Prof. LIU Meichun (刘美君)
Professor, Department of Linguistics and Translation

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YEUNG-B7717

meichliu@cityu.edu.hk
Phone: +852 34428722

Author IDs ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9471-7181
Scopus Author ID: 56174307600




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Qualifications/Experiences?1993?? Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Colorado at BoulderAdvisor: Dr. Barbara Fox (student of Sandra A. Thompson)Dissertation topic: Discourse, Grammar, and Grammaticalization: Synchronic and DiachronicAnalysis of the Mandarin?Adverbial Markers?Jiu?and?Cai.
?1993? Certificate in Cognitive Science, University of Colorado at Boulder
?1987 M.A. in Linguistics, Ohio University
?1984 B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University
BiographyProfessor Meichun Liu received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1993. Before joining the Department of Linguistics and Translation, City University of Hong Kong as the Head in August 2015, she taught in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Chiao-Tung University (NCTU) since 1994 and was promoted to the rank of Professor of Linguistics in 2002. Between 2003 and 2006, she was the Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature of NCTU. In 2007-08, she was the Director of NCTU Library. In 2013-14, she was the Coordinator of the Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language Certificate Program. She was also a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado at Boulder, and a Visiting Scholar at the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University.
Prof. Liu is currently a Fellow and Executive Committee member of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities, a member of the Humanities and Social Sciences Panel of the Joint Research Schemes of the Research Grant Council, and distinguish professor of the Zhejiang International Studies University. She was appointed as Honorary Academic Consultant for the 国家语委汉语辞书中心 in 2017-18.
Professor Liu has led numerous research projects as PI and engaged in cross-disciplinary collaboration with scholars in Natural Language Processing and Applied Linguistics. She has won a number of significant awards in teaching and research, including the NCTU Excellent Teaching Award (2014), NCTU Distinguished Academic Book Publication Award (2013), LST Thesis of the Year Award, Linguistics Society of Taiwan (2011), Pursuit of Excellency Research Grant Award (2007-2011), NCTU Outstanding Teaching Award (2009-10). She has also served as the External Reviewer, Hong Kong Research Grant Council (2011-14), LST Board Member (2010-12), Section Editor, International?Journal of Computational Linguistics & Chinese Language Processing?(2009-13), as well as reviewer for a number of prestigious journals, such as?Language, Journal of semantics, Journal of Pragmatics,?Studies in Language, Lingua, Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, Australian Journal of Linguistics, Journal of Chinese Linguistics, and Language and Linguistics, etc. She is dedicated to integrating linguistics research with knowledge transfer.
Research Interests/AreasFunctional Syntax
Lexical Semantics
Corpus Linguistics
Cognitive Linguistics
TeachingEnglish and Chinese Language and Linguistics
Cognitive Linguistics
Language Processing
ActivitiesInvited Speeches2016 “The Linguistic Mission: Making Sense of Language”, presented to 厦门大学外国语文学院.
2016 “英文写作有诀窍Think English, Write English”, presented to students of Takming University of Science and Technology.
2016 “英文写作有诀窍Think English, Write English”, presented to MOE Workshop on Improving English Education (英语教育精进计划), Takming University of Science and Technology.
2016 “How to make sense of English Grammar?”, presented to 山东大学外语学院.
2016 “Emotion in Lexicon and Grammar: Insight from Mandarin Chinese”, presented to 山东师范文学院.
2016 “汉语情感动词句法语义研究新视角”, presented to 山东大学中文信息研究所.
2015 “Emotion Verbs in Chinese and English”, presented to浙江大学高层学术论坛, School of International Studies, Zhejiang University.
2015 “Emotion Verbs in Chinese and English”, presented to School of Foreign Languages, Beihang University.
2015 “Mandarin Verbs and Verb Classes”, presented to Institute of Computational Linguistics, Peking University.
2014? Forum talk on “Think English, Write English”, Language Center, National Chungcheng Univ.
2014? Invited speaker and instructor, Miaoli County Program for Academically Gifted Students.
2013? Workshop Instructor, Hsinchu County Junior High School English Teachers Program.
2013? Talk on Making sense of English, Language Center, National Chungcheng Univ.
2013? Invited speaker, Stanford Confucius Institute Symposium, Stanford University, USA.
2013 ?Invited Speaker, Chiayi Technology High School 嘉义市嘉义高工.
2013 ?Invited Speaker, Chiayi Chiahua High School 嘉义市嘉华中学.
2013 ?Invited Speaker, Tainan Cave Bookstore 台南市敦煌书局.
2012 ?Invited Speaker, ETA Annual Conference 全国英语教师年会.
2012 ?Invited Speaker, Hsuan Chuang University.
2012? Forum speaker, the Taipei City Library, Taiwan.
2009 ?Invited speaker, The 19th International Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Paris, France.
2009 ?Keynote speaker, Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, Yantai, Shandong, China.
2008? Keynote speaker, Tri-JiaoTung Conference on Applied Linguistics, Xi-an, China.