Wenze Hu

Ph. D. Ohio State University

Assistant Professor, Languages and Cultures Department, US Naval Academy

Academic Field: Chinese syntax (cognition-based functional grammar), pragmatics, and socio-linguistics

2006-                -Assistant Professor, US Naval Academy

1999-2006                -Preceptor in Chinese, Harvard University

1996-1999        -Instructor in Chinese, Harvard University

1995                  -Ph. D, Ohio State University

1987-1995         -Graduate Student,  Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Ohio State University

 Main Academic Activities:

 2008. The Uneven Distribution of Semantic Focus Among Ba-Sentences. In Marjorie K. M. Chan and Hana Kang (ed.), Proceedings of the 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, 2. 665-674.  The Ohio State University. 

2007. “On Wangwang, Changchang, and Other Frequency Related Expressions in Chinese. Journal of Chinese Teachers Association, 42:3, pp. 1-19. 

2007. Intermediate Chinese I, II: When in China. Higher Education Press. Beijing China. Co-authored with Shengli Feng et al. 

2007. Elementary Chinese I, II Renmin University Press. Beijing, China. Co-edited with Baozhang He. Co-authored with Baozhang He et al. 

2005.  “New Trend in the Teaching of Written Chinese.” In New Developments in the Teaching of Written Chinese. Co-authored with Shengli Feng. Beijing Language University Press.

 2005. The New Trend and New Thinking  in the Teaching of Written Chinese.  Co-Edited with Shengli Feng.  Beijing Language University Press. 

 2005.  “Revisiting the Grammatical Meaning of the Ba-construction.”  Studies in Language and Linguistics. Vol 25, No2.

 2004. “Cognition-based Functional Account of Presentative Sentences and the Paratactic Construction.” Leading article in Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies.  July 1-13.  Beijing, China.

 2000. Proceedings of the 11th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. Co-compiled with Baozhang He.  Cambridge, Harvard University. 

1999. “Pre-Noun Modifier Vs. Descriptive Clause: A Cognition-Based Functional Account” In Proceedings of IACL-7/NACCL-10. 

1998. “A Cognition-Based Functional Account of Variations in the Use of Classifiers in Chinese.” In Proceedings of the 9th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL). Volume 2. Edited by Hua Lin.  Los Angeles, CA: GSIL Publications, University of Southern California. 137-147.  Co-authored with Sue-Mei Wu.

1996. "Iconicity in Presentative Sentences." In Proceedings of the 7th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL) and the 4th International Conference on Chinese Linguistics (ICCL). Volume 1. Edited by Tsai Fa Cheng, Yafei Li and Hongming Zhang. Los Angeles, CA: GSIL Publications, University of Southern California. 121-150.

1995.  "Verbal Semantics of Presentative Sentences."  Studies in Language and Linguistics. no. 2.

1994. “Chinese Syntactic Study from a Different Perspective.”  Chinese Linguistic Research Overseas.  Edited by Feng Shi.  Beijing: Yuwen Press, 163-175.

1991. "Functional Motivations for the So-called `Inverted Sentences' in Beijing Conversational Discourse." Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association. Vol.XXVI:no.3.  Co-authored with James Tai.

Invited Talks:

“Presentative Sentences: A Case study with a Cognition-based Functional Approach.” Eastern China Normal University, Shanghai, June 2009.

Presentative Sentences: An Iconic Reflection of the Chinese Conceptual Structure. The 2007 PSLC Chinese LearnLab Symposium, Carnegie Mellon University, October 19, 2007, Pittsburgh, PA.

Award:

Certificate of Distinction in Teaching. Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. Harvard University.