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Dr. Pin-Hsi Patrick Chen received his PhD in Linguistics from Purdue University. He is interested in the cognitive and biological foundations of language. Specifically, he studies the syntactic structure of language to identify properties of humans' linguistic faculty as a biological cognitive system. His current research is focused on the interplay between language and the conceptualization of motion and space. He develops theoretical models to describe and explain how different languages express such concepts as time, space, and movement.
Publications
1. Chen, Pin-Hsi Patrick, Kwaku O. A. Osei-Tutu, and Neda Taherkhani. (forthcoming). ‘A cross-linguistic syntactic analysis of telicity in motion predicates in Southern Tati, Mandarin, and Ghanaian Student Pidgin’ Studies in Language.
2. Chen, Pin-Hsi. (2022). Motion Predicates in Taiwan Mandarin—A Linguistic Dataset. Purdue University Research Repository. doi:10.4231/B2WX-QA39
3. Chen, Pin-Hsi Patrick. (2020). ‘How sub-event verbal classifiers and numerals are related to telicity in Taiwan Mandarin: From a constructionist perspective’, in Chen, Kaidi (ed.) Proceedings of the 32nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-32) 97–114.
4. Benedicto, Elena, Pin-Hsi Patrick Chen, Kwaku Osei-Tutu, and Neda Taherkhani. (2019). ‘Non-standard complementation: The case of serial verb constructions in motion predicates. A cross-linguistic, cross-modality study’, in Cho, Sae-Youn (ed.) Proceedings of the 12th Generative Linguistics in the Old World & the 21st Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar 293–308.
5. Chen, Pin-Hsi Patrick, Kwaku O. A. Osei-Tutu, and Neda Taherkhani. (2019). ‘The syntactic structure of telicity in motion predicates in Tati, Mandarin, and Ghanaian Student Pidgin (GSP)’, in Chernouski, Libby and David O’Neil (eds.) Conference Proceedings of the Third Purdue Linguistics, Literature, and Second Languages Conference: Diversity and Divergence. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 83–100.
Other Authored Works
1. Chen, Pin-Hsi. (2021). ‘An Exo-Skeletal Analysis of Complex-Path Motion Predicates in Taiwan Mandarin’, Ph.D. dissertation, Purdue University.
2. Chen, Pin-Hsi. (2018). ‘Verbal Classifiers, Numerals, and Telicity in Mandarin’, MS, Purdue University.
3. Chen, Pin-Hsi. (2017). ‘Motion Predicates in Taiwanese Mandarin: Manner, Path, and Telicity’, MS, Purdue University.
Conference Presentations
1. Chen, Pin-Hsi Patrick. (2020). ‘How sub-event classifiers and numerals are related to telicity in Taiwan Mandarin: From a constructionist perspective’, The 32nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-32). University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. (Online) September 20, 2020.
2. Chen, Pin-Hsi. (2020). ‘Verbal classifiers, numerals, and telicity in Taiwan Mandarin: An Exo-Skeletal analysis’, The 28th Edition of the Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE 28). Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain. January 31, 2020.
3. Chen, Pin-Hsi, Kwaku Osei-Tutu, and Neda Taherkhani. (2019). ‘Telicity in motion predicates in Southern Tati, Mandarin, and Ghanaian Student Pidgin (GSP)’, Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics of Aspect across Modalities (SSPAM): A Workshop at the 13th International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic, and Computation. Batumi, Georgia. September 16, 2019.
4. Benedicto, Elena, Pin-Hsi Chen, Kwaku Osei-Tutu, and Neda Taherkhani. (2019). ‘Non-standard complementation: The case of serial verb constructions in motion predicates. A cross-linguistic, cross-modality study’, The 12th Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) & the 21st Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar. Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea. August 6, 2019.
5. Chen, Pin-Hsi. (2019). ‘Verbal classifiers and telicity in Mandarin: An Exo-Skeletal analysis’, The 4th Purdue Linguistics, Literature, and Second Language Studies Conference (PLSS). Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. March 1, 2019.
6. Chen, Pin-Hsi, Kwaku Osei-Tutu, and Neda Taherkhani. (2018). ‘The syntactic structure of telicity in motion predicates in Tati, Mandarin, and Ghanaian Student Pidgin’, The 3rd Purdue Linguistics, Literature, and Second Language Studies Conference (PLSS). Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. March 4, 2018.
7. Liu, Yichun and Pin-Hsi Chen. (2014). ‘Exploring L2 reading-writing instructional practices: Linking literacies of L2 writing’, The 6th Center for Language Studies International Conference (CLaSIC 2014). Presented by co-author (Yichun Liu). National University of Singapore, Singapore. December 4–6, 2014.
