Modern Language Society, President of the Society for Cultural Interaction in East Asia, and Visiting Professor at the Beijing Foreign Languages University. Since 1985, he has published more than 300 papers. Amongst his most recent contributions are the Ryukyu Mandarin Text-book of Kansai University Special Collection of Nagazawa Bunko, Kansai University Publishing, 2015, and A Study of Cultural Interaction and Linguistic Contact Approaching Chinese Linguistics from the Periphery, V&R Unipress, 2017.

Professor, Kyoto University.

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Yoshida Yukata received his MA (1979) and his PhD (1983) in Linguistics at Kyoto University. His PhD program included a stay at The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. He is presently full professor at the Graduate School of Letters at Kyoto University. Additionally he is Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and Committee member of the Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum.

 

Prof. Yoshida’s research centers on linguistic and cultural exchange between China and the Western Regions, with particular regard to the Sogdian merchant communities in China and on the Silk Roads. His research extends to Sogdian religion and history, including the areas in contact with the Sogdiana. He published several books on manuscripts in Iranian languages found on the Silk Road. His most recent books are: - The visual arts, language and literature of the Sogdians, Kyoto 2011 (co-author), and - Studies of the Chinese Manichaean paintings of South Chinese origin preserved in Japan, Kyoto 2015.