Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics (WICL)
March 16-17, 2012
The Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics (WICL) is a 1-1/2 day event that is taking place on 16-17 March 2012 on The Ohio State University campus in Columbus, Ohio. This workshop aims to explore the different innovations in studying variations in the Yue (粵 ‘Cantonese (broadly construed)’) group of the Chinese language. Cantonese linguistics workshops and conferences are generally held in mainland China, Macao and Hong Kong.
The Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics is, to the best of our knowledge, the first North America event to be held solely for scholarly exchanges on research on Cantonese linguistics. We are doubly gratified that colleagues in North America as well as abroad have joined us at this workshop, and in a few cases, even via Skype, as we explore and harness current technological breakthroughs for exchange of ideas.
We have put together what we hope is an exciting and informative program, with opportunities to talk among presenters and attendees. Through the generosity of our sponsors, we are able to host this event with free registration and open to The Ohio State University community and the general public. We have three keynote speakers, two from the U.S. and one from Hong Kong. They are:
Professor Anne Oi-Kan Yue 余靄芹 (University of Washington)
Professor Alan C. L. Yu 余梓麟 (University of Chicago)
Professor Benjamin Ka-Yin T’sou 鄒嘉彥 (Hong Kong Institute of Education;
Professor Emeritus, City University of Hong Kong)
Presenters at WICL come from three continents (North America, Europe and Asia), and five countries/regions (U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, and Hong Kong). The presenters include both faculty members and graduate students. And among the graduate student presenters are current OSU graduate students as well as OSU alumni who either are on tenure-track (or about to be on tenure-track), or already tenured at other institutions, both domestic and abroad. In fact, Professor Anne Yue (a.k.a. Anne Hashimoto), for example, is an early alumna of Ohio State, with the distinction of being the second recipient of a Ph.D. degree from the Department of Linguistics. We are thrilled to be able to welcome Professor Yue back to her alma mater in the Buckeye State!
For further information, please visit the WICL website (ling.osu.edu/wicl). Available there is the call for papers, information on accommodations, the WICL Program (pdf), etc. The program schedule is also archived here (pdf). The WICL event is featured at the DEALL website.
WICL Organizing Committee
Tsz-Him Tsui, Co-chair (Graduate student, Department of Linguistics)
Professor Marjorie K.M. Chan, Co-chair (DEALL faculty & Director, Institute for Chinese Studies)
Yutian Tan, member (Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures)
Litong Chen, member (Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures)
Professor Zhiguo Xie (Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures)
Jeffrey P. Chan, Assistant Director (Institute for Chinese Studies)
Sponsors:
Institute for Chinese Studies
Graduate Association of Chinese Linguistics
Co-Sponsors at The Ohio State University
Arts and Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences
Buckeye Language Network
College of Arts and Sciences Innovation grant for the Study of Language Variation (SoLV)
Council on Student Affairs
Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
Department of Linguistics
East Asian Studies Center
U.S. Department of Education Title VI Grant
2013 Announcement: WICL events will be hosted biennially. The 2nd Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics (WICL 2) will take place on 7 March 2014, to be hosted by the University of Chiago. Call for papers (abstract deadline: 15 December 2013) and other information are posted at the WICL 2 website. As WICL 2 is hosted in conjunction with the 2nd East Asian Psycholinguistics Colloquium (EAPC2), the organizers of these two events, namely, Professors Alan Yu and Ming Xiang, encourage participants to attend both events.
Note: The Ohio State University also hosted the inaugural East Asian Psycholinguistics Colloquium.
