#  Handouts 

 



**Handouts, abstracts and papers**

1. Web discussion and summary of Huang's talk 05-30-2016 [講座 | On the Universality of the Adjunct-Complement Distinction](https://goo.gl/iOGwG8)
2. Web discussion of Huang 2015, Part II [他山之玉 | 黄正德论汉语的分析性和参数理论(下)](http://www.wtoutiao.com/p/1c4U0ib.html)
3. Web discussion of Huang 2015, Part I [他山之玉](http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzA3MjkyOTI0Nw==&mid=2650625787&idx=1&sn=80eaa1cf519ae16bffefed8cf60d30b4&scene=1&srcid=0520hy58HNhgz85QCywdXMu3&from=singlemessage&isappinstalled=0#wechat_redirect)｜[黃正德論漢語的分析性和參數理論(上](/file_url/191))
4. [\[争鸣\]「被」字新用 UG永恒？北大句法小组活动之黄正德“被”沙龙了](/file_url/190) \[Web discussion of Huang 2013, and Huang& Liu 2014\]
5. [中心語後置名詞組結構: 是構式還是組合?](/file_url/172) \[On the structure of head-final NPs: construction or composition?\] paper presented at the 5th Overseas Linguists Symposium, at Jiangsu Normal University, [第五屆海外中國語言學者論壇主題報告](http://ling.cssn.cn/yyx/yyx_yclg/201509/t20150916_2345553.shtml), 江蘇師範大學 (June 3, 2015). Also colloquium talk at Beijing Normal University [北京師範大學文學院勵耘講座](/file_url/171) (July 10, 2015).
6. [Passives forever: control, raising and implicit arguments.](/file_url/173) Presented at [GLOW in Asia X: the 10th conference of GLOW in Asia, National Tsing Hua University](/file_url/174), May 24-26, 2014.
7. [語言的共性、特性與創新](/file_url/175). 國立東華大學演講, 2014.05.19. National Dong Hua Univ., on language variation, change and innovation, May 19, 2014. [**視屏** videocast](http://podcast.ndhu.edu.tw/podcast/show_episode/2031)
8. [Syntactic variation and parametric theory,](/file_url/176) colloquium talk presented at National Chung-Cheng University, Jiayi, April 18, 2014.
9. [On the relation between topic and focus](/file_url/177). Presented at the Workshop on Topic Structure, Chinese University of Hong Kong, February 2014.
10. [從被xx的句法語義談語法理論和句法演變](/file_url/179). [第五屆當代語言學國際圓桌會議論文](/file_url/180) ([南京師範大學](/file_url/181), 2015-10.18-20). 廣東語言學學會年會(中山大學, 2013.12.05). \[與柳娜共同發表\]. On the syntax and semantics “被XX” construction. Presented at the Modern Linguistics Round Table, [Nanjing](/file_url/182) Normal University, October 2013. Also at the 2013 annual meeting of Guangdong Linguistics Association, December 2013. \[Presented with Na Liu\]
11. [Word order and information structure](/file_url/178). Presented at 8th Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL-8), sponsored by [National Tsing Hua University](http://ling.nthu.edu.tw/teal8/TEAL8/Welcome.html), June 4-5, 2013.
12. [On the smuggling approach to the passive construction](/file_url/184). Presented at the 31st Conference of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL-31), at [Arizona State ](/file_url/185)University, February 2013. \[Presented with Na Kristy Liu\].
13. [Null topics and the MCP](/file_url/186). Presented at the workshop “Privileges of the Root” at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. January 3-6, 2013, at Boston. \[Presented with Barry Yang\]
14. Language typology and the fine structure of argument structure. Presented at the 4th International Conference on Sinology. Academia Sinica, June 2012.
15. Three questions about *suo*-sentences. Presented at the International Symposium on Modern Chinese Syntax and Semantics, at Tsing Hua University, August 2009.
16. Variation and change in parametric theory: 3 questions concerning *suo*-sentences in Classical and Modern Chinese. Presented at the conference “The Past Meets the Present,” Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, July 14-16, 2008.
17. [Unaccusativity, ditransitives, and extra-grammaticality](/file_url/166). Colloquium talk, at University of Connecticut, 03-07-2008.
18. Macro- and micro-parametric changes in the history of Chinese syntax. Presented at GLOW in ASIA VI, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, December 2007.
19. Parametric theory and the macro-history of Chinese syntax. Colloquium lecture, Academia Sinica, June 2007.
20. The macro-history of Chinese syntax and parametric theory (two handouts: [HandoutA](/file_url/164) and [HandoutB](/file_url/165)). Presented at The Workshop on Chinese Linguistics, University of Chicago, 2006.
21. Handouts from **LSA 2005 Course**: [Syntactic Analyticity and the Other End of the Parameter](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~ctjhuang/Course_LSA222/LSA222.html)**,** July 17 - August 5, 2005. LSA Linguistic Institute, sponsored by Harvard University and MIT.
22. **TEAL-3:** [3rd Internantional Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~ctjhuang/teal3/teal3.html), July 23-24, 2005
23. [Direct and Indirect Passives in East Asian](/file_url/188). Presented at the 11th annual conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-11), Aichi Prefectural University, Nagoya, Japan, August 2002.
24. [Relativization: Order and Structure](/file_url/187). Presented at the 9th International Conference of Chinese Linguisitcs (Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics, IACL-9), National University of Singapore, June 26-28, 2000. (Presented with Audrey Li and Yafei Li)
25. Historical syntax meets phrase structure theory. Presented at the 4th annual conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-4), University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1995.

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