座談日期：2014/11/15 星期六
座談地點：國立臺灣師範大學國際會議廳(綜合大樓509) 
主辦單位：台灣語言學學會、科技部語言學門

We're pleased to announce that our Scholarly Dialogue in Linguistics (3) will feature a meeting with the author of Chinese Grammar at Work, Prof. Shuanfan Huang, to be held in our general assembly on Nov. 15 at National Taiwan Normal University. In addition to the author, several discussants are invited to discuss different chapters in the book. All are welcome. 

Chinese Grammar at Work
Shuanfan Huang
National Taiwan University and Yuan Ze University, Taiwan

Chinese Grammar at Work adopts a cognitive-functional approach and uses a corpus-based methodology to examine how Chinese syntax emerges from natural discourse context and what the evolving grammar at work looks like. In this volume the author weaves together an array of fresh perspectives on clause structure, constructions, interactional linguistics, cognitive science and complex dynamic systems to construct a grammar of spoken Chinese. The volume contains discussions of a large number of topics: contiguity relation, the roles of repair strategies in the shaping of constituent structure, non-canonical word order constructions, pragmatics of referring expressions, classifier constructions, noun-modifying constructions, verb complementation, ethnotheory of the person and constructions specific to the language of emotion, sequential sensitivity of linguistic materials, meaning potential in interaction, the nature of variability and stability in Chinese syntax from the perspective of complexity theory. The result is a volume that highlights the connections between language structure, situated and embodied nature of cognition and language use, and affords a true entrée to the exciting realm of Chinese grammar