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Li, Ying-Che

CCS Faculty
Professor, East Asian Languages & Literatures

Moore 354: 956-8406
Department: 956-8940; Fax: 956-9515

BA 1959, Tunghai University
MA 1964, University of Michigan
PhD 1970, University of Michigan

Professor Y. C. Li has been a two-time recipient of Fulbright research grants on comparative Chinese dialects, a project director and co-director of five research grants on Chinese grammar from the Department of Education and five additional federal grants on CALL Chinese comprehension courseware. He has also been a Chinese linguistic consultant to the Singapore Ministry of Education, the Hong Kong Education Department, and the Ministry of Education in Taiwan on Chinese language textbook compilation and testing. He was chair of the Chinese Proficiency Guidelines Committee, which was instrumental in developing the national Chinese proficiency guidelines under the sponsorship of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and under the support of the Department of Education. He also co-directed the development of several sets of Chinese Proficiency Tests for speaking, listening, and reading, with Dr. John Clark of the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington, D.C. He has published seven books and fifty articles on the areas of Chinese synchronic and diachronic syntax, comparative dialects, language teaching and testing, and Call-Chinese, in journals such as the Journal of Chinese Linguistics, the Journal of Chinese Language Teachers Association, Language, and Zhongguo Yuwen [Chinese Language and Writing].

China-Related Courses

Chn 313, 314 Mandarin Conversation Chn 401, 402 Fourth-Level Mandarin Chn 451, 452 Structure of Chinese Chn 470 Chinese Language and Culture Chn 631C History of Chinese Language: Syntax Chn 632 Chinese Dialects Chn 750B Research Seminar in Chinese Language: Teaching Methods Chn 750C Research Seminar in Chinese Language: Structure Chn 750D Research Seminar in Chinese Language: Classical Grammar

Publications

"Zhongwen jiaocai bianxie ruanti de sheji he jiaoxueshang de kaolü." [Pedagogical Considerations in the Design of a CALL Authoring Software]. World of Chinese Language 78: 16–20. "Duiwai Hanyu jiaoxuezhong yuedu lijie de guanjian wenti." [Some Critical Questions on Reading Comprehension in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language]. Perspectives on Language Teaching, Hong Kong Chinese Language Education Society (1994): 332–341. "Competing Changes and Linguistic Compromise in Chinese Diachronic Syntax."Essays on Chinese Linguistics in Honor of William S-Y. Wang, 1994. "Hanyu zhuti yu zhuyu zhi bian." [The Separation of Topic and Subject in Chinese Grammar]. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Teaching of Chinese as a Second Language. Taipei, 1993. "Aspects of Comparative Syntax between Mandarin and Taiwanese: Use of Negatives in Questions." Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics, Taipei, 1992. 437–448. Language Proficiency Requirements for Teachers of Putonghua and the Design of Putonghua Courses and Materials for Teachers. Hong Kong: Institute of Language in Education, 1993. "Aspects of Historical and Comparative Syntax in Taiwanese and Mandarin." Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Sinology. Taipei: Academia Sinica, 1989. Mandarin Chinese: A Practical Reference Grammar for Students and Teachers (Co-authored w/Robert L. Cheng, Larry C. Foster, Shang H. Ho, John Y. Hou, and Moira Yip). 2 vols. Taiwan: Crane Publishing, Chinese Materials Center Publications, 1984-89. Hanyu Lishi Gongshi Yufa Lunji (Chinese Grammar Then and Now: Writings on Chinese Diachronic and Synchronic Syntax). Beijing: Beijing Language and Culture University Press. viii 336 pp. 2000 Shuangyu Shuang-fangyan Yanjiu de Xin Qiji (A New Turning Point in Bilingual and Bidialectal Studies). Shuangyu Shuang-fangyan (6) [Bilingual and Bidialectal Studies, No. 6]. Eds.. Chen En-quan, et al. Bilingual and Bidialectal Education. Hong Kong: The Sinology Publisher. To appear. 2000 Cong Yuyi Xin Shiye Kan Hanyude Yixie Chongdie Xianxiang (New Semantic Perspectives on Certain Reduplications in Mandarin). Hanyu Xuebao [Chinese Linguistics] 2000.1:16-20. Wuhan. 2000 Yuyan Ceshi de Zhenduixing (Specific Focuses of Language Testing.) Proceedings of the International Symposium on Language Testing and Teaching. Hong Kong. To appear. 2000 Aspects of Historical and Comparative Syntax: Functions of Prepositions in Taiwanese-Min and Mandarin. Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on the Grammar of Sinitic Languages. Ed. by Hilary Chapel. Oxford University Press. 2001