© 2008 by Marjorie K.M. Chan The NACCL-20 Program Book is compiled by Marjorie K.M. Chan and Hana Kang, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A. Printed and bound by UniPrint, 2500 Kenny Road, Columbus, Ohio. Special thanks go to Graeme Henson, student assistant at the East Asian Studies Center, for his graphics designs for the 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20), including the design of the front and back covers of this program book. We also thank our colleague, Professor Tianwei Xie (Cali- fornia State University, Long Beach), for his help with the Chinese font used in the logo. ii WELCOME TO NACCL-20! We are delighted to host the 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20), which is being held at The Ohio State University on 25-27 April 2008. The event celebrates NACCL’s 20th anni- versary at its birthplace, The Ohio State University! Our campus is located in Columbus in the heart of Ohio, the “Buckeye State.” We look forward to your attendance at this exciting 2-1/2 day conference. Scholars from over 70 institutions in 13 countries/regions around the world will be presenting at NACCL-20. Papers on Chinese linguistics cover the full range of topics in the packed schedule, with four parallel sessions on the first two days, and three parallel sessions on the third morning. In addition to 113 papers scheduled to be presented at the conference, we have invited three plenary speakers. Our special invited guest and speaker is Edwin G. Pulleyblank (蒲⽴本), Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, and one of the world’s most respected and influential scholars in Chinese linguistics and Chinese history. The Pro- ceedings of the Twentieth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics will be dedicated to Professor Pulleyblank, in honor of his eighty-fifth birthday. Co-sponsored in association with The Institute for Chinese Studies as part of the Institute's “Rethinking China” Lecture Series, Professor Pulleyblank’s plenary speech on Saturday is a public lecture and is, hence, open to all. Two plenary speakers with international reputation in Chinese linguistics as well as close connections to NACCL’s twenty-year history are James H.-Y. Tai (戴浩⼀), National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan—the architect and senior organizer of NACCL-1 (NECCL-1) when he was a faculty member at The Ohio State University—and Yen-hui Audrey Li (李艷惠), University of Southern California, the creator of the NACCL Proceedings series. We have also invited two other colleagues who have had historical ties to NACCL, namely, Thomas Ernst (殷 天兴), at University of Massachusetts and Dartmouth College, and Robert Sanders (沈德思), University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. We deeply appreciate our five colleagues who have accepted our invitation to come to join us in celebrating NACCL’s 20th anniversary. We thank our sponsors for their generosity in making this event possible, and all those who have chipped in, volunteered, and worked diligently to assist in preparing for the conference. We are honored that you have come from near and far to participate at this year’s NACCL con- ference. We welcome you—or welcome you back, as the case may be—to our Buckeye State and to The Ohio State University! Sincerely, Marjorie K.M. Chan, Chair NACCL-20 Organizing Committee Associate Professor, Department of E. Asian Langs. & Lits. Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics NACCL-20 Website: http://chinalinks.osu.edu/naccl-20/ iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With Gratitude to ... The Ohio State University Sponsors East Asian Studies Center (Patricia Sieber, Director; Amy Carey, Assistant Director) Institute for Chinese Studies (Patricia Sieber, Director) Office of International Affairs (Dieter Wanner, Interim Associate Provost) College of Humanities (John W. Roberts, Dean) Center for Cognitive Science (Vladimir Sloutsky, Director) Asian American Student Services (Kashif Khan, Coordinator), Multicultural Center OSU Chinese Flagship Program (Galal Walker) & National East Asian Languages Resource Center (Galal Walker, Director) Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures (Mari Noda, Chair) Department of Linguistics (Beth Hume, Chair) Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures (Daniel Collins, Chair) This event is sponsored in part by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI Grant. Donors Two anonymous donors NACCL-20 Organizing Committee: Marjorie K.M. Chan (Dept. of E. Asian Languages & Literatures), Chair Mineharu Nakayama (DEALL), Committee Member Etsuyo Yuasa (DEALL), Committee Member Graduate Association of Chinese Linguistics (GACL) Hana Kang (President & NACCL-20 Research Assistant), Bo Zhu (Vice President), Yi He (Treasurer), Chunsheng Yang (President-Elect), Inae Oh, Helena Riha, Jing Yan, and Rongbin Zheng Staff and Student Assistance Jennifer McCoy Bartko (Accounts Manager & NACCL-20 Administrative Assistant) and Graeme Henson (Graphics Designer, Student Assistant), East Asian Studies Center Jody Croley Jones (Web Services Manager) and Miles Oldenburg (Web Developer), Humanities Information Systems, College of Humanities Debbie Knicely (Office Administrative Associate), Hui Chu (Office Associate), and So- young Han (Office Assistant), Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures Karen Lynn Moore (Information Associate), Foreign Language Publications, Foreign Lan- guage Center Graduate and undergraduate student volunteers from DEALL, Linguistics, and Education to assist at the conference site iv TABLE OF CONTENTS Welcome to NACCL-20! ..................................................................................................... iii Acknowledgements .............................................................................................................. iv Table of Contents ................................................................................................................. v On-Site Registration and Other Info .................................................................................... vi Conference Program .............................................................................................................1 Abstracts ............................................................................................................................... 11 Authors ............................................................................................................................... 13 Plenary Session Authors ................................................................................................... 13 Main Session Authors ...................................................................................................... 17 Index to Authors: Program Sessions and Abstracts ............................................................. 130 Plenary Session Authors ................................................................................................... 131 Main Session Authors ...................................................................................................... 131 Advertisements ..................................................................................................................... 137 Ramseyer Hall Floor Plans ................................................................................................... 142 Chartered Bus Schedule ....................................................................................................... 144 Notes ..................................................................................................................................... 146 v ON-SITE REGISTRATION & OTHER INFO 1. NACCL-20 On-Site Registration Ramseyer Hall (Building 090, 29 West Woodruff Avenue) - Room 136 (Lounge): April 25-26 (Fri-Sat): 7:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. April 27 (Sun): ~ Closed ~ - Conference Program Packets are available at the on-site registration table in the Lounge (RA 136) for those who have pre-registered. 2. Session Locations Plenary Sessions I & II - To be held in Ramseyer Hall (RA), Room 100. (Building 090, 29 West Woodruff Avenue) Plenary Session III - Co-hosted by NACCL-20 and the Institute for Chinese Studies, as part of ICS’ “Rethinking China” lecture series - Open to the public - To be held in Hagerty Hall (HH), Room 180. (Building 037, 1775 College Road) Main Sessions - To be held in Ramseyer Hall (RA): RA 100: A-Sessions RA 110: B-Sessions RA 336: C-Sessions (except 1-C, in RA 115) RA 065: D-Sessions (Note: Floor plans for Ramseyer Hall are placed on pages 140 and 141 in this conference program book.) 3. Ramseyer Hall Lounge (RA 136) - In addition to being the room for on-site registration and pick up of conference program packets, the Lounge in Ramseyer Hall, Room 136, is also where tea, coffee, and pastries will be available before the sessions begin and during the 15-minute breaks between sessions. Lounge Hours: - The lounge in RA 136 will be available at the following times: April 25-26 (Fri-Sat): 7:30 a.m. - 12:00, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. April 27 (Sun): 7:30 a.m. – noon vi The 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20) 第⼆⼗屆北美漢語語⾔學會議 25-27 April 2008 Conference Program NACCL-20 On-Site Registration Lounge (RA 136): Ramseyer Hall (Building 090, 29 West Woodruff Avenue) Tea, coffee, and pastries will be available before the sessions begin and Room 136 (Lounge): during the 15-minute breaks in the lounge. Hours: The lounge in RA 136 will be available