General Information

 

ADDRESS            Department of Asian Languages & Literature

Box 353521

                                University of Washington

                                Seattle, WA 98195

                                Tel. (206) 543-4165; Fax (206) 685-4268

                                E-mail: anneyue@u.washington.edu

CURRENT POSITION  Professor of Chinese Language and Linguistics

                                                     Adjunct professor of Linguistics

AREAS OF RESEARCH         Dialectology, Grammar, Phonology, Typology, Areal Linguistics

COURSES OFFERED

           CHINESE 541                             Seminar in Chinese Grammar (Synchronic; Diachronic)

           CHINESE 544                             Seminar in Chinese Dialectology; Field Method

           CHINESE 540                             Seminar in Chinese Linguistics (Special Topics)

           CHINESE 443                             Structure of Chinese

           CHINESE 411-412-413               Advanced Chinese Language (Fourth Year Chinese)

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

EDUCATION

Institution                                                        Degree                                        

Ohio State University                                    Ph.D. in Linguistics       

University of Texas (Austin)                        M.A. in Linguistics 

University of Hong Kong                             B.A. Honors in English Literature

 

LANGUAGE

Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese) and English; reading knowledge of Japanese, French and German; academic knowledge of Sanskrit, Russian, Manchu and Korean

         

ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD

Institution                                                                   Position                                                 Dates

University of Washington                                       Professor                                      1994-present

(Department of Asian Languages & Literature)             

University of Washington                                       Adjunct Professor                               March 2001 -

(Department of Linguistics)                                                                                                     present

Chinese University of Hong Kong                         Honorary Professor                             since 2001

(Department of Chinese)

City University of Hong Kong                                Visiting Professor                                 May 2000

Chinese University of Hong Kong                         Visiting Professor                                 January-April 2000

Pomona College                                                         Assistant Professor                             1979‑80

 (Department of Modern Languages)                    Visiting Assistant Professor               1978‑79

University of California, Berkeley                           Research Specialist in Linguistics     6/77‑3/78

 (Project on Linguistic Analysis)

Institute of Asian and African                                 Co‑Researcher in Chinese Linguistics        1974‑78

     Languages and Cultures, Tokyo

University of Washington                                       Visiting Lecturer                                   Summer 1974

 (Dept. of Asian Languages & Literature)

Princeton University                                                 Senior Research Sinologist                1968‑73

 (Chinese Linguistics Project)

Osaka City University, Japan                                  Lecturer                                                 1967‑68

 (Department of English)

UNESCO Center for East Asian                              Lecturer                                                 Summer 1967

     Cultural Studies, Japan         

University of Hawaii                                     Lecturer in Linguistics                        Summer 1966

 (Department of Linguistics)

Ohio State University                                   Research Associate                             1965‑66

 (Division of Linguistics)                                         Research Assistant                              1963‑65

University of Texas, Austin                                     Research Assistant                              1962‑63

 (Linguistics Research Center)

 

RESEARCH GRANTS, PROJECTS

Agency (project/grant title)                                                          Dates                       Role 

Chiang Ching‑kuo Foundation for International Scholarly     May 2002               P.I./ Director

           Exchange Conference Grant                                                                   

Chiang Ching‑kuo Foundation for International Scholarly     May 1999               P.I./ Director

           Exchange Publication Grant                                                                    

Chiang Ching‑kuo Foundation for International Scholarly     May 1998               P.I./ Director

           Exchange Conference Grant                                                                   

Chiang Ching‑kuo Foundation for International Scholarly     9/92-7/95                P.I./ Director

           Exchange (Lexical Diffusion in Chinese Grammar)                                                    

Chiang Ching‑kuo Foundation for International Scholarly     7/90-8/92                P.I./ Director

           Exchange (Comparative Chinese Dialectal Grammar)                                            

National Endowment for the Humanities                                    8/90-8/92                P.I./ Director

           (Comparative Chinese Dialectal Grammar)                                           

National Endowment for the Humanities                                    12/88‑6/90              P.I./ Director

           (Comparative Chinese Dialectal Grammar)                                                   

National Endowment for the Humanities                                    9/84-3/85                P.I.

           (Fellowship for Independent Study and Research)       

American Council of Learned Societies & the Social Science 6-9/1982                 P.I.

           Research Council (Summer Research Grant)        

American Council of Learned Societies & the Social Science 9/72-2/73                P.I.

           (Research Grant)                                            

 

FIELD WORK EXPERIENCE

Field work on over thirty Chinese dialects from five different dialect groups:  Yue, Hakka, Min, Wu and Mandarin -- including Shaoguan (2 varieties), Shunde (3 varieties), Nanhai, Zhuhai, Shenzhen, Taishan (3 varieties), Kaiping, Yangchun, Gaozhou, Wuchuan, Lianzhou (3 varieties), Gaoyao, Gaoming, Huazhou (2 varieties), Tengxian, Hong Kong Cantonese (all Yue dialects); Maoming, Fangcheng, Huiyang, Taiwan Xinzhu (all Hakka); Suixi, Yilan, Wenchang, Jieyang, Pingyang, Zhangzhou, Fuzhou (all Min); Suzhou, Shanghai, Anji (Wu); Kunming, Lanzhou, Xining, Huoxian (all Mandarin). 

Field work on non-Sinitic languages -- Longming (a Tai dialect of Southwestern China), Newari and Sherpa (Tibeto-Burman).

 

PROFESSIONAL OFFICES, RECOGNITION

International Association of Chinese Linguistics          President,                                              1999-2000

Vice President,                                      1998-99

Executive Committee Member,           1993-95

American Oriental Society -- Western Branch, Nominating Committee Member, 1981-84

Academia Sinica -- Institute of Linguistics, Academic Advisory Committee member, since 2004

Institute of Linguistics Preparatory Office, Academic Advisory Committee member, 2000-2004

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology -- School of Humanities and Social Science, Advisory Committee member, since 2001

Huazhong Technological University (Wuhan, China) -- Chinese Linguistic Research Institute, Honorary Academic Committee member, 1982 --

Yuyanxue Luncong 語言學論叢 (Peking University) -- Editorial Committee member, since 2001

Yue Fangyan 粵方言 (China) -- Advisory Committee member, since 2004. 

Contemporary Research in Modern Chinese 現代中國語研究 (Japan) -- Contributing Editor, since 2000

International Review of Chinese Linguistics 國際中國語言學評論 (Hong Kong) -- Advisory Board & Editorial Committee member, 1996

Listed in The World’s Who’s Who of Woman.        

 

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS:    

2004        The Dancun Dialect of Taishan. Information Sciences Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong, 392pp. [in press]

2004        Historical Aspects of the Chinese Language 漢語史研究 -- 紀念李方桂先生百歲冥誕論文集, co-edited with Pang-Hsin Ting, Taiwan: Academia Sinica, 600+pp..

2000        In Memory of Professor Li Fang-kuei: Essays on Linguistic Change and the Chinese Dialects 《李方桂先生紀念論文集》, co-edited with Pang-Hsin Ting, Taiwan: Academia Sinica, ix + 417pp.

1997        In Memory of Mantaro J. Hashimoto, co-edited with Mitsuaki Endo, Tokyo: Uchiyama Book Company, 375 + iv pp.

1993        Comparative Chinese Dialectal Grammar -- Handbook for Investigators (Collection des Cahiers de Linguistique d'Asie Orientale 1).  Paris: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale. vii+313pp.

1986        Chugokugo-no Bunpokozo 中國語の文法構造 (Japanese translation of Mandarin Syntactic Structures). Tokyo:      Hakuteisha & Co. 154 pp.

1985        The Suixi Dialect of Leizhou:  A Study of Its Phonological, Lexical and Syntactic Structure.  Ng Tor-tai Chinese Language Research Centre, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 373 pp.

1982        Xiandai Hanyu Jufa Jiegou 現代漢語句法結構 (Chinese translation of Mandarin Syntactic Structures). Harbin: Heilongjiang People's Press. 122 pp.      

1972        Studies in Yue Dialects 1: Phonology of Cantonese. Cambridge University Press.  xxiii+755 pp.+5 maps.

                                          

RESEARCH MONOGRAPHS:

1979        The Teng-xian Dialect of Chinese: Its Phonology, Lexicon and Texts with Grammatical Notes. Computational Analysis of Asian and African Languages Monograph Series, No. 3, Tokyo. 357 pp.

1973        A Guide to the Tai-shan Dialect. Monograph  #061855, Educational Resources Information Center, Washington, D.C. 360 pp.

1971        Mandarin Syntactic Structures. Unicorn No. 8. Chinese Linguistics Project and Seminar, Princeton University. 149 pp.

1966        Embedding Structures in Mandarin.  Project on Linguistic Analysis Report No. 12, Ohio State University Research Foundation. 255pp.

1964        A Text-Oriented Chinese Grammar.  Linguistic Research Center, University of Texas. 43 pp.

                    

ARTICLES:

2004        "Materials for the diachronic study of the Yue dialects," Festschrift for William S-Y Wang, pp.

2004     “The notions ‘Inner’ versus ‘Outer’ in the development of the nasal endings across Chinese dialects", Historical Aspects of the Chinese Language 漢語史研究 -- 紀念李方桂先生百歲冥誕論文集 (Pang-Hsin Ting & Anne O Yue eds, Taiwan: Academia Sinica), pp.

2004        “Two focus markers in the Zhongshan Bronze Inscriptions,” Meaning and Form: Pre-Modern Chinese Grammar (K. Takashima & Jiang Shaoyu eds., Mu_nchen, Germany: Lincom Europe, 2004), pp. 241-266.

2003        “Development of the stop endings in the Yue dialects,” in Dialect Variations in Chinese -- Papers from the Third International Conference on Sinology, Linguistics Section (Dah-an Ho ed., Academia Sinica) 南北是非﹕漢語方言的差異與變化 -- 第三屆國際漢學會議論文集語言組 (何大安主編，中央研究院), pp. 217-245.

2003        “Chinese dialects: grammar,” chapter 6 of The Sino-Tibetan Languages (G. Thurgood & R. J. LaPolla eds.), Routledge Language Family Series 5, pp. 84-125.

2003        “Shangshu de ding-zhong jiegou 尚書的定中結構 (The attributive construction in the Book of Documents),”   《中國語文研究》(Institute of Chinese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong) No. 15, pp. 1-8.

2001        "The verb-complement construction in historical perspective with special reference to Cantonese," in Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on the Grammar of Sinitic Languages, Oxford University Press, pp. 232-265.

2001        "Hakka," in Facts about the World's Languages (Jane Garry & Carl Rubino eds, New England Publishing Associates), pp.142-145.

2001        "Yue," in Facts about the World's Languages (Jane Garry & Carl Rubino eds, New England Publishing Associates), pp.164-168.

2001        "The historic role of the late Professor Y.R. Chao's 1929 field materials," Language and Linguistics (Taiwan: Academia Sinica) 2.1, pp.197-228.

2000        “Yueyin gouni zhi yi: shengdiao 粵音構擬之一﹕聲調 (Reconstruction of the Yue dialects I: Tones),” 《中文學刊》(Chinese University of Hong Kong) 2, pp.227-241.

2000        (co-author with K. Takashima) “Evidence of possible dialect mixture in oracle-bone inscriptions”, In Memory of Professor Li Fang-kuei: Essays on Linguistic Change and the Chinese Dialects (Pang-Hsin Ting & Anne Yue eds, Taiwan: Academia Sinica), pp.1-52.

2000        (In Chinese) “Yueyu fanyan de lishi yanjiu--du Mo Shizhi Guangzhou Suhua Shujing Jieyi 粵語方言的歷史研究--讀《麥仕治廣州俗話<書經>解義》(A historical study of the Yue dialect: The Book of Documents Translatied into Colloquial Cantonese by Mo Shizhi), Zhongguo Yuwen 279, pp. 497-507.

1999        "The Min translation of the Doctrina Christiana", Contemporary Studies on the Min Dialects (Pang-Hsin Ting ed.), Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monograph No. 13, pp. 42-76.

1999        "The so-called pivotal construction in pre-Qin Chinese," In Honor of Mei Tsulin: Studies on Chinese Historical Syntax and Morphology, A. Peyraube & C. Sun eds., Paris: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale, pp. 327-360.

1999        (In Chinese) "Maijin ershiyi shiji de Xianggang yuyan jiaoyu 邁進二十一世紀的香港語言教育 (Language education in Hong Kong in the 21st century)," 《中國語文通訊》Chinese Language & Literature Newsletter (Chinese University of Hong Kong) 52, pp. 1-18.

1998        "Zhi 之 in pre-Qin Chinese,” T'oung Pao lxxxiv, 239-292.

1997        “Syntactic change in progress -- Part I: the comparative construction in Hong Kong Cantonese,”in In Memory of Mantaro J. Hashimoto, pp. 329-375.

1995        (In Chinese) “Guangdong Kaiping fangyan de “de” zi jiegou -- cong “zhe zhi” fengong tandao yufa leixing fenbu 廣東開平方言的"的"字結構 -- 從之者分工談到語法類型分布 (Attributive and nominalized constructions in the Kaiping dialect of Guangdong -- from the division of labor between zhe and zhi to syntactic typology),” Zhongguo Yuwen (Chinese Language and Script, Beijing) 247, pp. 289-297.

1995        (In Chinese) "Yueyu yanjiu de dangqian keti 粤语研究的当前课题 (Current issues in the study of the Yue dialects),” Journal of Chinese Linguistics, pp. 1-41.

1994        "Development of the Xiamen neutral question forms," In Honor of William S-Y. Wang (Taiwan: Pyramid Press, M. Chen & O. Tseng ed.), 593-610.

1993        "The lexicon in syntactic change -- lexical diffusion in Chinese syntax," Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Vol.21.2, pp. 213-54.

1993        "In memoriam: Professor Zhu Dexi -- His academic contributions," Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Vol.21.1, pp. 198-203. Chinese translation 記念朱德熙先生 in Zhongguo Yuwen (Chinese Language & Writing, Beijing) 235, pp. 273-4.

1992        (In Chinese) "Guangdong Kaiping fangyan de zhongxing wenju 廣東開平方言的中性問句 (Neutral questions in the Kaiping dialect of Guangdong)," Zhongguo Yuwen 229, pp. 279-286.

1991        "Stratification in comparative dialectal grammar: A case in Southern Min," Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Vol.19-2, pp. 172-201.

1991        (In Chinese) "Yueyu fangyan fenqu wenti chutan 粵語方言分區問題初探 (Survey of the subclassification problem of the Yue dialects)," Fangyan (Dialects, Beijing) 3, pp. 164-181.        

1991        "The Yue dialect," in Languages and Dialects of China (Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monograph Series Number 3, William S. Wang ed.), pp. 294-324.                 

1988        (In Chinese) "Hanyu fangyan yufa de bijiao yanjiu 漢語方言語法的比較研究 (On the comparative study of Chinese dialectal syntax)," Bulletin of the Institute of History & Philology (Taipei), Vol. LIX, Part 1, pp. 23-41.                         

1988        "A preliminary investigation into the subclassification problem of the Yue dialects," Computational Analyses of Asian & African Languages, Tokyo, No. 30, pp. 7-42.

1988        (In Chinese) "Yueyu yanjiu 粵語研究(A study of the Yue dialects)," Yuwen Yanjiu (Linguistic Research, Taiyuan) 1988-2, pp. 42-50.

1987        "Tone sandhi across Chinese dialects," Wang Li Memorial Volumes: English Volume (Chinese Language Society of Hong Kong ed.), pp. 445-474.

1986        "Tonal flip-flop in Chinese dialects," Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Vol. 14-2, pp. 161-182.

1986        (In Chinese) "On the teaching of tones," Papers for the 1st International Conference on Teaching Chinese as a 2nd Language (Beijing Language Institute Press), pp. 229-235.

1983        (In Chinese) "Yunwei seyin yu shengdiao---Leizhou fangyan yi li 韻尾塞音與聲調--雷州 方言一例 (The relation between terminal plosives and tones--an example from the Leizhou dialect)," Yuyan Yanjiu (Wuhan, Linguistic Research), Vol. 4, pp. 100-108.

1982        (In Chinese) "Suixi fangyanli de wen-bai yidu 遂溪方言裡的文白異讀 (The differences between the literary and the vernacular readings in the Sui-hsi dialect)," Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology (Taipei), Vol. 53-2, pp. 353-366.

1980        "Word play in language acquisition: a Mandarin case," Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Vol. 8.2, pp. 181-204.

1976        "Interplay of vocalic segments and tones in the Yueh dialects," Papers for the First Japan-U.S. Seminar on East and Southeast Asian Linguistics (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science), pp. 47-59.                        

1976        (In Japanese) "Kodai chuugokugo tooshion no on'in tairitsu 古代中國語頭子音の 音韻對立 (Phonological distinctions among Old Chinese initials), "Bulletin of the Chinese Language Society of Japan, No. 223, pp. 2-5.     

1976        "Southern Chinese dialects--the Tai connection," Computational Analysis of Asian and African Languages, Tokyo, No. 6, pp. 1-9.

1972        "Two features of Proto-Yueh initials," Unicorn No. 9, Chinese Linguistics Project and Seminar, Princeton University, pp. 20-40.

1971        "Descriptive adverbials and the passive construction in Chinese," Unicorn, No. 7, Chinese Linguistics Project and Seminar, Princeton University, pp. 84-93; also in Readings in Chinese Transformational Syntax (Taipei: The Crane Publishing Co., Shou-Hsin Teng ed.), pp. 1-7.

1971        "A note on D. Jones and K.T. Woo's A Cantonese Phonetic Reader," Study of Sounds (Tokyo), No. 15, pp. 79-94.

1970        "The Liang-Yue dialect materials," Unicorn, No. 6, Chinese Linguistics Project and Seminar, Princeton University, pp. 35-51.

1969        "The imperative in Chinese," Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan, No. 56, pp. 35-62; also in Readings in Chinese Transformational Syntax (Taipei: The Crane Publishing Co., Shou-Hsin Teng ed.), pp. 445-469.

1969        "The verb 'To Be' in modern Chinese," Foundation of Language Supplementary Series Vol. 9: The Verb "Be" and Its Synonyms, Pt. 4, pp. 72-111.

1968        (with M. J. Hashimoto) "Phonological redundancy and Cantonese vowels," Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan, No. 53, pp. 101-111.

1967        (In Chinese) "Hanyu li mingcihua de jiegou 漢語裡名詞化的結構 (Nominalized constructions in Chinese)," Bulletin of the Chinese Language Society of Japan, No. 148, pp. 10-17.

1965        "A condensed account of syntactic analysis of Mandarin," Project on Linguistic Analysis Report No. 10, Ohio State University Research Foundation, pp. 1-27.

1964        "Resultative verbs and other problems," Project on Linguistic Analysis Report No. 8, Ohio State University Research Foundation, pp. 39-47.

 

Links

http://faculty.washington.edu/anneyue/

http://cantonese.hku.hk/