About Me

I am a Ph.D. student in linguistics at the University of Freiburg. Meanwhile, I am a research assistant of the Emmy-Noether Projekt Bayesian Modelling of Spatial Typology. I am intersted in linguistic typology, functional linguistics and social linguistics. My doctoral dissertation aims to apply Bayesian statistical models to model language contact in Austronesian languages in Taiwan.

Publications

Dissertations

Lin, I-Ying (2021). Topic and Topic Position in China Coast Pidgin [洋涇浜英語的主題] [MA dissertation, National Chengchi University]. (Best Master's Thesis Award, National Chengchi University)

Conference Presentations

Lin, I-Ying (25-26.November.2022). The invisibility of minority languages in the indigenous linguistic landscapes of Taiwan: The case of Bunun [Conference presentation]. 16th Annual Conference on Asian Studies (ACAS): Bodies, Gender, Identities, Palacký University Olomouc, Virtual.

Lin, I-Ying (25-26.November.2022). Language as a proxy-battlefield in cross-strait relations: The discourse analysis of political correctness [Conference presentation]. 16th Annual Conference on Asian Studies (ACAS): Bodies, Gender, Identities, Palacký University Olomouc, Virtual.

Lin, I-Ying & Tjaugadu, Rangalu (13.October.2022). Shaping Political Ideologies via Signs: Comparing the Semiosis of “Nation” between East and West [Conference presentation]. Semiotic Society of America 2022 Conference, Virtual.

Lin, I-Ying (27-28.May.2022). Revealing the Cantonese Influence on the Information Structure of China Coast Pidgin [Conference presentation]. The 6th Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics (WICL-6), The Ohio State University, Virtual.

Lin, I-Ying (29-31.October.2019). Swearing Lost its Negative Pragmatics: A Contrastive Analysis of Swear Words between Taiwanese Mandarin and American English [Conference presentation]. 26th LIPP Symposium: “Sex, Death & Politic: Taboos in Language”, University of Munich, Munich, Germany.

Lin, I-Ying (11-12.August.2018). Memory determined by schemata: A Psycholinguistic analysis of the effect of culture- and schemata on the reproductive competences of people from East and West [Conference poster presentation]. Concepts in Action: Representations, Learning and Application (CARLA), University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany.