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Professor Yuming LI

Research of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics

Professor Yuming LI

Director of Administration Dept. of Chinese Language and Information in Ministry of Education
Vice-Chairman of the State Language Commission
Standing director of Chinese Linguistic Association

	1994, a governmental prize of Hubei Province was awarded to him for his distinguished contribution as a young and middle-aged expert and has received governmental allowances.
	1996, National Women's Federation and National Education Committee awarded him labor prize of Hubei Province and national parental prize respectively.
	1997, the national labor medal was awarded to him.
	2000, he was chosen as a trans-century talent.

Research
                           publications:
                              books
                              papers:
                                        1980-1989 /1990-1999/
                                        2000-2005 /2006 /2007/
                                        2008

                           research area overviews:
                              Modern Chinese Language Studies
                              Linguistic Theories
                              Child Linguistics
                                     (or Developmental Linguistics)
                              Language Planning
　

Personal Statement

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Teaching      Modern Chinese Language Studies
                            An Introduction to Linguistics
                            Psycholinguistics
                            Child Linguistics (or Developmental Linguistics)
                            Contemporary Linguistics
                            Sociolinguistics
                            History of Western Linguistics
                            Theory and Schools of Linguistics

There are three steps as we are pursuing our studies: like a silkworm, a pupa, and a moth. The silkworm, eating mulberry leaf “insatiably” day and night, sleeps, exuviates, grows longer and thicker and eats again. It then sleeps, exuviates, grows and eats once more and more…However, silkworm is not a small worm, but a “king worm”, possessing strong ambition, which is to be realized not by merely eating and sleeping all day long, but by spinning and forming cocoon then turning into pupa. At length, it has to break the cocoon and turns into a moth with spreading wings. The moth is a worm which has its own inside. We should follow the silkworm, accumulating the academic nutrition “insatiably”. However, being just a silkworm makes us confined to books. Thus we need to be consistent with pupa, engrossed in learning and pursuing the truth in our studies. Yet being only the pupa makes us bookworms; therefore we have to follow a moth, “extending ourselves” to expert in a special academic field after the process of accumulation.

——Li Yuming

From Preface to A Study of the Verbs in Modern Chinese Used Directly as Attributives.

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