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perspective. June 26. 台大。
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-----. 1994d. On the analysis of discourse markers—A methodolocial
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on the Teaching and Learning of Chinese. Taipei.
-----.1995a. Emergent lexical semantics. Paper presented at the
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grammatical category. Paper presented at the Eighth North American
Conference on Chinese Linguistics, May 17-19. Urbana, Illionois.
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Fifth International Conference on Chinese Linguistics, June 27-29.
Hsinchu, Taiwan.
-----. 1996c. Form and function in discourse and syntax. Paper
presented at the Fifth International Symposium on Chinese Languages
and Linguistics, Dec.27-28. Mucha, Taipei.
-----. 1997a. "The discourse basis of Chinese syntax."
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Linguistics, May 4-6. Victoria, Canada.
-----. 1997b. "Declarative questions and sequentially sensitive
grammars." Paper presented at the First Symposium on Discourse
and Syntax in Chinese and Austronesian Languages, June 14-15.
Taipei, Taiwan.
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presented at the First Symposium on Discourse and Syntax in Chinese
and Austronesian Languages, June 14-15. Taipei, Taiwan.
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22, 1997. Chung Cheng University. Also at the Fifth International
Symposium on the Teaching and Learning of the Chinese Language,
Dec. 27-30, 1997. Taipei.
-----. 1998a. “The story of heads and tails—on a sequentially
sensitive lexicon”. Paper presented at the Sixth International
Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics, July 16-18. Academia
Sinica.
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preposition”. Paper presented at the Conference of Ireland Cognitive
Science Society. August 16-18, Dublin. Ireland.
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at the 6th International Conference on Cognitive Linguistics,
July 10-17. Stockholm, Sweden.
-----. 2000a. “The pragmatics of focus in Tsou and Seediq”. Paper
presented at the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal
Linguistics Association. Free University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands,
May 11-13, 2000.
-----. 2000b. Language in the wild: Grammar and distributed cognition.
Panel paper presented at IsCLL-7, Chung-Cheng University, Dec.
22-24, 2000.
-----. 2001. Two different ways to travel. Paper presented at
the Association of Linguistic Typology IV Conference, July 18-21,
Santa Barbara, California
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Saisiyat. IACL 11, August 19-22, Aichi, Japan.
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marking system of Saisityat. Paper presented at 2004 Annual Conference
of American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL 2004), May
1-4. Portland, Oregon.
-----. 2004b. Emotion and affect in Formosan languages. Paper
presented at Syntax of the World’s languages, August 5-9. Leipzig,
Germany.
-----. 2004c. Split O in Formosan languages---- A localist interpretation.
Paper presented at IsCLL-9. Nov. 19-21. 台大。
-----. 2004d ( with Fu-hui Hsieh) Grammar, construction and social
action in Mandarin conversation. Paper presented at IsCLL-9. Nov.
19-21. Taida.
-----. 2006a. (with Huei-ju Huang) Verb types, lexical semantics
and Split O in Tsou. Paper presented at International Conference
on Austronesian Linguistics 10, January 17-20. Palauan, Philippines.
-----. 2006b. (with Yu-ting Yeh) Transitivity and ergativity in
Squliq Atayal. Paper presetned at ICAL 10, January 17-20. Paluan,
Phillipines.
-----. 2006c. Transitivity as an emergent category in Formosan
languages. Paper presented at the Oxford-Kobe Seminar on the Linguistics
of the Endangered Languages, April 2-5. Kobe, Japan.
-----. 2006d. Transitivity as an emergent category in Formosna
langauges. Paper presented at IsCLL 10 and ICAL 14, May 25-28. Academia
Sinica.