This seminar is designed for graduate students interested in empirical research in East Asian Linguistics. It offers an intensive examination of the empirical methods employed in answering major theoretical questions in Chinese, Japanese and Korean linguistics with implications for general linguistics. We will read and discuss major studies, both landmark publications and recent advances, in the linguistics subfields including typology, historical linguistics, functional syntax, semantics, socio-pragmatics, language and cognition, and second language acquisition. Throughout the term students will engage in hands-on data collection, analysis and writing up. By the end of the term, students will either (1) independently compose a comprehensive and critical literature review (ca. 4000 words) of empirical research in a subfield on one of the three languages or (2) independently develop a compact research report (ca. 4000 words) using experimental or corpus data and one of the methods addressed in the class.