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In the framework of the ERC project « The hybrid syntactic typology of Sinitic languages » and the research programme of Team 1,  CRLAO  “Typologie et diachronie des langues sino-tibétaines en Asie orientale”, the following research seminars, each of two hours’ duration, were held during the EHESS teaching period from October 2009 to the end of 2010 (and are ongoing in 2011which is outside of the present reporting period).20 October 2009Professor Christine Lamarre, INALCO, Paris« Using the Atlas of Chinese Dialects (漢語方言地圖集 ) - a critical introduction »10 November 2009Professor Susan ROTHSTEINUniversity of Bar-Ilan - Gonda Brain Research Center, Tel Aviv, Israel« Classifier constructions and the count/measure constrast: a crosslinguistic perspective »17 November 2009Professor Fang Mei, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Peking« 现代汉语零形主语小句的功能 »(«The function of null subject clauses in Modern Chinese »)24 November 2009Dr Jian WANG, ERC Sinotype project, CRLAO, EHESS , Paris« An investigation of the phenomenon of classifiers used alone in the Jiangsu and Hui dialects » 苏晚方言量词独用现象考察1 December 2009Dr Yujie CHEN, ERC Sinotype project, CRLAO, EHESS , Paris« The system of semantic gradation of demonstratives in the languages of China » 中国语言指示词的语义层级8 December 2009Dr Hilario de Sousa, ERC Sinotype project, CRLAO, EHESS , Paris« Southern Pinghua nominal structure — a brief introduction » 15 December 2009Professor Thepkanjana KINGKARN and Professor Satoshi UEHARAUniversité de Chulalongkorn, Thailand and University of Tohoku, Japon « Relationship between Word Order and Grammaticalization of Serial Verbs :A Case Study of the Verbs for ‘Give’ and ‘Take’ in Thai andMandarin Chinese »5 January 2010Hilary CHAPPELL, ERC Sinotype project, CRLAO, EHESS , Paris« Expression of adnominal possession: crosslinguistic examination »(definitions of linguistic possession of alienable and inalienable types, the genitive, iconic and economic motivations (cf Haiman), inalienability hierarchy)12 January 2010Hilary CHAPPELL, ERC Sinotype project, CRLAO, EHESS , Paris« Associative noun phrases in standard Mandarin: the use or omission of de 的» (exploration of whether the absence of de 的 in Noun __ Noun complex NPs signals the relation of inalienable possession in Mandarin, use in discourse, findings of a variable rules analysis of corpus)17 January 2010Hilary CHAPPELL, ERC Sinotype project, CRLAO, EHESS , Paris«Possessive noun phrases in Hakka: Part I»(unusual case of portmanteau possessive pronoun paradigm in Hakka dialects; issue of inalienability)24 January 2010Hilary CHAPPELL, ERC Sinotype project, CRLAO, EHESS , Paris«Possessive noun phrases in Hakka: Part II»(diachronic source of possessive pronouns, examination of a small corpus of Hakka materials for the four different adnominal possessive NP construction types)2 February 2010Hilary CHAPPELL, ERC Sinotype project, CRLAO, EHESS , Paris«Functional polysemy of diminutives in crosslinguistic perspective»(radial categories, sources, pathways of semantic change, tone sandhi in Cantonese versus suffixes in other Chinese dialects)9 February 2010Dr Jian WANG, ERC Sinotype project, CRLAO, EHESS , Paris« General introduction to the nominal structure of the Jixi dialect  (Hui, Sinitic). »16 February 2010Hilary CHAPPELL, ERC Sinotype project, CRLAO, EHESS , Paris«Diminutives in Sinitic dialects:Part I»(Different semantic extensions of diminutives and different domains of usage, the diachronic relation between tone sandhi &#38; suffixes:the fate of 囝 kiàn in Min and Wu dialects)9 March 2010«Diminutives in Sinitic dialects:Part II»(co-existence of several diminutive markers in one language, layering and semantic division of labour.N.B. Participants may contribute data from the languages they are researching in the discussion session in the second part of the seminar.)16 March 2010Dr Yujie CHEN, ERC Sinotype project, CRLAO, EHESS , Paris« Introduction to the nominal structure of the Zhoukou dialect (Central Plains Mandarin, Sinitic) »  « 中原官话区周口方言中的名词性结构 »19 March 2010Dr Alexis Michaud, Lacito, CNRS, Paris« Tone sandhi in numeral-plus-classifier determiners: data from Na, Lazeand Naxi, and phylogenetic implications for the Na language group »30 March 2010Professor Chinfa LIEN, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan« Rhetorical use of Southern Min question-word questions in the Ming and Qing periods » 明清時代閩南語特指疑 問 句的反詰用法6 April 2010Luxia LI, CRLAO, EHESS, Paris« 汉 语中的“指示代词+量词+名词”和“指示 代词+名词”结构 »« On the (Dem) + Clf + Noun construction in Chinese »13April 2010Sing Sing NGAI 倪星星, ERC Sinotype project, CRLAO, EHESS , Paris« The Shaowu dialect: A brief introduction to its noun phrase structures»20 April 2010Dr Katia Chirkova, CRLAO, CNRS, Paris« A comparison of classifier systems in four Tibeto-Burman languages of Muli:  Lizu, Namuzi, Shixing and Kami »May – August 2010  Sinotype team members departed for various fieldwork trips, the linguistic typology summer school held at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany or went for conference trips abroad.17-18 September 2010:7th International Symposium on Ancient Chinese Grammar (ISACG-7) CNRS : Station biologique de Roscoff, BrittanyApart from attending ISACG-7 and the Workshop on the Grammar of  Northwestern Chinese dialects, Sinotype Team members held a half-day research meeting to discuss the upcoming 2010-2011 research programme on predicate structure of Sinitic languages and gave individual reports on their fieldwork trips and research achievements during 2009-2010.7 October 2010CHEN Manjun 陈曼君, CRLAO, EHESS , Paris« Diachronic development of the modal verb 通 in Southern Min dialects from the Ming and Qing periods until the present » 明清以来闽南方言助动词通的演变12 October 2010Research meeting – team discussion : « Sources of aspect systems in Chinese dialects. Part I » 漢語方言体系統的来源 14 October 2010WANG Jian 王健« The Classifier + Noun construction in  the Shangzhuang dialect of Jixi (Hui) »19 October 2010Research meeting – team discussion :  « Sources of aspect systems in Chinese dialects. Part II » 漢語方言体系統的来源21 October 2010Hilary CHAPPELL, ERC Sinotype project, CRLAO, EHESS , Paris« The nominal structure of Gaofeng Xiang » 湘西高峰乡话的名词结构26 October 2010Research meeting– team discussion :   « Negative adverbs in Chinese dialects » 漢語方言中的否定副詞28 October 2010LI Xuping  李旭平, ERC Sinotype project, CRLAO, EHESS , Paris« On the diminutive marker tsiɁ and the nominal marker tsï in the Yichun dialect of Gan” 2 November 2010Hilario de SOUSA苏沙, ERC Sinotype project, CRLAO, EHESS , Paris « First look into the multifunctional particle ke55 in Nanning Pinghua » 4 November 2010Hilary CHAPPELL, ERC Sinotype project, CRLAO, EHESS , Paris«Intersubjectivity and nonlexical uses of say verbs in Sinitic »  9 November 2010Dr Yujie CHEN, ERC Sinotype project, CRLAO, EHESS , Paris«The analysis of Demonstrative + Classifier constructions in the Shangshui dialect (Central Plains Mandarin) »18 November 2010Sing Sing NGAI 倪星星, ERC Sinotype project, CRLAO, EHESS , Paris« The classifier ge in the Shaowu dialect in western Fujian: its properties and multi-functionality »  (试论闽西邵武方言的量词 ‘ 个 ’与其多功能性)22 November 2010Hilary CHAPPELL 曹茜蕾, ERC Sinotype project, CRLAO, EHESS , Paris « Cyclic change in Sinitic classifier systems: the case of Gaofeng Xiang (Hunan) »  汉语量词系统的循环演变 –以湘西高峰乡话为例Last week of November, 2010:Most members of the ERC Sinotype team departed for Shanghai to attend and present papers at the 5th International Conference on Chinese Dialect Grammar 第五届汉语方言语法国际学术研讨会held at Shanghai University from 27—29 November 2010. Following the conference,  team members undertook a second set of field trips or took part in other conferences and workshops.