Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
Research Fields:
Syntax
Formosan languages
Formosan corpus and its applications
typology
Research Experience:
2016-present Director, Language Center, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.
2016-2016 Director, Indigenous Languages Research and Development Center (ILRDC), Council of Indigenous Peoples, Taiwan.
2012-2015 Director, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.
1994-present Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.
1991-2008 Associate Professor, Dept of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.
2005 Adjunt Faculty, Department of English, Tamkang University.
1992-1994 Adjunt Faculty, Department of English, Tamkang University.
1992 Adjunt Faculty, Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University.
1990-1991 Adjunt Faculty, Department of English, Tamkang University.
Awards:
2015 NTU Excellence in Teaching Award, National Taiwan University
2011 NTU Excellence in Teaching Award, National Taiwan University.
2011 NTU Excellent Research Award, National Taiwan University
2009 NTU Excellence in Teaching Award, National Taiwan University
2007 NTU Excellence in Teaching Award, National Taiwan University
2007 NTU Excellent Research Award, National Taiwan University
2006 NTU Excellence in Teaching Award, National Taiwan University
2003 Collegiate Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Liberal Arts, National Taiwan University
2000 NSC Grant for research abroad, National Science Council
2000 Fulbright Scholar Program, Research Grant, Council for International Exchange of Scholars
1995 NSC Excellent Research Award, National Science Council
1993 NSC Excellent Research Award, National Science Council
Teaching:
Freshman English
Introduction to Linguistics
Linguistics
Online English Program
Seminar in Syntax
Independent Study in Syntax
Comparison and Language Typology
Seminar in Typology
Linguistic Fieldwork
Research Methodologies
Introduction to Austronesian Linguistics
Topics in Austronesian Syntax On Syntactic Structure of Some Formosan Austronesian Languages
Research Grants
2016 PI, Indigenous Languages Research and Development Center, Council of Indigenous Peoples.
2012 co-PI, The Survey on the Language Materials of Indigenous Peoples in Taiwan, Council of Indigenous Peoples, Executive Yuan, Taiwan. (PI: Taiwan Society for Pacific Studies)
2011-2015 PI, Formation and Fluidity of the Island World, National Taiwan University.
2011-2014 PI, A Typological Study of Aurtronesian Languages in Taiwan and their Revitalization: Seediq and Sakizaya, National Science Council.
2009-2011 PI, Revitalization of FormosanLanguages: Compilation of Seediq Dictionary, Council of Indigenous Peoples, Executive Yuan, Taiwan.
2009-2010 PI, An Investigation of Sakizaya Syntax, National Science Council.
2006-2010 PI, Construction of NTU Corpus of Formosan Languages, Center for Information and Electronics Technologies, National Taiwan University, and Center for Humanities Research, National Science Council.
2007-2008 PI, Comparative Constructions in Formosan Languages, Center for Austronesian Studies, National Taiwan University.
2004-2007 PI, An Investigation of Kavalan Syntax (I)(II)(III), National Science Council.
Publications
Referred Papers / Book Chapters
Sung, Li-May. 2015. Why exclamatives in Budai Rukai. In Elizabeth Zeitoun, Stacy F.Teng and Joy J. Wu (eds.), New Advances in Formosan Linguistics, 291-311, Studieson Austronesian Languages, Asia-Pacific Linguistics series. http://pacling.anu.edu.au/materials/SAL/SAL003.pdf
Sung, Li-May. 2011. Clausal nominalization in Budai Rukai. In Yap, Foong Ha,Karen Grunow-Hårsta & Janick Wrona (eds.), Nominalization in Asian Languages:Diachronic and Typological Perspectives, 523-559, Typological Studies in Language96. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. [AHCI]
Sung, Li-May. 2010. Expressing Comparatives in Formosan Languages: A Typological Perspective, Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, Vol. 10, 682-685, Kyoto University.
Kuo, Cheng-Chuen and Li-May Sung. 2010. On the Syntax of Amis Comparative Constructions, Concentric: Studies in Linguistics 36.1, 25-57.
Sung, Li-May, Lily I-wen Su, Fuhui Hsieh and Zhemin Lin. 2008. Developing an Online Corpus of Formosan Languages. Taiwan Journal of Linguistics 6.2, 79-118.
(http://tjl.nccu.edu.tw/volume6-2/index.htm)
Su, Lily I-wen, Li-May Sung, Shuping Huang, Fuhui Hsieh and Zhemin Lin. 2008. NTU Corpus of Formosan Languages: A State-of-the-art Report. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 4-2, 291-294.
Chen, S., Shen, W.-C., Sung, L-M. & Fon, J. 2008. How prosody correlates with syntax: An observation on Sakizaya, an endangered Formosan language. Oral presentation at 2nd ASA-EAA Joint Conference (Acoustics’08 Paris), June 29 – July 4, Paris, France. [Abstract]. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123 (5), Pt.2, 3461.
Huang, Shuping and Li-May Sung, 2008 June. The Undergoer Focus ma- in Kavalan, Oceanic Linguistics 47:1, 159-184.
Sung, Li-May and Cheng-chuen Kuo, 2008. A Descriptive Study of Comparative Constructions in Kavalan and Amis, SEALS XVI Papers from the 16th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 2006, edited by Paul Sidwell and Uri Tadmor. 109-119. Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Australia.
(http://www.pacling.com/catalogue/E6_SEALS.html)
Sung, Li-May, Li-hsin Sung and Yu-ting Yeh, 2006. The Existential Predicate yau in Kavalan, Proceedings of the 18th North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-18), edited by Janet Zhiqun Xing, 480-499, University of Southern California.
Sung, Li-May and Chia-chi Shen, 2006, Reciprocals in Kavalan and a Typological Comparison, in Streams Converging into an Ocean: Festschrift in Honor of Professor Paul Jen-kuei Li on His 70th Birthday, edited by Henry Y. Chang, Lillian M. Huang, and Dah-an Ho, 239-277, Language and Linguistics Monograph Series # W-5, Academia Sinica.
Conference Papers/Presentations
Sung, Li-May. 2015. On the development of an indigenous bilingual dictionary: the case of Seediq in Taiwan, presented at MAPLEX (Multiple Approaches X Multilingual Frame Semantics Wordnet Generative), February 9-10 2015, Yamagata, Japan.
Sung, Li-May. 2014. Developing from a quotative marker say to a discourse marker: a corpus-based study of Sakizaya, presented at the Conference of (Re)presenting the Speech of Others, March 13 -14, 2014, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
Sung, Li-May. 2013. NTU Corpus of Formosan Languages, presented at the Cross-Strait Conference on Training in Language Documentation and Conservation, July 20-21, Providence University. (In Chinese)
Sung, Li-May. 2013. The Linguistics Curriculum and Research at National Taiwan University, presented at the 2013 Applied Linguistics Conference, May 25, Chung Yuan Christian University. (In Chinese)
Sung, Li-May. 2012. Wh-exclamatives in Budai Rukai, presented at the First Workshop of A Typological Study of Austronesian Languages in Taiwan and their Revitalization, December 1-2, Academia Sinica.
宋麗梅、郭明正。2012。從族語資料庫看臺灣原住民族傳統知識文化:以賽德克語為例,原住民族數位典藏學術研討會,October 19 2012,National Taiwan University. (In Chinese)
Lin, Chih-kai and Li-May Sung. 2012. Ambiguous HAN in Sakizaya: An Optimality-theoretic account, presented at the Twelfth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (12ICAL), July 2-6, Bali, Indonesian.
Cheng, Hsiu-jung and Li-May Sung. 2012. Learning to encode motion events in Atayal: A case study of heritage language learning in an elementary school in Hsinchu, 2012年全國原住民族硏究入選論文集,國立嘉義大學台灣原住民族教育及產業發展中心。臺北市 : 行政院原住民族委員會。
Sung, Li-May, 2012, How flexible are lexical categories in Tgdaya Seediq?, presented at the Twelfth International Conference on Austronesian Conference (12ICAL), July 2-6, 2012, Bali, Indonesia.
Sung, Li-May, 2012, Grammar of Han ‘say; said’ in Sakizaya: a corpus-based perspective, presented at the First Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference, Feb 15-19, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Sung, Li-May, 2011, Exclamatives (and nominalization) in Seediq, presented at the Stance Marking Across Languages: Typological, Diachronic & Discourse Perspectives, July 18-20, 2011, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Sung, Li-May, 2011, How flexible are lexical categories in Tgdaya Seediq?, presented at the NTU Workshop on Formosan Languages, January 8, National Taiwan University.
Sung, Li-May, 2010, The Undergoer Voice han in Sakizaya, presented at the Workshop on Pragmatic Markers in Asian Languages, a pre-conference workshop of the 4th Conference on Language, Discourse and Cognition (CLDC 2010), April 30, National Taiwan University.
Li-May Sung, 2009, Expressing Comparatives in Formosan Languages: A Typological Perspective, presented at the annual meeting of Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, September 26-27, Kyoto University.
Shen, Wen-chi and Li-May Sung, 2009, A Corpus-based Study of Discourse Particles in Sakizaya, presented at the 11th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, June 22-26, Aussois, France.
Sung, Li-May, Lily I-wen Su, Fuhui Hsieh and Zhemin Lin, 2008, Developing an On-line Corpus of Formosan Languages, presented at the 7th Annual Wenshan International Symposium, May 19, National Chengchi University.
Sung, Li-May, 2008, Intransitivity in Kavalan, presented at the 18th International Congress of Linguists (CIL 18), July 21-26, Korea University, Seoul, Korea.
Sung, Li-May and Lihsin Sung, 2008, The Use of yau in Kavalan, presented at the New Reflections on Grammaticalization 4, 16-19 July, Leuven, Belgium.
Sung, Li-May and Cheng-chuen Kuo, 2007, Comparative Constructions in Amis, presented at the Third Conference on Austronesian Languages and Linguistics (ALL3), the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, England, 21-22 September 2007.
Sung, Li-May and Lihsin Sung, 2007, Comparative Constructions in Saisiyat, presented at the Third Conference on Austronesian Languages and Linguistics (ALL3), the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, England, 21-22 September 2007.
Sung, Li-May, Lihsin Sung and Yu-ting Yeh, 2006, The Existential Predicate yau in Kavalan, presented at the 10th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics, May 25-29, Academia Sinica.
Sung, Li-May and Cheng-chuen Kuo, 2006, Comparative Constructions in Amis, presented at 第6屆台灣語言及其教學國際學術研討會, May 20-21, 國立台北教育大學.
Sung, Li-May and Shuping Huang, 2006, Split Intransitivity in Kavalan, presented at the Thirteen Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA-13), March 24-26, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.
Sung, Li-May, 2006, Verbal Reflexives/Reciprocals in (Some) Formosan Languages, presented at the Tenth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (10-ICAL), Jan. 17-20, Palawan, Philippines.
(http://www.sil.org/asia/philippines/ical/papers.html)
Shuping Huang and Li-May Sung, 2006, The Undergoer Focus ma- in Kavalan, presented at the Tenth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (10-ICAL), Jan. 17-20, Palawan, Philippines.
(http://www.sil.org/asia/philippines/ical/papers.html)