Employment
1991-1994: Lecturer in Chinese, ULCA.
1994-1999: Assistant Professor of Chinese and Linguistics, Lawrence University.
2000-present: Associate professor, Lawrence University. (Starting Jan. 2003, chair)
1997 summer/fall: Field Director of Associated Colleges in China, Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing.
2001-2002: Field Director of ACC, Beijing.
Professional Membership
ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching Foreign Languages)
LSA (Linguistic Society of America)
CLTA (Chinese Language Teachers Association)
IACL (International Association of Chinese Linguistics)
Education
University of California, Los
Angeles:
Ph.D., August 16, 1994: Romance Linguistics
M.A., Dec. 15, 1989: Romance Linguistics
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan:
B.A., June 11, 1984: Foreign Languages and English Literature
Academic Interests
General Linguistics: generative grammar, comparative syntax, movement and case theory.
Applied Linguistics: language pedagogy, materials development, use of computers in language teaching.
Related Interests: contemporary Chinese literature and cinema, Chinese calligraphy.
Recent Publications and Works in Progress
Books:
Sung, Kuo-ming and Lha Xian Jia. (in progress) Conversational Amdo Tibetan.
Sung, Kuo-ming. (in progress) A Reference Grammar of Mandarin Chinese
Sung, Kuo-ming. (in press, scheduled for 2003) Jufa Lilun Gaiyao (Introduction to Syntax), Revised second edition, Chinese Social Sciences Press, Beijing, China.
Sung, Kuo-ming. 1997 Jufa Liun Gailun (Introduction to Syntax), Chinese Social Sciences Press, Beijing, China.
Review:
Practical Chinese Reader,Intermediate Course: Book III. (Beijing Language Institute, Hong Kong, the Commercial Press Ltd, 1990, 2nd print), in Journal of the ChineseLanguage Teachers Association,Volume 31:3, 1996.
Articles:
Sung, Kuo-ming. 1996. "Classifier Incorporation in Japanese and Korean Partitive Constructions", Japanese/Korean Linguistics,Volume 5, ed. Akatsuka, Iwasaki, and Strauss, p. 369- 385. CSLI Publications & Stanford Linguistics Association.
Sung, Kuo-ming. 1995. "On Definiteness: More Evidence for a Partitive Approach". In Proceedings of the Formal Linguistics Society of Mid-America (FLSM VI), Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Sung, Kuo-ming. 1994a. "Classifier Incorporation and QP Standing", Proceedings of the Sixth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL6), Volume I, p. 182-94. University of Southern California, California.
Sung, Kuo-ming. 1994b. "A Typological Study of NP Extraction from QP", Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, Volume 24, Numbers 1/2, 1994, p. 403-418. University of Illinois, Urbana- Champagne, Illinois.
Ohta, Kaoru and Sung, Kuo- ming. 1993. "Defining the Affectedness Condition", Proceedings of the 19th Berkeley Linguistics Society,1993. p. 268-279.
Sung, Kuo-ming. 1992. "A/A' Incorporation and Agreement", Proceedings of the 22nd Western Conference on Linguistics(WECOL92), P. 346-55. California State University, Fresno, California.
Sung, Kuo-ming. 1990a. "On the Chinese Local and Long-Distance Reflexives", Journal of Asian Culture,Volume XIV-1990, p.55-70. Los Angeles, Regents of the University of California.
Sung, Kuo-ming. 1990b. "On the Distribution of Clitics in French Causative Constructions", Romance Linguistics and Literature Review,Volume III- 1990, p. 1-26. Los Angeles, Regents of the University of California.
Sung, Kuo-ming. 1989. "H- aspire in French", Romance Linguistics and Literature Review,Volume II- 1989, p.1-21. Los Angeles, Regents of the University of California.
Selected Recent Presentations:
Sung, Kuo-ming. 2002a.
"Bufenge Jiegou" (Chinese Partative Constructions), paper presented
April 13 at the Chinese Social Sciences Research Institute,
Beijing.
Sung, Kuo-ming. 2002b. "Application of Contemporary Syntactic Theories on Chinese", speech given on December 7 at the Chinese Department, Beijing University, Beijing.
Sung, Kuo-ming. 2000. "Subjectivitiy and Constraints on Embeding," Paper presented June 26-28 at the Ninth International Conference on Chinese Linguistics (ICCL9), National Singapore University, Singapore.
Sung, Kuo-ming. 1998. "Interpreting Multiple Dou- quantificationand Interrogative," paper presented August 26-31 at the international conference on Chinese Grammar, Peking University, Beijing.
Sung, Kuo-ming. 1996a. "Multiple Dou-Quantification and Leftward Condition", paper to be presented May 17-19 at the Eighth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL8), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne.
Sung, Kuo-ming. 1996b. "Syntactic Differences Among Le, Zhe, and Guo: Evidence from Existential Sentences", paper to be presented November 22-24 at the ACTFL and the Chinese Language Teachers Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.
Sung, Kuo-ming. 1995a. "On Definiteness: More Evidence for a Partitive Approach", paper presented on May 20 at the Sixth Conference of the Formal Linguistic Society of Mid-America, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Sung, Kuo-ming. 1995b. "Cliticization of Classifiers and Partitive Constructions", paper presented on April 22 at the 31st Annual Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
Sung, Kuo-ming. 1995c. "On Chinese Retained Object Construction", paper presented on November 19 at the ACTFL and the Chinese Language Teachers Association Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California.
Sung, Kuo-ming. 1994a. "Classifier Incorporation in Japanese and Korean Partitive Constructions", paper presented on November 5 at the Fifth Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, University of California, Los Angeles, California
Sung, Kuo-ming. 1994b. "A Typological Study of NP Extraction from Quantifier Phrases", paper presented on May 22 at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Formal Linguistics Society of Mid-America (FLSM V), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, Illinois.
Sung, Kuo-ming. 1994c. "Cliticization of Classifiers and Its Consequences", paper presented on July 14 at the Third International Conference on Chinese Linguistics (ICCL3), City Polytechnic of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Sung, Kuo-ming. 1993a. "Binding in Mandarin Resultative Clauses (and its Theoretical Implication on Ba- Construction)", paper presented on June 23 at the Second International Conference on Chinese Linguistics (ICCL2), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
Sung, Kuo-ming. 1993b. "Teaching the Invisibles -- Syntax below Surface", paper presented on November 22 at the ACTFL and the Chinese Language Teachers Association 1993 annual meeting, San Antonio, Texas.
Ohta, Kaoru and Sung, Kuo- ming. 1993. "Defining the Affectedness Condition", paper presented on February 14 at the 19th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley, California.
Sung, Kuo-ming. 1992a. "On the Middle Function of Qilai", paper presented on May 9 at the Fourth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL4), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Sung, Kuo-ming. 1992b. "Chinese Middles and the Affectedness Condition", paper presented on June 25 at the First International Conference of Chinese Linguistics (ICCL-1), National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Sung, Kuo-ming. 1992c. "A/A' Incorporation and Agreement", paper presented on October 16 at the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL92), Tucson, Arizona.