Organized by the T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre of the Institute of Chinese Studies and sponsored by United College, the Workshop on the Syntax of Topics was held on campus on 14 February. Examining topics in natural languages from a comparative approach, the workshop featured three distinguished speakers, namely, Prof. C.-T. James Huang (photo), Harvard University; Prof. Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai, National Tsing Hua University; and Prof. John Whitman, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics and Cornell University.