Time

Event

9.30 – 10.00

Registration

10.00 – 11.00

Binding Relations in Mashan Zhuang: Fieldnotes from Guangxi

Adams BODOMO

Organizer, International Workshop on Zhuang Language,

Department of Linguistics, the University of Hong Kong

11.00 – 11.10

Break

11.10 – 11.55

Zhuang and the Tai Substrate in Cantonese Grammar

Stephen MATTHEWS

Department of Linguistics, the University of Hong Kong

11.55 – 12.40

A Preliminary Survey of the Classifiers in Zhuang

Olivia S.-C. LAM

Department of Linguistics, the University of Hong Kong

12.40 – 14.00

Lunch

14.00 – 15.00

Invited Talk: A Comparison of the Graphical Conventions in the

Written Representation of Zhuang and Cantonese

Prof. Robert S. BAUER

Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

15.00 – 15.20

Tea Break

15.20 – 16.05

A Typological Sketch of Selected Number Systems: Zhuang, Thai, Lao, Vietnamese, Southern Chinese Dialects and African languages

SYE Sui Kam

Department of Politics and Public Administration, the University of Hong Kong

16.05 – 16.50

Asking Questions in Zhuang

GAO Hua

Department of Linguistics, the University of Hong Kong

16.50 – 17.05

Closing Speech

Adams BodomO

Organizer, International Workshop on Zhuang Language,

Department of Linguistics, the University of Hong Kong