LIN Jingxia/林静夏

 

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Assistant Professor

Associate Chair (Students), School of Humanities

Chinese
School of Humanities
College of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences

Email: JINGXIALIN@NTU.EDU.SG
Phone: (+65)67906718/69042073
Office: HSS-03-17/ HSS-03-84E

 

 

 

Academic Qualifications

2011    PhD (Chinese Linguistics), Stanford University, USA

2010    MSc (Statistics), Stanford University, USA

2006    MSc (Linguistics), University of Alberta, Canada

2004    BA (English Language and Literature), Zhejiang University, China

 

Summary of Working Experience

Jul 2017-present          Courtesy appointment with Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, NTU

Apr 2017-present        Associate Chair (Students), School of Humanities, NTU

Jan 2013-present         Assistant Professor, Chinese, NTU

Aug 2011-Dec 2012   Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

 

 

Key Areas of Research

Chinese linguistics

The syntax-semantics/pragmatics interface

Language variation and change (Global Chinese, Singapore Mandarin, Wenzhou Dialect studies)

 

 

Research funding

No.

Project Title

Funding Agency or source

 

Amount

 

Duration

 

PI/Co-PI/ Collaborator

(1)     

History of Overseas Grammar Studies and Database Construction 境外汉语语法学史及数据库建设

The National Social Sciences Fund of China (National Key Project)

CNY ¥800,000

2017.3-2021.12

Collaborator

(2)     

Comparable-corpus-based Study of Functional Words in Chinese Varieties 基于可比语料库的核心区华语虚词比较研究

the National Social Sciences Foundation of China

CNY ¥200,000

2016.6-2021.6

Co-PI

(3)

Grammatical Variations of World Chineses: Empirical Studies Based on Student Writings

Academic Research Fund Tier 1

SGD $97,700

2016.3-2019.2

PI

(4)

Encoding Emotion in Lexicon: An Investigation of Category and Intensity of Chinese Emotion Words in Bi(multi)-lingual Contexts

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Departmental General Research Funds

HKD

$200,000

 

 

2015.6 2017.3

Co-PI

 

(5)

Motion verbs and motion constructions in Chinese: Their lexical semantics and historical development

NTU start up grant

SGD

$35,000

2013.4-2016.3

PI

 

(6)

World Chineses and their grammatical variations: Empirical studies based on comparable corpora

Hong Kong General Research Fund

HKD $630,000

2013.1-2015.12

Co-PI

 

 

 

Research Honours and Awards

2013    Finalist (two in total) of The Young Scholar Award, Annual Meeting of the 21st International Association of Chinese Linguistics

2012    Best Paper Award of The 26th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation

 

Publications

Books and Edited Volumes

1.      Lin, Jingxia. Singapore Mandarin - Its Status and Structure as a Regional Language Variety (under contract with Springer, full manuscript to be submitted in 2019)

2.      Lin, Jingxia. In press. Encoding Motion Events in Mandarin Chinese. John Benjamins. Sample chapter + references

3.      Dong, Minghui, Jingxia Lin, and Xuri Tang (eds.). 2016. Chinese Lexical Semantics (Selected Papers from CLSW2016). Cham: Springer.

4.      Ng, Bee Chin and Jingxia Lin (eds.). 2016. Lingua Sinica: Special Issue on Language and Emotion in Chinese Languages.

 

Journal articles (Corresponding author underlined)

1.      Peck Jeeyoung, and Jingxia Lin. (accepted and to appear in 2019). Semantic constraint on preposition incorporation of postverbal locative PPs in Mandarin Chinese. Language and Linguistics. (pdf)

2.      Lin, Jingxia and Yong Kang Khoo. (accepted and to appear in 2018). Singapore Mandarin Chinese: Its variations and studies. Chinese Language and Discourse. (pdf)

3.      Lin, Jingxia and Yao Yao. 2016. Encoding emotion in Chinese: A database of Chinese emotion words with information of emotion type, intensity, and valence. Lingua Sinica, 2(6): 1-22. (pdf)

4.      Lin, Jingxia and Jeeyoung Peck. 2016. Classification of mandarin Chinese simple adjectives: A scale-based analysis of their quantitative denotations. Language and Linguistics 17(6): 827-855. (pdf)

5.      Lin, Jingxia. 2015. Encoding motion events in Chinese and the “Scalar Specificity Constraint”. Lingua Sinica, 1(4): 1-29. (pdf)

6.      Lin, Jingxia. 2013. Thing-place distinction and localizer distribution in Chinese directed motion construction. Linguistics 51(5): 855-891. (pdf)

7.      Peck, Jeeyoung, Jingxia Lin, and Chaofen Sun. 2013. Aspectual classification of Mandarin Chinese verbs: A perspective of scale structure. Language and Linguistics 14(4): 663-700. (pdf)

8.      Lin, Jingxia. 2013. 制约古代汉语地点介词/使用的几个因素: 递归分区统计分析法[Factors restricting the use of the locative preposition yu in Classical Chinese: A statistical model of recursive partitioning]. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Vol 40 (1): 1-20. (In Chinese) (pdf)

9.      Lin, Jingxia and Jeeyoung Peck. 2011. The syntax of multi-morpheme motion construction in Chinese: An analysis based on scale structure. Studies in Language, 35(2): 337-379. (pdf)

10.  Newman, John, Jingxia Lin, Terry Butler, and Eric Zhang. 2007. Wenzhou Spoken Corpus. Corpora, 2(1): 97-109. (pdf)

 

Book Chapters and Monograph Articles

1.      Lin, Jingxia, Dingxu Shi, Menghan, Jiang and Chu-Ren Huang. To appear in 2018. Variations in World Chineses. In Chu-Ren Huang, Zhuo Jing-Schmidt, and Barbara Meisterernst (eds.), Variations in World Chineses. In The Routledge Handbook of Applied Chinese Linguistics. Francis & Tyalor. (pdf)

2.      Peck, Jeeyoung, Jingxia Lin, and Chaofen Sun. 2016. A scalar analysis of Chinese incremental theme VPs. In Eom Ik-Sang and Weijia Zhang (Eds.), Language Evolution and Changes in Chinese, Journal of Chinese Linguistics monograph series 26, 216-246. (pdf)  

3.      Lin, Jingxia and Chaofen Sun. 2016. Preposition and preposition phrase. In Chu-Ren Huang and Dingxu Shi (eds.), A Reference Grammar of Chinese, 353-400. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

4.      Khoo, Yong Kang and Jingxia Lin. 2016. Motion constructions in Singapore Mandarin Chinese: A typological perspective. In Minghui Dong, Jingxia Lin and Xuri Tang (eds.), Chinese Lexical Semantics (CLSW 2016, Revised Selected Papers). Cham: Springer. 743-750. (pdf)

5.      Ng, Chin Loong, Jingxia Lin and Yao Yao. 2016. Polarity of Chinese emotion words: The construction of a polarity database based on Singapore Chinese Speakers. In Minghui Dong, Jingxia Lin and Xuri Tang (eds.), Chinese Lexical Semantics (CLSW 2016, Revised Selected Papers). Cham: Springer. 110-119. (pdf)

6.      Yuan, Xuelian and Jingxia Lin. 2016. Classifiers in Singapore Mandarin Chinese: A Corpus based Study. In Minghui Dong, Jingxia Lin and Xuri Tang (eds.), Chinese Lexical Semantics (CLSW 2016, Revised Selected Papers). Cham: Springer. 65-75. (pdf)

7.      Lin, Jingxia. 2015. Adverbial clauses. In James D. Wright (ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Vol 1, 185-188. Oxford: Elsevier. (pdf)

8.      Lin, Jingxia.  2015. The encoding of motion events in Chinese. In Shi Yuan William Wang and Chaofen Sun (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics, 322-335. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

9.      Lin, Jingxia and Yao Yao. 2014. Categorization and intensity of Chinese emotion. In  Xinchun Su and Tingting He (eds.), Chinese Lexical Semantics (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2014), 181-190. Heidelberg: Springer.  

10.  Huang, Chu-Ren and Jingxia Lin. 2013. The ordering of Mandarin Chinese light verbs. In Donghong Ji and Guozheng Xiao (eds.), Chinese Lexical Semantics, 728-735. Heidelberg: Springer.  

 

Conferences proceedings

1.      Yao, Yao, Jingxia Lin and Chu-Ren Huang. To appear. Lexicalized emotion? - Tonal patterns of emotion words in Chinese. The 25th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-25).

2.      Peck, Jeeyoung, Jingxia Lin, and Chaofen Sun. To appear. Re-examining aspectual classification of Chinese verbs. Proceedings of the 24th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-24). 

3.      Lin, Jingxia. 2016. What is possible in lexicalization of motion events? The case of Wenzhou Dialect. Proceedings of The 17th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop.

4.      Chu-Ren Huang, Jingxia Lin, Menghan Jiang and Hongzhi Xu. 2014. Corpus-based study and identification of Mandarin Chinese light verb variations. COLING Workshop on Applying NLP Tools to Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects, 1-10. (pdf)

5.      Lin, Jingxia, Hongzhi Xu, Menghan Jiang and Chu-Ren Huang. 2014.  Annotation and classification of light verbs and light verb variations in Mandarin Chinese. COLING Workshop on Lexical and Grammatical Resources for Language Processing, 75-82. (pdf)

6.      Neo, Chai Ling Valerie and Jingxia Lin. 2014. "Manner vs. path" revisited: A case study on the motion verb zhui in Modern Chinese. Proceedings of the 15th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop. 

7.      Lin, Jingxia. 2013. The figure’s final location must be identifiable: Localizer distribution in Chinese directed motion construction. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 242-256.

8.      Lin, Jingxia, Chu-Ren Huang, Huarui Zhang, and Hongzhi Xu. 2012. The headedness of Mandarin Chinese serial verb constructions: A corpus-Based study. Proceedings of PACLIC 2012: The 26th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, 428-435. (Best Paper Award) (pdf)

9.      Huang Chu-Ren, Jingxia Lin, and Huarui Zhang. 2012. World Chineses based on comparable corpus: The case of grammatical variations jinxing. 澳门语言文化研究 Macau Studies on Language and Culture, 397-414. (pdf)

10.  Lin, Jingxia. 2011. The Order of Mandarin Chinese Motion Morphemes and the “Scalar Specificity Constraint”. Proceedings of PACLIC 2011: The 25th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, 525-532.

11.  Lin, Jingxia and Chu-Ren Huang. 2011. The co-occurrence of two delimiters: An investigation of Mandarin Chinese resultatives. Proceedings of PACLIC2011: The 25th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, 519-524. (pdf)

12.  Lin, Jingxia. 2011. The order of motion morphemes in Chinese multi-morpheme motion construction: An analysis based on scale structure. In Proceedings of 12th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, 25-33. 

13.  Newman, John and Jingxia Lin. 2006. The purposefulness of going: A corpus-linguistic study. In Jacek Walinski, Krzysztof Kredens & Stanislaw Gozdz-Roszkowski, eds., Practical Applications in Language and Computers 2005 Proceedings, 293-308, Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang GmbH. (pdf)

 

Others

1.      [book review] Lin, Jingxia. 2016. Book review: New Perspectives of Chinese Syntax. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 44(2): 451-457. (pdf) 

2.      [PhD dissertation] Lin, Jingxia. 2011. The encoding of motion events in Chinese: Multi-morpheme motion constructions. Stanford: Stanford University.

3.      [database] Lin, Jingxia. 2016. Corpus of Spoken Singapore Chinese. A collection of transcribed and annotated Spoken Singapore Chinese (about 450,000 characters). The primary purpose of the corpus is for documenting and research on Singapore Mandarin Chinese. Currently it is also available to FYP/URECA students for research projects and students of HC2053 for class projects on Singapore Mandarin Chinese.

4.      [database] Lin, Jingxia and John Newman. 2006. Wenzhou Spoken Corpus. An online searchable corpus of transcribed and annotated Spoken Wenzhou dialect, Wu Chinese (about 150,000 words). The primary purpose of the corpus is for documenting and research on Wenzhou dialect. The corpus is available at http://ntuprojects.com/wenzhou/ or http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/wenzhou/

 

Invited Talks

1.      Lin, Jingxia and Yong Kang Khoo. 2018. Error or variation? An empirical study of student writings in different Mandarin Varieties. International Workshop on Practical Chinese Writing. University of Macau, Macau, July 31.

2.      Lin, Jingxia. 2017. Semantic constraints on the word order of Chinese location PPs. Xiamen University, China, November 29.

3.      Lin, Jingxia. 2016. The typology of lexicalization and the motion constructions in Wenzhou dialectSymposium on the Studies of Chinese Verbs. Stanford University, USA, April 23.

4.      Peck, Jeeyoung and Jingxia Lin. 2016. Semantic constraints on a verb-preposition incorporation and objecthood status of locative PPs in Mandarin Chinese. Symposium on the Studies of Chinese Verbs. Stanford University, USA, April 23.

5.      Lin, Jingxia. 2015. How emotional are you? A Survey of emotion category and intensity of Chinese emotion words. NTU Linguistics and Multilingual Studies TGIF Seminar Series. Singapore, May 22.

6.      Lin, Jingxia. 2015. What Does Lexical Semantics Tell us? Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China, May 14.

7.      Lin, Jingxia. 2012. Encoding Motion Events in Chinese. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, March 7.

 

Conference Presentations 

1.      Lin, Jingxia. 2018. Language contact and change in Singapore: A case study of speech act verbs in Singapore Mandarin Chinese. The 16th Annual Conference of the International Association of Urban Language Studies & The 7th Japan-China International Workshop: Language Policy and Language Inheritance in Modern China. Oita, Japan, September 11-13.

2.      Lin, Jingxia. 2018. Grammaticalization of shuo and jiang in Singapore Mandarin Chinese: A Spoken-Corpus-Based Study. The 19th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW2018). Chiayi, Taiwan, May 26-28. pdf

3.      Lin, Jingxia. 2018. Shuo as a complementizer in Singapore Mandarin Chinese. The joint meeting of the 26th Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-26) & the 20th International Conference on Chinese Language and Culture (ICCLC-20). Madison, USA, May 4-6.

4.      Chang, Tan Ling and Jingxia Lin. 2016. Bilinguals’ acquisition of Chinese relative clauses: An empirical study of Singapore English-Chinese bilinguals. The 24th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL2016). Beijing, China, July 17-19.

5.      Lin, Jingxia. 2016. What is possible in lexicalization of motion events? The case of Wenzhou Dialect. The 17th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW2016). Singapore, May 20-21.

6.      Khoo, Yong Kang and Jingxia Lin. 2016. Motion constructions in Singapore Mandarin Chinese: A typological perspective. The 17th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW2016). Singapore, May 20-21.

7.      Yuan, Xuelian and Jingxia Lin. 2016. Classifiers in Singapore Mandarin Chinese: A corpus based study. The 17th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW2016). Singapore, May 20-21.

8.      Ng, Chin Loong, Jingxia Lin, and Yao Yao. 2016. Polarity of Chinese emotion words: The construction of a polarity database based on Singapore Chinese speakers. The 17th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW2016). Singapore, May 20-21.

9.      Huang, Chu-Ren, Menghan Jiang, and Jingxia Lin. 2015. Comparable corpus based approach to description and identification of varieties of Chinese. The 3d Variation in Action: A Multilingual Approach (Variamu) Workshop. Aix-en-Provence, France, October 1-2.

10.  Jiang, Menghan, Jingxia Lin and Chu-Ren Huang. 2015. A comparable corpus-based study of VO compound variations between Mainland and Taiwan Mandarin. The 23rd Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL2015). Seoul, Korea, August 26-28.

11.  Peck, Jeeyoung and Jingxia Lin. 2015. Word order and quantification in Modern Mandarin Chinese. The 23rd Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL2015). Seoul, Korea, August 26-28.

12.  Lin, Jingxia and Yao Yao. 2015. Encoding emotion in Chinese: Category and intensity of Chinese emotion words. The 16th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop. Beijing, China, May 9-11.

13.  Peck, Jeeyoung and Jingxia Lin. 2014. Event quantification constraint on word order in Modern Mandarin Chinese. The 14th International Workshop of the Chinese Language and Culture Association. Shanghai, China, December 7.

14.  Chu-Ren Huang, Jingxia Lin, Menghan Jiang and Hongzhi Xu. 2014. Corpus-based study and identification of Mandarin Chinese light verb variations. COLING Workshop on Applying NLP Tools to Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects. Dublin, Ireland, August 23. 

15.  Lin, Jingxia, Hongzhi Xu, Menghan Jiang and Chu-Ren Huang. 2014. Annotation and classification of light verbs and light verb variations in Mandarin Chinese. COLING Workshop on Lexical and Grammatical Resources for Language Processing. Dublin, Ireland, August 24. 

16.  Pak, Xin Yan, Jingxia Lin and John Newman. 2014. Statistical comparison of Singaporean and Mainland Mandarin Chinese: A corpus-based study on sentence final particles. The 3rd International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse. Birkbeck, UK, June 11-13. 

17.  Lin, Jingxia and Yao Yao. 2014. Categorization and intensity of Chinese emotion words. The 15th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop. Macau, June 9-12.

18.  Neo, Chai Ling Valerie and Jingxia Lin. 2014. "Manner vs. path" revisited: A case study on the motion verb zhui in Modern Chinese. The 15th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop. Macau, June 9-12. 

19.  Peck, Jeeyoung and Jingxia Lin. 2014. Word order constraint on event delimitation in Mandarin Chinese. The 22nd Annual Conference of the IACL & the 26th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. Maryland, USA, May 2-4.  

20.  Lin, Jingxia and Yao Yao.  2014. An online survey on emotion category and intensity of Chinese emotion words. The 22nd Annual Conference of the IACL & the 26th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. Maryland, USA, May 2-4.  

21.  Jiang, Menghan, Jingxia Lin and Chu-Ren Huang. 2014. A corpus-based statistical analysis of Chinese light verbs jinxing proceed and jiayi inflictThe 22nd Annual Conference of the IACL & the 26th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. Maryland, USA, May 2-4. 

22.  Pak, Xin Yan, Jingxia Lin and John Newman. 2014. Sentence final particles in Singapore Chinese: A corpus-based statistical comparison with Mainland Chinese. The 22nd Annual Conference of the IACL & the 26th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. Maryland, USA, May 2-4. 

23.  Lin, Jingxia, Menghan Jiang, and Chu-Ren Huang. 2014. A comparable corpus driven, multivariate approach to light verb variations in World Chineses. Workshop of The 2nd Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC 2014): Corpus-based Approaches to Language Variations. Hong Kong, March 9.

24.  Yao, Yao, Jingxia Lin and Chu-Ren Huang. 2013. Lexicalized emotion? - Tonal patterns of emotion words in Chinese. The 25th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-25). Michigan, USA, June 21-23.

25.  Lin, Jingxia and Jeeyoung Peck. 2013. Scalar analysis on Mandarin Chinese gradable adjectives. The 14th International Workshop of the Chinese Language and Culture Association. Seoul, Korea, June 15.

26.  Lin, Jingxia and Jeeyoung Peck. 2013. Mandarin Chinese adjectives - A perspective of scale structure. The 21st Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-21). Taipei, Taiwan, June 7-9.

27.  Lin, Jingxia, Chu-Ren Huang, Huarui Zhang, and Hongzhi Xu. 2012. The headedness of Mandarin Chinese serial verb constructions: A corpus-based Study. PACLIC 2012: The 26th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation. Bali, Indonesia, November 6-8.

28.  Huang, Chu-Ren and Jingxia Lin. 2012. The order of serial VPs in Mandarin Chinese SVCs: A proto-VP approach. The 20th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-20). Hong Kong, August 29-31.

29.  Lin, Jingxia. 2012. Scalar change in Mandarin Chinese verbs and other syntactic units. The 20th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-20).  Hong Kong, August 29-31.

30.  Huang, Chu-Ren, Dingxu Shi, and Jingxia Lin. 2012. Design criteria of a corpus-based Chinese reference grammar. Forum on Y.R. Chao and Linguistics. Hong Kong, August 28.

31.  Huang, Chu-Ren and Jingxia Lin. 2012. The ordering of Mandarin Chinese light verbs. The 13th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop. Wuhan, China, July 6-8.

32.  Peck, Jeeyoung, Jingxia Lin and Chaofen Sun. 2012. Aspectual classification with scale feature in Mandarin Chinese. The 10th International Symposium on China Regional Culture and Language. Seoul, Korea, June 29.

33.  Peck, Jeeyoung, Jingxia Lin and Chaofen Sun. 2012. Re-examining aspectual classification of Chinese verbs. The 24th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-24). San Francisco, USA, June 8-10.

34.  Lin, Jingxia. 2012. The encoding of motion events: Order of motion morpheme in Mandarin Chinese. The 86th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Portland, USA, January 5-8.

35.  Lin, Jingxia. 2011. The order of Mandarin Chinese motion morphemes and the Scalar Specificity ConstraintPACLIC 2011: The 25th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation. Singapore, December 16-18.

36.  Lin, Jingxia and Chu-Ren Huang. 2011. The co-occurrence of two delimiters: An investigation of Mandarin Chinese resultatives. PACLIC 2011: The 25th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation. Singapore, December 16-18.

37.  Huang, Chu-Ren, Jingxia Lin, and Huarui Zhang. 2011. Corpus-based study of World Chineses. The Sixth Cross-strait Symposium on Modern Chinese. Macau, November 27.

38.  Huang, Chu-Ren and Jingxia Lin. 2011. The order of paired serial VPs in Mandarin Chinese: A syntax-semantics interface perspective. The Joint Symposium on the Interfaces of Grammar. Beijing, China, October 19-21.

39.  Lin, Jingxia. 2011. The order of motion morphemes in Chinese multi-morpheme motion construction: An analysis based on scale structure. The 12th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, Taipei, Taiwan, May 3-5.

40.  Lin, Jingxia. 2011. The figures final location must be identifiable: Localizer distribution in Chinese directed motion construction. The 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley, USA, February 12-13.

41.  Lin, Jingxia. 2010. The distribution of motion verbs in Modern Mandarin Chinese: A perspective from the syntax-semantics interface. Chinese Linguistics Workshop, Stanford, USA, December 1.

42.  Lin, Jingxia. 2009. 制约古汉语地点介词“于”的几个因素: 递归统计分析法 [Factors restricting the use of locative preposition yu in Classical Chinese: A statistical model of recursive partitioning]. The Fifth International Conference on Chinese Grammaticalization. Shanghai, China, August 21-22.               

43.  Lin, Jingxia. 2007. The ditransitive construction with provider as indirect object in Mandarin Chinese. The 8th Stanford Semantics Fest. Stanford, USA, March 16.

44.  Lin, Jingxia and John Newman. 2005. The Wenzhou Spoken Corpus: Tools for a usage-based approach to Wenzhou lexis and syntax. The 4th International Wu Dialect Conference. Ningbo, China, March 18-20.

45.  Lin, Jingxia. 2006. A corpus-based comparative study of the grammaticalization of Wenzhou and Mandarin COME and GO. The 22nd Northwest Linguistics Conference (NWLC 22). Burnaby, Canada, February 18-19.

46.  Lin, Jingxia. 2005. Corpus construction and application: The case of Wenzhou. Alberta Conference on Linguistics. Banff, Canada, October 22.

47.  Newman, John, Jingxia Lin, and Daniel Aberra. 2005. XML-based corpus construction of Wenzhou and Amharic. Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis (CaSTA). Edmonton, Canada, October 3-7.