Doctor, Professor

Department of Linguistics,

Faculty of English Language and Culture

Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

Educational Background:

Master of Theoretical Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison;

Doctor of Theoretical Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Research Area:

Theoretical linguistics, Syntax, Semantics

Contact information:

Chen_zhe0825@126.com

Work Experience:

2018-02-2019.05 Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of English language and culture, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

2019-05-2023.04 Lecturer, Associate Professor, Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

2023-04- Associate Professor, Professor, Chair of Department of Linguistics, Faculty of English language and culture, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

Academic Service

(1) Academic Affiliation: Vice Secretary-General and Executive Director of the Formal Linguistics Committee of the Chinese and English Comparative Linguistics Association.

(2) Journal Reviewer: SSCI Journals (Journal of Linguistics、Syntax、Journal of Chinese Linguistics, etc) and CSSCI journals (Modern Foreign Languages, Contemporary Linguistics, Chinese Language Communication, etc.)

Funded Project:

(1) Guangdong Provincial Philosophy and Social Science Planning Youth Project: "A Study on the Syntactic Realization Mechanism of Boundary Categories in Chinese from the Perspective of Event Structure Theory." 2023. (Host, ongoing)

(2) Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Sciences Fund Youth Project: "A Study on the Syntactic Combination Mechanism of Boundary Categories in English and Chinese." 2022. (Host, completed)

(3) National Social Science Fund General Project: "A Study on Information Structure in Children's Language in Chinese." 2021. (Participant, ongoing)

(4) National Social Science Fund Major Project: "Research on Chinese within Generative Grammar and Innovation of Chinese Grammatical Theory in the New Era." 2018. (Participant, ongoing)

(5) National Social Science Major Fund Project: "Research on Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms of Language Development in Children, Clinical Applications, and Database Construction." 2023. (Participant, ongoing)

(6) National Social Science Major Fund Project: "Research on Formal Semantics in Chinese and Innovation of Formal Semantics Theory." 2022. (Participant, ongoing)

Representative Publication:

(1) "From the Redefinition of Bare Roots to the Theoretical Construction of Light Verbs." 2023. Modern Foreign Languages (6): 731-743. (First Author, CSSCI indexed)

(2) "Examining the Nature of Close Conditions through the Blocking Effect of Adverbial Modifiers in English and Chinese." 2023. Foreign Language Teaching and Research (1): 16-27. (Sole Author, CSSCI indexed)

(3) "Exploring the Low Applicative." 2023. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 53(1). (Corresponding Author, SSCI, A&HCI indexed)

(4) "A Probe-Goal Approach to the Minimality Effect in the Chinese Modifier V-de Construction." 2022. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 50(1): 62-102. (Sole Author, SSCI, A&HCI indexed)

(5) "Bipartite Agentivity Expression in Chinese Passives." 2021. Syntax 24(1): 123-141. (First Author, JCR Q2, SSCI, A&HCI indexed)

(6) "The Hypothesis of Topic Argument Assignment Consistency: Questions and Reflections." 2021. Foreign Language Teaching and Research (1): 3-15. (First Author, CSSCI indexed, reprinted in Renmin University Copy Materials)

(7) "New Issues and Advances in the Study of Segments." 2021. Modern Foreign Languages (4): 576-585. (First Author, CSSCI indexed)

(8) "What Can Biolinguistics Learn from Biology?" 2018. Foreign Language Teaching and Research (5): 323-341. (Second Author, CSSCI indexed)

(9) "A Perspective on vP from the Chinese Language." 2016. Foreign Language Teaching and Research (4): 483-497. (First Author, CSSCI indexed, reprinted in Renmin University Copy Materials)

Prize:

(1) University-level Undergraduate Excellent Teaching Award, Third prize, 2018

(2) University-level Scientific Research Performance Award, Second prize, 2020

(3) University-level Scientific Research Performance Award, Second prize, 2021

(4) University-level Undergraduate Excellent Teaching Award, Third prize, 2021

(5) University-level Undergraduate Excellent Teaching Award, Second prize, 2022

(6) University-level Scientific Research Performance Award, Third prize, 2023

(7) University-level Undergraduate Excellent Teaching Award, First prize, 2023

Teaching courses:

Undergrads: Advanced communicative English, Analytical reading,

Syntax, Advanced Syntax

Grads: Introduction to Syntax