The Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Peking University Research Centre on Chinese Linguistics is proud to organize the 6th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL-6) at Peking University, Beijing, China on August 15-16, 2010.

The TEAL Workshop was first launched in 1990 at the University of California, Irvine as a mid-size workshop intended to foster research on East Asian linguistics. It has been an important forum for presenting new theories and exchanging novel ideas that bear on East Asian languages with theoretical interests. Since 2002, the TEAL Workshop has been an international event. It was held at Doshisha University, Japan in 2002,  National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan in 2004, at Harvard University, USA in 2005, at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong in 2007, and at Potsdam University, Germany in 2008.

The TEAL-6 Workshop will be held at Peking University in conjunction with the 8th GLOW in Asia, as well as the Symposium Commemorating the 90th Anniversary of the Birth of Prof. Zhu Dexi and the 50th Anniversary of Prof. Lu Jianming’s Teaching (“Zhu-Lu Symposium”).

Venue:

Peking University, Beijing, China

Important Dates:

Deadline for abstract submissions: March 15, 2010 (new deadline)

Deadline for registration: May 31, 2010 (first round)

Deadline for registration: July 19, 2010 (second round)

Deadline for registration: August 2, 2010 (third round)

Workshop: August 15 (presentations) and 16 (excursion), 2010

About the Workshop:

Organizer:

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Peking University Research Centre on Chinese Linguistics

Co-organizers:

• Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University

• Center for Chinese Linguistics, Peking University

• Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  
  

Co-sponsors (in alphabetical order of the institutions):

• Center for Linguistic Theory, Beijing Language and Culture University

• Center for Studies of Chinese as a Second Language, Beijing Language and Culture University

• Institute of Linguistics, Beijing Language and Culture University

• Commercial Press

• National Key Research Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

• Japanese Society for Promotion of Science

• Language and Culture Research Institute, Minzu University of China

• Institute of Linguistics, Nankai University

• Linguistics Institute of the School of Foreign Languages, Peking University

• College of Foreign Languages, Tianjin Normal University