Hsiu-chuan Liao

magnificent rice terraces at Batad, Ifugao, the Philippines (a UNESCO-recognized World Heritage site)

All the world's a stage,

And all the men and women merely players:

They have their exits and their entrances;

And one man in his time plays many parts,

His acts being seven ages.

--William Shakespeare As You Like It

• HC's non-academic website (last updated: August 27, 2008)

CONTENTS

1. Courses
2. Research Interests
3. Dissertation
4. Education
5. Honors, Awards, and Fellowships
6. Experience
7. Publications
8. Conference Presentations
9. Research Projects
10. Thesis/Dissertation Committee
11. Professional Service

Courses

GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS, NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY

Fall 2008

• GPTS530100: General Linguistics (普通語言學) (last updated: September 20, 2008)

• LING575900: Methods of Language Documentation (語言記載方法) [*offered in English] (last updated: October 3, 2008)

• LING500900/GPTS510000: Introduction to Linguistics—Advanced-level (高級語言學概論)

• LING560100: Language Universals and Linguistic Typology (語言的普遍性與語言類型)

• LING501000: The Comparative Method (語言學比較方法) [*offered in English]

• LING580600: Comparative Studies of Formosan and Philippine Languages (臺灣與菲律賓南島語之比較)

• LING500800: Research Methods (研究指導)

• GPTS500100: Research Methods (研究方法)

• LING581000: Introduction to Languages of Taiwan (臺灣語言導論)

• LING505900: Topics in Historical Linguistics: Distant Genetic Relationships (歷史語言學專題:遠距語言親屬關係)

• LING506100: Topics in Historical Linguistics II: Language and Culture (歷史語言學專題 II: 語言與文化)

***Note: Most of the above courses will be offered every two ~ three years.

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS, DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY—MANILA

September 2004-August 2006

• ENG535M: Foundations of Language Studies

• ENG622M: Grammatical Structure of English

• LIN625P: Current Syntactic Theory—Minimalist Program

• LIN626P: Advanced Grammar of Philippine Languages

• LIN835P: Introduction to Historical Linguistics

• LIN836P: Austronesian Linguistics I—Morphosyntax

• LIN837P: Austronesian Linguistics II—Phonology and Lexicon

• LIN838P: Linguistic Prehistory of the Philippines

• LIN839P: Comparative Studies of Western Austronesian Languages

• LIN840P: Comparative Studies of Eastern Austronesian Languages

left: HC and her students at De La Salle University, Manila, the Philippines

right: sunset by Manila Bay 

DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS, UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I AT MĀNOA

• Fall 2003: Ling 422: Introduction to Grammatical Analysis (for graduate and undergraduate students)

• Fall 2002:  Ling 640X(2): The Syntax of Ergative Languages (for graduate students)

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Research Interests

• Austronesian Linguistics (internal and external relationships of Philippine languages; grammatical typology of western Austronesian languages; Austronesian culture history)

• Historical Linguistics (drift; distant genetic relationships; diachronic development of personal pronouns in Philippine languages; diachronic development of verbal morphology in Philippine languages) 

• Syntactic Typology (transitivity; ergativity; grammatical relations; voice systems; noun incorporation; syntactic categories; relative clauses)

• Syntactic Theory (both formalist and functionalist approaches)

• Morphology (approaches to morphological analysis)

• Language Documentation and Conservation

• Lexicography

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Dissertation

• Areas: Syntax, Typology, Historical Linguistics, Austronesian Linguistics (Formosan and Philippine Languages)

• Title: Transitivity and Ergativity in Formosan and Philippine Languages [summary]

• Committee Members:

   Professor Lawrence A. Reid (Chair): Austronesian Linguistics (Formosan and Philippine Languages); Syntax

   Professor Robert A. Blust: Austronesian Linguistics and Culture (Formosan Languages and Languages of Borneo); Historical Linguistics

   Professor Byron W. Bender: Morphology; Austronesian Linguistics (Micronesian Languages)

   Professor Alexander Vovin : Historical-Comparative Linguistics; Descriptive Linguistics (Japanese, Korean, Ainu, and Manchu-Tungusic Languages)

   Professor P. Bion Griffin : Ethnoarchaeology (Philippine Negritos)

left: HC and her dissertation committee members (left to right: Byron, Laurie, Bion, HC, Bob, and Sasha)

right: HC being congratulated with leis after passing her dissertation defense (March 12, 2004)

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Education

• Ph.D. (Linguistics), University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, May 2004.

  Dissertation: Transitivity and Ergativity in Formosan and Philippine Languages

  --funded by the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (USA)

  --received HONORARY MENTION, ALT Junior Prize (for the best dissertation on typology submitted between 2001 and 2004), the Association for Linguistic Typology
  

• M.A. (Linguistics), University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 1998.

Linguistic Institutes, Linguistic Society of America

• University of California at Berkeley, Summer 2009 [to be held from July 6, 2009 to August 13, 2009] [A list of courses is available now]

• University of California at Santa Barbara, Summer 2001.

• Cornell University, Summer 1997.

left: HC and her advisor Laurie in doctoral gowns, hoods, and caps (Commencement Exercises: May 16, 2004)

right: HC after attending the 93rd Annual Commencement Exercises, UHM (background: Bob and Laurie)

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Honors, Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

• National Tsing Hua University Research Incentive (國立清華大學97學年度特聘講座及特聘教授榮譽加給), August 2008-July 2009 [97N2202E1].

• Travel Grant for International Conference, National Science Council, the Executive Yuan, Taiwan (for attending the 18th International Congress of Linguists (CIL 18)) (行政院國家科學委員會國內專家學者出席國際學術會議補助) , July 2008 (approx. US$1,320.00) [NSC 97-2914-I-007-016-A1].

• Professorial Chair Holder 2006, The Brother Andrew Gonzalez, FSC, Distinguished Professorial Chair in Linguistics and Language Education (honored by the Linguistic Society of the Philippines on March 4, 2006).

• HONORARY MENTION, ALT Junior Prize (for the best dissertation on typology submitted between 2001 and 2004), the Association for Linguistic Typology, May 2005.

• DLSU Science Foundation Travel Subsidy for Paper Presenters (for attending the 15th Annual Southeast Asian Linguistics Society Meeting (SEALS XV)), 2005.

• VPAR Faculty Development Travel Grant, Faculty Development Program, Office of the VPAR (Vice President for Academics and Research), De La Salle University-Manila, 2005.

• Grant for Registration Fee for International Conference, DLSU Science Foundation, 2005.

• Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (USA), July 2001.

• Linguistic Institute Student Fellowship, Linguistic Society of America (full tuition waiver for the 2001 LSA Summer Institute held at the University of California at Santa Barbara), 2001.

• Endowment Fund, Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (for attending the 9th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (9-ICAL)), 2001.

• Graduate Assistantship, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, August 1997-June 2001.

• Pacific Asian Scholarship (PAS) Tuition Waiver, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, January 1997-June 2000.

• Arts and Sciences Advisory Council Awards, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (for attending the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute at Cornell University), 1997.

• Tuition Differential Waiver, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, August 1996-June 2001.

   

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Experience

Teaching

2006 –Present     Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University.

2004–2006         Visiting Professor, Department of English and Applied Linguistics, De La Salle University-Manila.

Fall 2003            Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa: “Ling 422: Introduction to Grammatical Analysis (core course in syntax for graduate students in the Department of Linguistics)”.

Fall 2002           Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa: “Ling 640X (2): The Syntax of Ergative Languages (upper-division graduate course in syntactic typology)”.

Editing

2002 – 2005    (with Carl Rubino) Editor, Current issues in Philippine linguistics and anthropology: Parangal kay Lawrence A. Reid.  Manila: Linguistic Society of the Philippines and SIL Philippines. [ISBN #: 971-780-022-7]

2003              (with Albert J. Schütz) Editor, Digests of selected papers presented at AFLA X (also published as Working Papers in Linguistics 34 (2), Available on-line at http://www.ling.hawaii.edu.afla/digests/index.html).

2003              Editor, Say it in Fijian: An entertaining introduction to the standard language of Fiji (Albert J. Schütz, Suva: Textbook Wholesalers Ltd., New edition, 2003).

2001–2002    Student Editor, Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.  Working Papers in Linguistics (Vol. 31–Vol. 33).  Supervisor: Professor Albert J. Schütz.

1993–1995    

Editor, Foreign Languages Editorial Department, San-Min Book Company, Taipei, Taiwan.

Coordinator, Dictionary Project: The New Century English-Chinese Dictionary (published in 1995, Taipei: San-Min Book Company).  

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Publications

Articles in Refereed Journals

• Liao, Hsiu-chuan.   2008.  A typology of first person dual pronouns and their reconstructibility in Philippine languages.  Oceanic Linguistics 47(1): 1-29. [abstract] [A&HCI]

• Liao, Hsiu-chuan.  2005.  Another look at the order of clitic pronouns in Wulai Atayal.  Concentric: Studies in Linguistics 31(1): 47 – 63. [abstract]

• Reid, Lawrence A., and Hsiu-chuan Liao. 2004.  A brief syntactic typology of Philippine languages.  Language and Linguistics 5(2): 433–490. [abstract]

• Liao, Hsiu-chuan. 2002.  The interpretation of tu and Kavalan ergativity.  Oceanic Linguistics 41(1):140 –158. [abstract] [A&HCI]

Book Chapters

• Liao, Hsiu-chuan.  2005.  Pronominal forms in Central Cagayan Agta: Clitics or agreement features?  In Current issues in Philippine linguistics and anthropology: Parangal kay Lawrence A. Reid, ed. by Hsiu-chuan Liao and Carl Rubino, 346-363.  Manila: Linguistic Society of the Philippines and SIL Philippines. [abstract]

• Reid, Lawrence A., and Hsiu-chuan Liao. 2004.  Typologie syntaxique des langues des Philippines.  Faits de Langues (Les langues austronésiennes) 23, ed. by Elizabeth Zeitoun.  Gap: Ophrys.

Edited Book

• Liao, Hsiu-chuan, and Carl Rubino, eds.  2005.   Current issues in Philippine linguistics and anthropology: Parangal kay Lawrence A. Reid.  Manila: Linguistic Society of the Philippines and SIL Philippines. [ISBN #: 971-780-022-7]

Book launch: Carl and HC presented Laurie with the Festschrift Current issues in Philippine linguistics and anthropology: Parangal kay Lawrence A. Reid (10-ICAL, Legend Hotel, Puerto Princesa, Palawan, the Philippines, January 17, 2006).

Dissertation (unpublished)

• Liao, Hsiu-chuan.  2004.  Transitivity and Ergativity in Formosan and Philippine Languages.  Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. (582pp. + xxiv) [summary].
   -- received HONORARY MENTION, ALT Junior Prize (for the best dissertation on typology submitted between 2001 and 2004) from the Association for Linguistic Typology.

    

In Preparation

• Liao, Hsiu-chuan.  In Preparation.  A typology of benefactive-affect verbs in Philippine languages.

• Liao, Hsiu-chuan.  In Preparation.  The state of the art of the documentation of Philippine languages.

• Liao, Hsiu-chuan.  In Preparation.  When a first person participant meets a second person participant: Irregularities in Philippine personal pronoun systems.

• Liao, Hsiu-chuan.  In Preparation.  Philippine linguistics: The state of the art: 1981-2008. 

• Reid, Lawrence A., and Hsiu-chuan Liao. In Preparation. Syntactic typology of Philippine languages (monograph version).

Working Paper

• Liao, Hsiu-chuan. 1999 –2000.  The Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy revisited: A view from ergative languages.  Working Papers in Linguistics 31:121 – 142.  Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. [abstract]