Hongyuan Dong

• Chinese Semantics
• History of the Chinese Language 
• Language Policy of China 
• Chinese Sociolinguistics
• Introduction to Chinese Linguistics
• Introduction to Classical Chinese
• Language courses on all levels

J. Liu, H. Dong, J. Yuan, H. Ma & A. She. 2024.  Linguistic tone in Chinese rap: an interdisciplinary approach. Journal of New Music Research. DOI: 10.1080/09298215.2024.2329075  

Dong, H. 2023. Language ideology and order in rising China by Minglang Zhou (review article). Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 44:2, pp. 167-169. First published online in May 2021.

Dong, H. 2022. Temporal partitions in the grammaticalization of imperfective aspect markers: A formal semantic approach. Language and Linguistics 23:2, pp.191-211. DOI: 10.1075/lali.00103.don

Dong, H. 2021. A Phonological History of Chinese by Zhongwei Shen (review article). Language. 97(3): 648-651. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2021.0053

Dong, H. 2020. A history of the Chinese language, Second Edition. New York, NY and Abingdon, UK: Routledge.  

Dong, H. 2019. Semantics of Chinese questions: An interface approach, in The Routledge Studies in Chinese Linguistics. New York, NY and Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Dong, H. 2018 A semantic analysis of –ne as a topic marker: A grammaticalization perspective. Proceedings of the 30th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-30), vol 2, pp. 472-489, eds. Y. Zhu, et al. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University.  [download pdf]

Dong, H. 2017. Language policy, dialect writing and linguistic diversity. Proceedings of The 29th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-29). Vol. 2, pp. 463-480. [download pdf]

Dong, H. 2016. An LFG analysis of pronominal binding in Mandarin Chinese. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, Vol. 1, Article 2:1-15. 

Dong, H. 2016. Teaching linguistics to supplement the implementation of the five Cs. Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages , Vol 18, pp. 1-24.

Dong, H. 2015. Chinese: A Linguistic Introduction by Chaofen Sun (review article). Chinese as a Second Language: The Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association , Vol 50, No. 3, pp. 95-100. 

Dong, H. 2015. Musicality meets tonality: A Tonal Congruence Index (ITG) for Chinese vocal music. Proceedings of the 27th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-27), eds. Hongyin Tao et al. Vol 2, pp. 322-339. [download pdf]

Dong, H. 2014. A history of the Chinese language. New York, NY and Abingdon, UK: Routledge. (Note there is a newer version of this book)

Dong, H. 2007.  The Semantics of Wh-Questions with the verbal "how" in Mandarin. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Amsterdam Colloquium, eds. Maria Aloni, Paul Dekker, and Floris Roelofsen. Amsterdam, the Netherlands, pp. 67-72.

Y. Shen (沈阳), & H. Dong (董红源). 2005. “直接统治”与第三人称代词“他”的句内所指规则 (Direct C-Command and the Intra-sentential Co-reference Rules of 3rd Person Pronoun "ta" in Chinese), in 汉语语法研究的新拓展2 (New Explorations in the Research of Chinese Grammar Vol 2), edited by Jingmin Shao and Jingguang Lu, Zhejiang Education Publishing House, Hangzhou, China.

Y. Shen (沈阳), & H. Dong (董红源). 2004. (co-authored with Yang Shen 沈阳) “直接统制”与“他”的句内所指规则 (Direct C-Command and the Intrasentential Co-reference Rules of 3rd Person Pronoun “ta” in Chinese). 中国语文 (Studies of the Chinese Language), 1:16-29, Beijing, China. 

Ph.D. in Linguistics, Cornell University

MA in Chinese Linguistics, Peking University

BA in English, Nankai University