我的研究領域為形式語意學及其與語用學、(形態)句法之介面。我特別關注意義組成的跨語言變異。我的研究結合理論分析與田野調查，並致力於發展多元的方法論以探究語言使用者的語感判斷。主要調查語言為泰雅語，亦從事布農語與排灣語之研究。我的研究涵蓋語意學及其介面中的多項議題，包括時貌、時制性、情態、語氣、反事實、疑問句偏向性、話語助詞、證據性、否定、wh 疑問詞與不定詞、量化、主題性以及名詞語意。

• 2019-2~ 本所助研究員
• 2023-8~2027-7 國立清華大學語言學研究所兼任助理教授
• 2024-2~2024-9 國立台灣師範大學進修推廣中心任助理教授
• 2022-1~2022-6 國立清華大學台灣語言研究與教育研究所兼任助理教授
• 2020-8~2021-1 國立清華大學台灣語言研究與教育研究所兼任助理教授
• 2019-4~2022-7 原住民族語言新竹學習中心講師

• 泰雅語的wh問句、反詰問句與wh範疇不確定詞研究(2030跨世代年輕學者方案–優秀年輕學者計畫), Aug. 1, 2025–Jul. 31, 2027
• 反事實條件句語意組成與語氣探討：從幾個台灣南島語出發, Sept. 1, 2024–May 31, 2026
• 泰雅語否定詞iyat和ini'的句法和語意差異與啟示, Aug. 1, 2023–Feb. 28, 2025
• 泰雅語的偏向性問句與跨語言比較, Aug. 1, 2022–Dec. 31, 2023
• 泰雅語語尾助詞的形式特質以及跨台灣南島語的比較研究, Aug. 1, 2020–Jun. 30, 2023
• 泰雅語和布農語時制與動貌系統之議題研究, July 1, 2019–Jun. 30, 2020

• 2026 X-marking in Atayal counterfactual conditionals: From past marking to an obligatory modal. Paper to be presented at the 33th Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, June 23–25, 2026.
• 2025 A language with multiple tenses: Evidence from Vernacular Atayalic Japanese. Paper presented at the 12th edition of the TripleA Workshop for Semantic Fieldworkers, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan, Sept. 10–12. (joint work with Gan-ling Tan)
• 2025 Reanalyzing Mandarin ba (吧) as an inferential evidential. Research talk during an academic visit to the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan, Jun. 4.
• 2024 A new analysis of the sentence-final particle ba (吧) in Mandarin. Talk at the invitation-only 15th Workshop on Formal Syntax and Semantics, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, Oct. 12–13.
• 2023 External and internal negation in Atayal and a cross-linguistic comparison. Talk at the invitation-only NTHU Linguistics Forum, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Nov. 11.
• 2023 Towards the semantics of Atayal polar question particles and a semantic typology. Keynote talk at the 10th edition of the TripleA Workshop for Semantic Fieldworkers. University of Potsdam, Germany, Jun. 7–9 (via Zoom).
• 2023 Modality in elicited data and spontaneous texts: A case study of Atayal (an update). Talk at the invitation-only Workshop on Modality in Underdescribed Languages. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, Apr. 20–22 (via Zoom).
• 2022 Bias in Mandarin polar questions: An acceptability judgment study. Talk at the invitation-only 14th Workshop on Formal Syntax and Semantics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Oct. 21–22.
• 2022 The landscape of Atayal final particles: A focus on question particles. Talk at the invitation-only Yunshan Linguistic Salon, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Oct. 15. (via Google Meet)
• 2021 Variable force modals in Amis. Paper presented by co-author Tingchun Chen (keynote speaker) at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association & The 9th edition of the TripleA Workshop for Semantic Fieldworkers, University of Manchester, UK, Jun. 28–Jul. 1. (joint work with Tingchun Chen).
• 2020 Counterfactuality and temporal marking in Atayal. Talk at the invitation-only 13th Workshop on Formal Syntax and Semantics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Oct. 16–17.
• 2020 “Iamitives” are discourse markers: Evidence from Bunun. Paper presented at the 12th Annual Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics conference, University of Oslo, Jun. 18–20. (via Zoom; joint work with Haowen Jiang)
• 2019 Atayal C- reduplication as a domain widener. Invited talk at National University of Singapore, Jul. 13.
• 2019 Widening the future: Ca-reduplication in Atayal. Paper presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of Canadian Linguistic Association, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Jun. 1–3
• 2018 Ways of talking about the past: The semantics of -in- and =in in Bunun. Paper presented by co-author Haowen Jiang at the 25th Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, Taipei, Taiwan, May 10–12. (joint work with Haowen Jiang)

• 2025 From fieldwork to theory: Perspectives on (formal) semantic research. Guest lecture at the Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature, National Taiwan Normal University, Nov. 27.
• 2023 Atayal biased polar questions and semantic variation. Talk at the Institute of Linguistics Colloquium, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Oct. 16.
• 2021 Tense and modality in Formosan languages. Guest lecture at the Institute of Taiwan Languages and Language Teaching, National Tsing Hua University Nanda Campus, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Mar. 24.
• 2021 An introduction to the Atayal grammar. Guest lecture at the Institute of Linguistics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Mar. 11.
• 2020 Modality and temporality in Atayal counterfactuals and implications. Talk at the Institute of Linguistics Colloquium, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 21.
• 2020 Update now: Decomposing “iamitive”. Poster displayed at the 38th Meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Mar. 6–8. (joint work with Haowen Jiang).
• 2019 An introduction to the Atayal language. Guest lecture at the Institute of Linguistics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 6.
• 2019 An overview of semantics, contexts and their role in teaching: Examples of some Formosan languages. Guest lecture at the Institute of Taiwan Languages and Language Teaching, National Tsing Hua University Nanda Campus, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Nov. 27.
• 2019 An introduction to the Atayal language. Guest lecture at the Extension Education, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan, Sept. 16.
• 2019 Graded possibility: Distinguishing epistemic modals in Atayal. Poster presented at the GLOW-in-Asia XII and SICOGG XXXI, Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea, Aug. 6–9.

• 共同籌辦人，The 35th Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, June 23–25, 2027
• 共同籌辦人， NINJAL–Sinica Joint Semantic Workshop, Nov. 10., 2026
• 籌備委員，The 5th World Congress of Taiwan Studies, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, May 21–24, 2025
• 籌備委員，The 4th Academia Sinica Linguistics Forum, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Oct. 19–20, 2023
• 籌辦人，The 13th Workshop on Formal Syntax and Semantics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Oct. 16–17, 2020

• Apang Bway（劉芝芳） 賽考利克泰雅語主題性與焦點系統及教學建議 國立清華大學臺灣語言研究與教學研究所碩士論文

• Thành Việt CAO. 2025. Quantification and Plurality at the Interface: the Case of Vietnamese 國立清華大學語言學研究所博士論文
• 林晏羽(Yan-Yu LIN). 2024. 拉勞蘭排灣語的模態系統 國立清華大學臺灣語言研究與教學研究所碩士論文

• 113原住民族語言能力認證測驗試題建置(中高級)，泰雅語六方言

• 113 原住民族語⾔發展基⾦會泰雅語-中高級命題技巧課程
• 109桃園市教育局原住民族語教學支援人員知能研習

• Chen, Sihwei. 2018. Finding semantic building blocks: Temporal and modal interpretation in Atayal. PhD dissertation, University of British Columbia. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0373089. 

• Chen, Sihwei. Forthcoming a. Semantics. In Howard Manns, Alice Gaby, and Anna Margetts (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics, 2nd ed. Routledge. 
• Chen, Sihwei. Forthcoming b. Tense and aspect in Atayal: An overview and prospects for Formosan languages. In The Cambridge Handbook of Temporality in Language (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics), ed. by Seth Cable, Toshiyuki Ogihara and Karen Zagona. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Chen, Sihwei. 2024. External and internal negation and temporal asymmetries in Atayal. In Linguistic Diversity, but Unity in Research: Celebrating the Twentieth Anniversary of the Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, ed. by Elizabeth Zeitoun and Shu-Chuan Tseng, 297–340. Taipei: Academia Sinica. Online: 
• Chen, Sihwei. 2024. Evidence for two types of future semantics by negation. In M. Ryan Bochnak, Eva Csipak, Lisa Matthewson, Marcin Morzycki, and Daniel K. E. Reisinger (eds.), The Title of This Volume Is Shorter Than Its Contributions Are Allowed to Be: Papers in Honour of Hotze Rullmann, 95–108. Vancouver, BC: UBC Occasional Papers in Linguistics. Online: https://lingpapers.sites.olt.ubc.ca/other-volumes/ 
• Chen, Sihwei. 2023. Modality in contextual elicitation and spontaneous texts: A case study of Atayal. In Modality in underdescribed languages: Methods and insights, ed. by Jozina Vander Klok, Núbia Ferreira Rech, and Simone Guesser, 257–293. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. doi:10.1515/9783110721478-008   http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110721478-008
• Chen, Sihwei and Lisa Matthewson. 2023. A sense of time and world. In The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America: A Comprehensive Guide, Vol. 1, ed. by Carmen Dagostino, Marianne Mithun, and Keren Rice, 577–598. The World of Linguistics 13.1. Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. doi:10.1515/9783110600926-025   http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110600926-025
• Chen, Sihwei and Haowen Jiang. 2020. Ways of talking about the past: -in- and =in in Bunun. In Papers from the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 25, ed. by Henry Y. Chang and Hui-chuan J. Huang, 1–21. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society Special Publication No. 5. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. Online: http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52462   https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10524/63143
• Chen, Sihwei. 2018. When the progressive and result state meet: The Atayal cyux/nyux. In Wa7 xweysás i nqwal’utteníha i ucwalmícwa: He loves the people’s languages. Essays in honour of Henry Davis, ed. by Lisa Matthewson, Erin Guntly, and Michael Rochemont, 243–258. Vancouver, BC: UBC Occasional Papers in Linguistics.
• Chen, Sihwei, Vera Hohaus, Rebecca Laturnus, Meagan Louie, Lisa Matthewson, Hotze Rullmann, Ori Simchen, Claire K. Turner, Jozina Vander Klok. 2017. Past possibility cross-linguistically: Evidence from 12 languages. In Ana Arregui, Maria-Luisa Rivero and Andres Salanova (eds.), Modality Across Syntactic Categories, 236-287. Oxford: Oxford University Press. http://10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198718208.001.0001

• Chen Sihwei. 2024. 未來不等於非現實語氣：以幾個台灣南島語為例. Language and Linguistics. 語言暨語言學 28, 3.   https://doi.org/10.1075/lali.00176.che
• Bertrand, Anne, Yurika Aonuki, Sihwei Chen, Henry Davis, Joash Gambarage, Laura Griffin, Marianne Huijsmans, Lisa Matthewson, Daniel Reisinger, Hotze Rullmann, Raiane Salles, Michael David Schwan, Neda Todorović, Bailey Trotter, and Jozina Vander Klok. 2022. Nobody’s perfect. Languages 7(2):148. doi:10.3390/languages7020148   http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages7020148
• Chen, Sihwei, Jozina Vander Klok, Lisa Matthewson, and Hotze Rullmann. 2021. The ‘experiential’ as an existential past: Evidence from Javanese and Atayal. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 39:709–758. doi:10.1007/s11049-020-09488-6   http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11049-020-09488-6
• Matthewson, Lisa, Sihwei Chen, Marianne Huijsmans, Marcin Morzycki, Daniel Reisinger, and Hotze Rullmann. 2019. Restricting the English past tense. Snippets 37:61–64. doi:10.7358/snip-2019-037-mchr   http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-mchr

• Chen, Sihwei. 2024. Towards the semantics of Atayal polar question particles and a semantic typology. In Jeanne Lecavelier, Niklas Geick, Mira Grubic, Prarthanaa Bharadwaj, and Malte Zimmermann (eds.), Proceedings of TripleA 10: Fieldwork Perspectives on the Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages, 123–141. Potsdam, Germany: University of Potsdam. doi:10.25932/publishup-66284
• Chen, Sihwei. 2019. Graded possibility: Distinguishing epistemic modals in Atayal. In Sae-Youn Cho (ed.), Proceedings of the 12th Generative Linguistics in the Old World & the 21st Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, 419–428. Seoul, Korea: Hankook Munhwasa. Online: https://glowlinguistics.org/asia12/proceedings/   https://glowlinguistics.org/asia12/proceedings/
• Chen, Sihwei. 2017. Bundling perfective and perfect: The Atayal wal. In Michael Y. Erlewine (ed.), Proceedings of GLOW in Asia XI, Volume 1, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 84, 65–78. Cambridge, MA: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. Online: https://glowlinguistics.org/asia11/proceedings/
• Chen, Sihwei. 2017. Initial stages of events: The Atayal unmarked predicates. In Aaron Kaplan, Abby Kaplan, Miranda K. McCarvel, and Edward J. Rubin (eds.), Proceedings of the 34th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 107–114. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. Online: http://www.lingref.com/cpp/wccfl/34/paper3302.pdf 
• Chen, Sihwei. 2016. Lexical aspect and aspectually unmarked predicates in Atayal. In Hiroki Nomoto, Takuya Miyauchi, and Asako Shiohara (eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, 65–80. Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics. Online: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/111479
• Chen, Sihwei. 2016. The absence of inverse scope in Tlingít. In Emily Sadlier-Brown, et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas 20 (UBCWPL 43), 1–15. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia. Online: https://lingpapers.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2021/04/WSCLA20-01-Chen.pdf   
• Chen, Sihwei. 2014. The syntactic categories of adverbials in Atayal. In Zoe Lam and Natalie Weber (eds.), UBC Working Papers in Linguistics 38, 1–26. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia. Online: https://linguistics.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2014/03/Chen_NWLC29_pages.pdf