Faculty of Arts Asia Institute

Curriculum Vitae

Dr Yunji Wu


Professional Address

Asia Institute
The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010, Australia

Tel: +61 3 8344 4956
Fax: +61 3 9349 4870
Email: yunjiw@unimelb.edu.au

Degrees, Qualifications

1993 Ph.D. Department of Linguistics and Language Studies, The University of Melbourne
Thesis Title: Chinese Lexicology: Investigation into the Xiang Dialect
1976 B.A. Chinese Language and Literature, Department of Chinese, Hunan Normal University, China

Career, Principal Offices, Principal Positions Held

2000 - Senior Lecturer, Asia Institute
Feb 1995 - 1999 Lecturer, Asia Institute
Mar 1992 - Feb 1995 Lecturer, Department of Japanese and Chinese, The University of Melbourne
Aug 1976 - Dec 1986 Tutor/lecturer in Chinese Language and Chinese Literature, Department of Chinese, Hunan Normal University, China

Research Interests

Principal Publications

Sole-authored monograph

  1. The Development of Aspectual Systems in the Xiang Dialects-China. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France, 1999, 247 pp.
  2. A synchronic and diachronic study of the grammar of the Chinese Xiang dialects. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2005.
  3. Xiang fangyan dongtai zhuci de xitong jiqi yanbian [The development of aspectual systems in the Chinese-Xiang dialects]. Changsha: Hunan Normal University Press. (Translation. My English version was published in 1999 by Collection des CALAO. École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France, 2006.

Sole-edited monographs

  1. The Aspectual Markers in Hunan Dialects. Changsha: Hunan Normal University Press, 1996, 479 pp. (In Chinese.)
  2. Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on Grammar of Sinitic Languages. Guangzhou: Jinan University Press, 1998, 309 pp. (In Chinese.)
  3. The Coverbs in the Hunan Dialects. Changsha: Hunan Normal University Press, 1998, 351 pp. (In Chinese.)
  4. The Pronouns in the Hunan Dialects. Changsha: Hunan Normal University Press, 2000. (In Chinese.)
  5. Hunan fangyan de yuqici (ed.). [Modal particles in the Hunan dialects]. Changsha : Hunan Normal University Press. 2006

Co-authored monograph

  1. Study of the Changsha Dialect. Changsha: Hunan Jiaoyu Publishing House, 1999, 374 pp.. (In Chinese.)

Co-authored dictionaries

  1. Dictionary of Single Characters with Chinese Dialect Pronunciation (2nd edition), Beijing: Language Reform Publishing House, 1989. (In Chinese.)
  2. Dictionary of the Changsha Dialect. Nanjing: Jiangsu Publishing House, 1993. (In Chinese.)
  3. Dictionary of Vocabulary in Chinese Dialects, (2nd edition). Beijing: Language Reform Publishing House, 1994. (In Chinese.)
  4. Dictionary of the Changsha Dialect. Nanjing: Jiansu Jiaouyu Publishing House (2nd edition.), 1999. (In Chinese.)

Sole-authored sections in books

  1. ''The Development of Gender Markers for Animal Terms'' in Chinese Linguistics Overseas, Shi Feng (ed.), Beijing: Chinese Language Publishing House, 1995, pp. 111-122. (In Chinese.)
  2. ''Opposition and Complementarity of the perfect markers kata and kelai in the Changsha Dialect" in Aspectual Systems in Chinese Dialect, Zhang Shuangqing (ed.), The T T Ng Chinese Language Research Centre, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 1996, pp. 114-124. (In Chinese.)
  3. "A Study of Aspectual Systems in Chinese" in The Aspectual Markers in the Hunan Dialects, Yunji Wu (ed.), Changsha: Hunan Normal University Press, 1996, pp. 1-16. (In Chinese.)
  4. ''The Aspectual System of the Changsha Dialect" in The Aspectual Markers in the Hunan Dialects, Yunji Wu (ed.), Changsha: Hunan Normal University Press, 1996, pp. 194-231. (In Chinese.)
  5. "The role of the phonetic component plays in the process of grammaticalization" in Synchronic and Diachronic Perspective on Grammar of Sinitic Languages, Yunji Wu (ed.), Guangzhou: Jinan University Press, 1998, pp. 280-304. (In Chinese.)
  6. "Some thoughts caused by the passive markers in Hunan dialects" in The Coverbs in the Hunan Dialects, Yunji Wu (ed.), Changsha: Hunan Normal University Press, 1998, pp. 1-14. (In Chinese.)
  7. "Aspect markers KA and TA in the Changsha Dialect" in Studia Linguistica Strica, Benjamin K T'sou (ed). Hongkong: Language Information Sciences Research Centre , City University of Hongkong, 1998, pp. 191-208.
  8. ''A Study of Phonological Features of the Waxiang Dialect'' in Li Fang Kuei Memorial Volume, Pang Hsin Ting and Anne Yue-Hashimoto (ed.), Taiwan: Academia Sinica. (In Chinese.) 2000, pp 349-366.
  9. ''The Development of Locative Markers in the Xiang-Changsha Dialect'' in Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on the Grammar of Sinitic Languages, Hilary Chappell (ed.), Oxford University Press. 2001, pp 31-55.
  10. "A Further Study on the Gender Markers of Animal Terms in the Hunan Dialects" in Social Science Institute (eds). Essay Collections for the 50-year Anniversary of Zhongguo Yuwen. Beijing: Commerical Press; 159-166.
  11. "Etymology of Aspectual marker [ti] in the Southern Hunan Dialects" in Bao Houxing (eds). Studies on the Local dialects in Southern Hunan, 278 – 285. Changsha, China: Hunan Normal University Press. 278-285.
  12. "A hypothesis of the development of attributive particles in the Hunan dialects". In Li Fang Kuei Memorial Volume, edited by Pang-hsin Ting & A-Y. Hashimoto, pp. 341-370. Taipei: Academia Sinica. 2005.
  13. "Hunan fangyan foudingju zhong de yuqici [Modal particles in the negative sentences in the Hunan dialects]". In Yunji Wu (ed.) Hunan fangyan de yuqici (ed.). [Modal particles in the Hunan dialects], pp. 345-362. Changsha : Hunan Normal University Press. 2006.
  14. "The Evolution of Negative Forms in the Hunan Waxiang Dialects". In Dah-an Ho, H.Samuel Cheung, Wuyun Pan, and Fuxiang Wu (ed.) Linguistics Studies in Chinese and Neighbouring Languages: festschrift in honour of professor Pang-Hsin Ting on his 70th birthday. Taibei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica. 2006.

Co-authored section in book

  1. "Chinese Linguistics in Australia'' in Chinese Linguistics Overseas, Shi Feng (ed.), Beijing: Chinese Language Publishing House, 1995, pp. 228-250. (In Chinese.)

Sole-authored papers

  1. ''The Standardization and Beautification of Speech in the Changsha Flower-Drum Opera''. Hunan Drama, No. 5, 1981, pp. 84-95. (In Chinese.)
  2. ''The Conservative Nature of the Pronunciation of Dialect Words''. Journal of Xiangtan University (Special Issue on the Hunan Dialect), 1983, pp. 34-39. (In Chinese.)
  3. ''The Hunan Dialects in County Annals''. Journal of Hunan Normal University (Special Issue on the Hunan Dialect), 1985, pp. 151-162. (In Chinese.)
  4. ''Some Patterns of Historical Sound Change: A case study of variety in form in the Changsha dialect''. Phonological Research (rev, ed.), No. 2., Beijing: Zhonghua Press, 1985, pp. 277-289. (In Chinese.)
  5. ''Cross-Code Interactions in the Changsha Dialect''. Current Issues in Sino-Tibetan Linguistics, Hajime Kitamura, Tatsuo Nishida and Yasuhiko Nagano (ed.), The Organizing Committee, The 26th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, Osaka, 1993, pp. 452-457.
  6. ''The Aspect markers in the Changsha Dialect''. Fangyan, 3, 1994, pp. 218-220. (In Chinese.)
  7. "An Etymological Study of the Disposal and Passive Markers in Hunan Dialects". Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Vol. 27, No. 2, 1999, pp. 90-123.
  8. "The Development of [DZ+V] and [V+DZ] Constructions in the Hunan Dialects". Yuyan Yanjiu, 2001 3:46-59.
  9. "The Old Layer of the Personal and Demonstrative Pronoun system and Its Development in the Hunan Dialects". Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 2002, pp. 310-342.
  10. "A preliminary study on the development of nominalizer and diminutive suffixes in the Hunan dialects" 2002 in Studies in Chinese Linguistics 14: 47-62.

Co-authored papers

  1. ''Some Problems in the Compiling of the Dictionary of the Changsha Dialect'', Journal of Hunan Normal University, 1983, pp. 18-24. (In Chinese.)
  2. ''Vocabulary of the Changsha Dialect''. Journal of Xiangtan University (Special Issue on the Hunan Dialect), 1983, pp. 3-22. (In Chinese.)
  3. ''An Outline of the Yuanling County Dialect'', Journal of Hunan Normal University (Special Issue on the Hunan Dialect), 1985, pp. 40-66. (In Chinese.)
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