
Chinfa Lien, PhD
Emeritus Professor
National Tsing Hua University
Research Interests
Chinese LinguisticsSouthern Min Grammar
Diachronic Grammar
Dialectology


Latest publications
A Glimpse of Sibilant Shift in Early Modern Spanish in Seventeenth-century through the lens of Hokkien Sinographs. In Holm, David (ed) Vernacular Chinese-Character Manuscripts from East and Southeast Asia, 37-54. Berlin: De Gruyter.
多元語言生態研究:語言的傳播交流適應和全球在地化。刊於蘇嘉宏(主編) 西班牙時代的艾爾摩莎, 301-337. 十二月 高雄市 : 國家海洋研究院 ISBN 978-626-7280-85-0.
The Role of The Copula "是SI7" in The Construal of Focus Structure in Early Southern Min. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 51.3. 611-655. October. ISSN 0091-3723
Variation of Southern Min Based on the 17th Century Spanish-Hokkien Dictionary: Patterns of Rime Groups in the Colloquial Stratum. In Kong, Jiangping, Gang, Peng, Zhongwei, Shen and Feng, Wang (eds.) Inspirations from a Lofty Mountain— Festschrift in Honor of Professor William S-Y. Wang on his 90th Birthday. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.