Meichun LIU 劉美君 (Fellow)
Fields of Study:
Functional Syntax, Lexical Semantics, Corpus Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics
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Meichun Liu is Department Head and Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Translation, the City University of Hong Kong. She is a Life Member of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities.
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.
Professor Liu 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 (2010-11), Section Editor, International Journal of Computational Linguistics & Chinese Language Processing (2009-13), as well as reviewer for a number of academic journals, such as Journal of Pragmatics, Language and Linguistics, and Language.
Her teaching interests include: Functional approaches to syntax; lexical semantics; cognitive semantics; contrastive study of English and Chinese; Chinese linguistics; From linguistics to Translation
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