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UM student Dong Sicong receives

the 2nd prize of Young Scholars Award.

At the sixth International Conference on Contemporary Chinese Grammar, which was held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, from 3 December to 4 December, 2011, Dong Sicong, a PhD student of the Department of Chinese, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Macau (UM), presented his paper Grammatical Research in “Nanguai(難怪)” Related Expressions in Chongqing Dialect, in his capacity as a fully-sponsored scholar, and received the second prize of Young Scholars Award.

The sixth International Conference on Contemporary Chinese Grammar was hosted by the Chinese Language Center and the Center for General Education, I-Shou University, and hit a new high in terms of the number of participants. This is the first time the conference has been held in Taiwan. Dong Sicong submitted his paper in April and successfully obtained a full sponsorship. Through paper presentation and discussion, Dong Sicong received the second prize of Young Scholars Award.

The International Conference on Contemporary Chinese Grammar was formerly known as the Conference on Contemporary Chinese Grammar, which was launched in September 1986. Its members are mostly experts on modern Chinese grammar trained after 1978. It is one of China’s top two academic conferences in the field of Chinese grammar, and it was renamed its current name in order to enhance the ties between Chinese and overseas experts in the field. The core group members include Peking University, Fudan University, Jinan University, Central China Normal University, Shanghai Normal University, Zhejiang Normal University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and the City University of Hong Kong.
 

Should you have any query, please feel free to contact Ms. Albee Lei at(853)8397 4325 or albeelei@um.edu.mo or visit UM webpage www.umac.mo.