Karen Steffen Chung
National Taiwan University
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Taipei, Taiwan
Short curriculum
vitae
Longer curriculum
vitae with links
Personal links
Publications
CET articles on English learning problems
of Taiwan learners
PhD dissertation and book:
Mandarin Compound Verbs 漢語複合動詞. Leiden
University,
Department of Descriptive and Comparative Linguistics,
Leiden,
The Netherlands; advisor: Prof. F.H.H. Kortlandt. September
2004.
Taiwan
Journal of Linguistics : Book Series in Chinese
Linguistics No. 1.
(In English) Taipei: Crane's, February 2006. (252pp+xxxvi)
National Taiwan University 2007 Excellent Scholarly
Book Award
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Book chapters, papers, and
conference presentations:
Chapter
9: "Teaching
Pronunciation to Adult Learners of English"
of
Asian English Language
Classrooms: Where Theory and Practice Meet.
Handoyo Puji Widodo, Alistair Wood, Deepti Gupta, eds.
London & New York: Routledge, 2017. p. 131-149.
Chapter 42: "Wade-Giles
Romanization System," of The Routledge Encyclopedia
of the Chinese Language. Chan
Sin-wai, ed. London & New York: Routledge,
2016. p. 756-776.
Chapter 34: "Sino-Tibetan:
Chinese," of The Oxford Handbook
of Derivational Morphology. Rochelle
Lieber and Pavol Stekauer, ed.
Oxford: Oxford University Press USA, 2014. p. 609-620.
Chapter 10: "East Asian
linguistics," of The Oxford Handbook
of the History of Linguistics. Keith
Allan, ed. New York:
Oxford University Press USA, 2013. p. 209-221.
Received NTU Excellent book chapter award in 2014.
"Syllable
and word linking in Taiwan English (ppt) (pdf)."
Presentation
at the Satellite Workshop: Coarticulation in New Varieties of English,
of The
17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS
XVII),
at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, August 16, 2011.
"Putting Blends in their
Place." Presentation at the
Universals and Typology in Word-Formation
Conference,
organised by the Department of British and American
Studies, Faculty of Arts,
P. J.
Šafárik University in Košice and the Slovak
Association
for the Study of English. Košice, Slovakia, August 16-18, 2009.
"Hypercorrection in Taiwan Mandarin."
Journal of Asian Pacific Communication
abstract,
Zhou, Minglang (ed.),
Language Planning and Varieties of (Modern
Standard) Chinese:
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 16:2
(2006).
2006. ca. 160 pp. (pp. 197–214). Paper originally presented at
The Ninth International Conference on
Chinese Linguistics,
held at the York Hotel, sponsored by National University of
Singapore, Singapore, June 26-28, 2000.
"Contraction and Backgrounding in
Taiwan Mandarin."
Concentric: Studies in Linguistics,
Vol. 32, No. 1, January 2006.
(pp. 69-88) Paper originally presented at IACL/NACCL conference
at the University of California, Irvine, June 22-24,
2001.
"Living (happily)
with contradiction."
Table
of contents
Evidence and Counter-Evidence : Essays in honor of
Frederik Kortlandt : Studies in Slavic and General
Linguistics
(SSGL 32), vol. 2: General Linguistics. Ed. by Alexander
Lubostskoy, Jos Schaeken & Jeroen Wiedenhof.
Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2008. pp. 93-100.
"Some
Returned Loans: Japanese Loanwords in Taiwan
Mandarin." pp. 161-179 in Language Change in East Asia.
McAuley, T.E., ed. 2001. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon. Paper
originally presented at the Workshop on Language Change in
Japan
and East Asia Sheffield University, Sheffield, UK. May
21-22, 1999 (.pdf)
"Verb +
Noun Function-Describing Compounds." Bulletin
of
the College of Liberal Arts, National Taiwan
University, No. 41,
June 1994, pp. 181-221. (.pdf)
National Science Council-funded
research projects:
Book writing project:
"A Treasury of Taiwan English"
台式英語寶典
August 1, 2012-July 31, 2013.
Review of: Shi, Yuzhi. The establishment of modern Chinese
grammar:
The formation of the resultative construction and Its
effects.
John Benjamins, 2002. Studies in Language Companion Series
59;
posted over LINGUIST e-mail discussion list, Feb. 16, 2003.
Issue: 14.458.
Review of: Lecumberri, M. Luisa Garcia and John A.
Maidment.
English
transcription course. Oxford: Oxford
University Press,
2000; Notes on Linguistics 4
(2001): 124-126. (.pdf)
Review of: Jerome L. Packard. The morphology of Chinese:
A linguistic and cognitive approach.
Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2000; posted over LINGUIST e-mail
discussion list, March 26, 2001. Issue: 12.844.
Review of: Watt, David L.E. The phonology and semology of
intonation in English: An instrumental and systemic
perspective.
Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club
Publications, 1994;
posted over LINGUIST e-mail discussion list, June 8, 1998.
Issue: 9.847.
Review of: Taylor, Paul Alexander. A phonetic model of intonation
in English. Bloomington: Indiana
University Linguistics Club, 1994;
posted over LINGUIST e-mail discussion list, Oct. 18, 1997.
Issue: 8.1499.
Review of: Giulio Lepschy, ed. History
of linguistics; vol. 1:
The Eastern traditions of linguistics.
London & New York: Longman,
1994; Historiographia Linguistica, vol. XXII, No. 3,
1995. p. 401-409. (.pdf)
Review of: de Saussure, Ferdinand. Saussure's Third Course of
Lectures on General Linguistics (1910-1911),
ed. and transl. by
Eisuke Komatsu & Roy Harris. Oxford & New York:
Pergamon Press,
1993; Historiographia Linguistica,
vol. XXI, No. 3, 1994. p.448-451.
(Originally also posted over LINGUIST e-mail discussion
list,
May 4, 1994, Issue: 5.518.)
Book notices:
Book notice on: Kunter, Gero. Compound
stress in English:
The phonetics and phonology of prosodic prominence.
(Linguistische arbeiten 539.) Berlin: Walter de
Gruyter. Pp. xii, 225.
eLanguage,
digital publishing platform of the Linguistic Society
of America (LSA). Posted December 13th, 2011.
Book notice on: Acquaviva, Paolo. Lexical plurals:
A Morphosemantic Approach. Oxford
Studies in
Theoretical Linguistics, vol. 20. Oxford: Oxford University
Press. 2008. pp. xii, 295. eLanguage,
digital publishing
platform of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA).
Posted April 18th, 2011.
Book notice on: Makharoblidze, Tamar. Basic Georgian.
LINCOM Practical Language Courses 01 Munchen: LINCOM
Europa, 2008. pp. 204. eLanguage, digital publishing
platform of
the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). Posted
April 10th, 2011.
Book notice on: Hamawand, Zeki. The Semantics of
English Negative Prefixes. London &
Dakville: Equinox,
2009. Pp. xii, 179. eLanguage, digital publishing
platform of the
Linguistic Society of America (LSA). Posted March
24th, 2011.
Book notice on: Plümacher, Martina & Peter Holz,
eds.
Speaking of Colors and Odors.
Converging Evidence
in Language and Communication Research, Vol. 8.
Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2007. pp. vi,
244.
eLanguage,
digital publishing platform of the Linguistic Society of
America
(LSA). Posted November 2nd, 2010.
Book notice on: Weber, David John. Writing Quechua: The Case
for a Hispanic Orthography. UCLA Latin
American Studies, Vol. 87.
Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications: 2005.
pp. xii, 164.
eLanguage,
digital publishing platform of the Linguistic Society of
America
(LSA). Posted November 3rd, 2010.
Book notice on: Benczes, Réka. Creative compounding in English:
The semantics of metaphorical and metonymical
noun-noun
combinations. Amsterdam: John Benjamins,
2006. Pp. xvi, 206.
eLanguage,
digital publishing platform of the Linguistic Society of
America
(LSA). Posted May 18th, 2010. (.pdf)
Book notice on: Wenszky, Nora. Secondary
stress in English words.
Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 2004. Pp. 248. eLanguage,
digital publishing
platform of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). Posted
April 20th, 2009.
Book notice on: "Writing Panare – Portrait
of a Linguist on Fieldwork"
(video). Camera/sound/direction by Paul Henley. Granada
Centre for
Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester. 1996. 29
minutes.
Language (Journal of the Linguistic Society of America)
82.1 (2006). p. 199.
Book notice on: Reetz, Henning. Artikulatorische
und akustische Phonetik.
Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1999. Pp. 200.
Paper.
Language (Journal of the Linguistic Society of America)
81.3, (2005). p. 785.
Book notice on: Neufeld, Eldo. A
dictionary of Plautdietsch rhyming words.
(LINCOM Studies in Germanic Linguistics 15). Munich: Lincom
Europa,
2002. Pp. vi, 67. Language (Journal of the Linguistic
Society of America)
81.1, (2005). p. 284.
Book notice on: Gao, Hong. The
physical foundation of the patterning
of physical action Verbs : A study of Chinese verbs.
Travaux de l'institut
de linguistique de Lund XLI. Lund: Lund University, 2001.
Pp. 265, xiv.
Language (Journal of the Linguistic Society of America)
79.4, (2003). p. 800-801.
Book notice on: Cohen, Ariel. Think
generic! The meaning and use
of generic statements. Stanford: CSLI
Publications, Center for the
Study of Language and Information, 1999. pp.xiii, 208.
Language
(Journal of the Linguistic Society of America) 78.1,
(2002). p. 203.
Book notice on: Chen, Ping. Modern
Chinese: History and sociolinguistics.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. pp. xiv, 229. Language
(Journal
of the Linguistic Society of America) 78.1 (2002). p.
203-204.
Book notice on: Brinton, Laurel J., & Minoji
Akimoto, ed. Collocational and
idiomatic aspects of composite predicates in the
history of English.
Studies in Language Companion Series. Amsterdam &
Philadelphia:
John Benjamins, 1999. pp.xii, 283. Language (Journal of
the Linguistic
Society of America) 78.1 (2002). p. 204-205.
Book notice on: Ning Yu. The
contemporary theory of metaphor:
A perspective from Chinese. Amsterdam
& Philadelphia: John Benjamins,
1998. Pp. vii, 278. Language (Journal of the Linguistic
Society of America),
76.1 (2000) p. 231.
Book notice on: Kageyama, Taro, ed. Verb
semantics and syntactic structure.
Tokyo: Kurosio Publishers, 1997. Language (Journal of
the Linguistic Society
of America) 75.1 (1999), p. 193-194.
Book notice on: ABC
(Alphabetically-based computerized)
Chinese-English dictionary. John
DeFrancis, comp. Honolulu:
University of Hawaii Press, 1996. Language (Journal of
the Linguistic
Society of America), 74.3 (1998), p. 660-661.
Book notice on: Ladefoged, Peter. 1996. Elements
of acoustic phonetics.
2nd ed. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press,
1996. Language
(Journal of the Linguistic Society of America), 74.3
(1998), p. 661.
Book notice on: Sun, Chaofen. 1996. Word-order
change and
grammaticalization in the history of Chinese.
Stanford: Stanford
University Press. Language (Journal of the Linguistic
Society of
America), 74.1 (1998), p. 237.
Book notice on: Chang Chung-ho & Hans Frankel,
intro., transl., annot.
Two Chinese treatises on calligraphy. New
Haven & London: Yale
University Press, 1995. Language (Journal of the
Linguistic Society of
America) 73.2 (1997) p. 437-438.
Book reviews for Amazon
Translations:
Have translated numerous children's books
into English from Chinese, German and Spanish
for Heryin 和英 and Chung-tang
暢談 publishers
"Spring Rain", by Cheng Ch'ing-wen. in:
Voices from the Beautiful Island:
Bilingual Taiwan Masterworks
島嶼雙聲：臺灣文學名作 中英對照. 邱子修 Tzuhsiu Beryl Chiu, ed.
Taipei: Bookman, 2008. 281pp, with interactive DVD.
(Also collected in The Three-Legged Horse
(short stories by
Cheng Ch'ing-wen). New York: Columbia University Press,
1998.
Pp. 240; and in the Chinese-English bilingual short story
and essay
collection: Taiwan Literature in Chinese and
English.
Chi, Pang-yuan, ed. Taipei: CommonWealth Publishers,
1999.)
Chinese-to-English translation of
libretto for the modern Peking opera,
The Kingdom of Desire,
adapted from Shakespeare's Macbeth,
by Lee, Huey Ming. Contemporary Legend Theatre, 1986.
Chinese-to-English translations for The Chinese PEN:
September 25,
2007, No. 141, vol. 35,
No. 3
Short story: "The Story of Beggar's
Cottage"
by Ah Sheng
Poem: "Return to Angkor"
by Hsu
Hui-chih
Poem: "Neon Lights"
by
Chen Yu-hong
June 25, 2007, No. 140, vol. 35, No. 2
Poem: "To express it in a
different way"
by Chen
Yu-hong
March 25, 2007, No. 139, vol. 35, no. 1
Poems: "The
orchid cactus looks out at the sea"
2
"I
told you before" 2
by Chen Yu-hong, p. 66-69.
June 25, 1999, No. 108, vol. 27, no. 2
"My
Heart Soars: A Factory Girl's Story",
by Hu Tai-li, p. 17-37.
March 25, 1999, No. 107, vol. 27, no. 1
"The Former and Present
Lives of Cobblestones –
Notes on Visits to the Huatung Rift Valley",
by Wang Wen-chin, p. 1-4.
"Bedtime Reminder", by Lu Chao Yu, p.
65-68.
June 25, 1998, No. 104, vol. 26, no. 2
"Homer in the Eye of the
Storm", by
Teresa Buczacki, p. 29-33.
"Insights from 'A Patch of Sunlight'",
by Teresa Buczacki, p. 34-41.
Dec. 25, 1997, No. 102, vol. 25, no. 4
"The
Russian Doll", by Chang Chi-jiang, p. 67-88.
June 25, 1997, No.
100 Anniversary issue, vol. 25, no. 2
"Calendars and Pocket Watches:
Christmas Gifts of Love", by Kao Ta-peng, p. 104-114.
"The Man
Who Lost His Voice", by Chang Chi-jiang, p. 96-103;
reprinted in An Anthology of Contemporary
Chinese Literature,
Vol. 3, Essays. Chi, Pang-yuan, ed.
Taipei: National Bureau of
Compilation and Translation. 2004.
March 25, 1997, No. 99, vol. 25, no. 1
"Fertile Fields", by Wu Ming, p. 20-35.
"Mulberry Trees", by Wu Ming, p. 36-52.
Dec. 25, 1996, No. 98, vol. 24, no. 4
Two Essays by Wang Ting-chun, p. 1-11:
"Old is Beautiful", p. 1-6.
"Heaven", p. 7-11.
June 25, 1996, No. 96, vol. 24, no.
2
"Hair", by Cheng Ch'ing-wen, p. 55-73; also
collected in
The Three-Legged Horse (short stories
by Cheng Ch'ing-wen).
New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Pp. 240.
March 25, 1996, No. 98,
vol. 24, no. 1
"The Thousand Mile Mountain Path
–
A Spring Visit to the Recluse of the Plantains"
by Chen Hsing-hui, p. 1-13.
Three essays by Ai Ya:
"Of Tears and
Lachrymatories", p. 14-16.
"Song", p. 16-17.
"The Poet Named Chou Mengtieh", p. 17.20;
reprinted in
An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Literature,
Vol. 3, Essays. Chi, Pang-yuan, ed. Taipei:
National Bureau of
Compilation and Translation. 2004.
Sept. 25,
1995, No. 93, vol. 23, no. 3
(One of) Two essays by Chen Hsing-hui:
"Rain Falls on All the Car Roofs of the World", p.
2-4
Poems by Chang Hsiang-hua, "Ball-point Pen", "Poem
on Marriage",
"Silver Bird", "Tea Does Not Speak – for Petar",
p. 76-78.
"Spring Rain", by Cheng Ch'ing-wen. p. 39-56; also
collected in
The Three-Legged Horse (short stories by
Cheng Ch'ing-wen).
New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Pp. 240; and in
the
Chinese-English bilingual short story and essay collection:
Taiwan Literature in Chinese and English.
Chi, Pang-yuan, ed. Taipei: CommonWealth Publishers, 1999.
Chinese-to-English translations
of poetry by Shiang-hua Chang:
(1) Affection is Everywhere, 1994; (2)
Waiting for Snow, Taoran Press,
1994.
Chinese-to-English cookbook
translations for Wei-Chuan Publishing:
(1) Chinese One Dish Meals, 1987; (2)
Vegetarian Cooking, 1988;
(3) Microwave Cooking: Chinese Style,
I988; (4) Microwave Cooking:
Chinese Style II, 1989; (5) Japanese Cuisine, 1989; (6) Chinese Dim Sum, 1990.
English-to-Chinese translation of comics for the
China
Post,
in cooperation with Chung, Hwa, 1987-1988.
Articles translated for the
Free China Review, later renamed the Taiwan Review:
Book Review: "From Page To Screen" by Wong
Kin-Yip, translated by Karen S. Chung.
Publication Date: 02/01/1992.
"Limited Resources, Rising Costs"
By Chiang Tung-liang, translated by Karen S. Chung.
Publication Date: G05/01/1990.
"Progress With Measured Steps"
By Chung Huei-ming, translated by Karen S. Chung,
from Youth of Freedom magazine). Publication Date:
10/01/1988.
"Chinese Made Easier" by
Amory Y. M. Shih, translated by Karen Chung.
Publication Date: 09/01/1988.
Articles written for the Free
China Review, later renamed the Taiwan Review:
"Don't Touch
That Knob!" by Karen S. Chung.
Publication Date: 08/01/1990. Vol. 40, no. 8, pp. 30-35.
"A Mickey Mouse
Business" by Karen S. Chung.
Publication Date: 08/01/1990. Vol. 40, no. 8.
German
version.
"Separations and
Reunions" by Karen S. Chung. Publication Date:
01/01/1991. Vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 34-37.
Articles translated for Sinorama:
"The Taipei Tree Frog", July 1987, vol. 12, no. 7, p. 72-74.
"The National Institute of the Arts", June 1987, vol. 12,
no. 6, p. 34-43.
"One Hundred Years of Working on Taiwan's Railroad", June
1987, vol. 12, no. 6, p. 116-123.
"Matchmaking for Fine Food", April 1987, vol. 12, no. 4, p.
27-35.
Chinese nursery rhymes translated for Sinorama:
"A Shuttlecock Rhyme". July 1987, vol. 12, no. 7, p. 33.
"The Sheperdess", May 1987, vol. 12, no. 5, p. 53.
"The Rainbow". April 1987, vol. 12, no. 4, p. 97.
"The Little Water Buffalo". Sept. 1987, vol 12, no. 9,
p. 20.
"Riding a Bamboo Horse", June 1987, vol. 12, no. 6, p. 31.
Recipes translated for Sinorama:
"Fresh Bamboo Shoots and Greens", July 1987, vol. 12, no. 7,
p. 124.
"Carrot and White Radish Julienne", Sept. 1987, vol 12, no.
9, p. 113.
"Oxtail in Brown Sauce", Feb. 1987, vo. 12, no. 2, p. 115.
"Duck with Mushrooms and Preserved Cabbage", April 1987,
vol. 12, no. 4, p. 112.
"Duck Strips with Celery", June 1987, vol. 12, no. 6, p. 92.
"Pork and Rice Dumplings, Huchow Style";
"Red Bean Paste Dumplings, Huchow Style" May 1987, vol. 12,
no. 5, p. 118-119.
Miscellaneous writing:
Founded, served as editor-in-chief of The Foreign Exchange,
English newsletter of the Department of Foreign
Languages
and Literatures, National Taiwan University.
September 1995-June 1997.
Ling Yu. A Family in Taiwan.
Photos by Chen Ming-Jeng. Minneapolis:
Lerner Publications, 1990. 31p. ages 4-8. Ghostwrote this
book for author.
"Language", Chapter 4, Republic of China Yearbook.
1989, p 34-47.
Taipei: Kwang Hwa, 1989.
Also served as managing editor of the ROC Yearbook,
translated speeches for the ROC president.
"Ritzen bridging cultures, East and West: Review of
Belgian pianist's concert shows".
(review of Peter Ritzen's 9/21/92 piano/choral concert) The China Post,
September 24, 1992.
"Zither
Master Visits Taiwan". (Interview of guzheng
master Zhang Yan), Free China
Journal,
February 26, 1990, p. 6.
"Chang Yen's cheng concert: A rich celebration of music
that gives more than asked for".
China News, May 1, 1990.
"Spreading The 'Taiwanese' Word; Two New
Language Books Sign Of Changing TImes".
Free China
Journal, July 26, 1990.
"Shotgun Progress". (editorial on first heart
transplant in ROC) The China Post,
August 20, 1987, p. 4.
"Welcoming Our Sons-in-Law". (editorial on legal
rights of foreign sons-in-law in Taiwan)
The
China Post, July 10, 1987.