Dr. Linlin Sun

 Dr. Linlin Sun

Research Interest

My research areas include language typology, historical linguistics, corpus linguistics and cognitive linguistics, with a special interest in grammaticalization, parts of speech, lexical flexibility, sentence processing, polysemy, metaphor and metonymy. I have carried out studies using neurophysiological (ERP technique) and corpus-based quantitative approaches, mostly with an interdisciplinary research focus (see my publication list below).

Education and scientific career

  • Since April 2016: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Department of English and Linguistics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
  • July 2014 – September 2015: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Department of English and Linguistics, JGU.
  • 2015/2016: Doctor of Philosophy (summa cum laude), JGU. PhD thesis: Flexibility in the parts-of speech system of Classical Chinese.
  • May 2012 – June 2014: Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft, Department of English and Linguistics, JGU.
  • 2011: Magister (HF: Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, NF: Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, NF: Ethnologie), JGU. Magister Thesis: A neurophysiological investigation of the Chinese reflexive ziji
  • November 2009 – May 2011: Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft, Department of English and Linguistics (Neurolinguistics lab), JGU.

Research project (last five years)

From 2016 to 2020, I participated in the research project “Cross-linguistic variation in grammaticalization processes and areal patterns of grammaticalization”, known as the MAGRAM (see https://en.magram.fb05.uni-mainz.de/ for more information such as Database and Methodology). This is a project founded by German Research Foundation (German: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.

Teaching experience (selected seminars)

  • Strukturen ostasiatischer Sprachen (BA study seminar)
  • Sprachliche Strukturen (MA study seminar)
  • Sprachtypologische Vertiefung: Epistemic modality and Evidentiality (MA study seminar)
  • Sprachtypologische Vertiefung: Grammatikalisierung und das Lexikon-Grammatik Kontinuum (MA study seminar)
  • Sprachtypologische Vertiefung: Wort und Satz (MA study seminar)

Publication

  • Sun, Linlin & R. Muralikrishnan. Forthcoming. Play it by ear? An ERP study of Chinese polysemous verb yŏu. Lingua.
  • Sun, Linlin & David Correia Saavedra. 2020. Measuring grammatical status in Chinese through quantitative corpus analysis. Corpora 15 (3), 317–342.
  • Sun, Linlin. 2020. Flexibility in the parts-of-speech system of Classical Chinese. (Trends in Linguistics). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
  • Sun, Linlin & Kasper Boye. 2019. The grammatical-lexical distinction in Chinese aspectual markers. Studies in Language 43 (3), 688-714.
  • Sun, Linlin & Walter Bisang. 2020. Grammaticalization changes in Chinese. In Bisang, W. & A. Malchukov (eds.), Grammaticalization Scenarios: Cross-Linguistic Variation and Universal Tendencies (2 vol.), 609–658. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
  • Bisang, Walter, Andrej Malchukov, Iris Rieder, Linlin Sun, Marvin Martiny & Svenja Lüll. 2020. Position paper: Universal and areal patterns in grammaticalization. In Bisang, W. & A. Malchukov (eds.), Grammaticalization Scenarios: Cross-Linguistic Variation and Universal Tendencies (2 vol.), 1–88. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
  • Bisang, Walter, Andrej Malchukov, Iris Rieder & Linlin Sun. 2020. Measuring Grammaticalization: A Questionnaire. In Bisang, W. & A. Malchukov (eds.), Grammaticalization Scenarios: Cross-Linguistic Variation and Universal Tendencies (2 vol.), 89–104. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
  • Sun, Linlin. 2015. Flexibility in the parts-of-speech system of Classical Chinese: An empirical research based on six Classical Chinese texts. Mainz, Germany: University of Mainz dissertation.
  • Schumacher, Petra B., Walter Bisang & Linlin Sun. 2011. Perspective in the Processing of the Chinese Reflexive ziji: ERP Evidence. In Hendrickx, I., S. Lalitha Devi, A. Branco & R. Mitkov (eds.), Anaphora Processing and Applications, 7099, 119-131. Heidelberg: Springer.

Conference presentation

  • 9/2019. Bisang, Walter, Andrej Malchukov, Linlin Sun, Iris Rieder, Marvin Martiny, Svenja Lüll & Arne Nagels. 2019. Cross-linguistic trends in grammaticalization scenarios: a preliminary quantitative assessment. Conference: The 13th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT), Pavia, Italy.
  • 9/2017. Sun, Linlin & David Correia Saavedra. 2017. Measuring Grammaticalization in Chinese. Conference: The 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), Zürich, Swiss.
  • 3/2017. Sun, Linlin. 2017. Flexibility in the parts-of-speech system of Classical Chinese. Conference: Typologie und Feldforschung: Vielfaltslinguistik. Leipzig, Deutschland.
  • 9/2015. Sun, Linlin & Walter Bisang. 2015. Basic word order and precategoriality in classical Chinese — new evidence for SVO. Conference: The 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), Leiden, The Netherlands.
  • 9/2014. Sun, Linlin & Walter Bisang. 2014. Precategoriality in classical Chinese between Construction Grammar and metaphor. Conference: The 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europae (SLE), at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.
  • 10/2011. Schumacher, Petra B. & Linlin Sun. Perspective in the Processing of the Chinese Reflexive ziji: ERP Evidence. Conference: The 8th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC), Faro, Portugal.