Session 1
Chair: Dingxu SHI
Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies,
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

2:30-3:15

John WHITMAN
Topic Prominence in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
The National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics and Cornell University

3:15-4:00

Wei-Tien Dylan TSAI
A Case of V2 in Chinese
National Tsing Hua University

4:00-4:30

TEA RECEPTION

Session 2
Chair: Shengli FENG
Department of Chinese Language and Literature,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

4:30-5:15

C.-T. James HUANG
On the Interaction of Topic and Focus
Harvard University

5:15-5:45

DISCUSSION