Staff Name Project Account Code Member Type Fund Scheme Project Title Commence-ment Date Completion Date
CHAN Chi Leung A-PB03 Co-Investigator RGC Direct Allocation An Investigation of the Validity and Reliability of a Measurement Scale for Assessing PolyU Students in accordance with their Levels of Proficiency in Written Chinese as L1 7-Jun-99 6-Dec-00
  1-BB91 Co-Investigator Niche Areas Teaching and Assessment System on Putonghua Oral Skills 1-Nov-05 31-Aug-08
CHAN Chi Wang G-T965 Co-Investigator Departmental General Research Fund A Preliminary Study on Student Support for Putonghua Self-learning 1-Apr-04 31-Jan-05
CHAN Shui Duen G-S014 Co-Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Survey of Dialects in the Xijiang and Beijiang River Reaches (p.1) 1-Jul-92 9-Oct-97
  G-S652 Co-Investigator Departmental General Research Fund A Contextual Study of Semantic, Collocative and Regional Differences in the Use of Chinese Synonyms and Near Synonyms 1-Jul-97 4-Sep-98
  G-S552 Co-Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Comparing and Contrasting News Discourse between Hong Kong and Mainland China : A Critical Linguistics Approach 8-Sep-97 7-Sep-99
  A-PE74 Co-Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (DA) Comparing and Contrasting Broadcast Talk between Hong Kong and Inland China: A Critical Linguistics Approach 1-Jun-03 10-Dec-06
  G-T966 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Learning Materials for Professional Chinese Practical Writing - Using ITC as a Pilot 1-Mar-04 31-Oct-05
  G-T965 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund A Preliminary Study on Student Support for Putonghua Self-learning 1-Apr-04 31-Jan-05
  A-PA1G Co-Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Constructing a Virtual Archive of Corporate Artefacts for Establishing a Data Basis for a Comparative Study of Corporate Communication within Greater China 1-Jun-05 31-May-08
  G-YE11 Co-Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (CRG) Bilingual Communication and Impact on Perceived Tourism Quality in Hong Kong 1-Jun-05 ongoing
  1-BB91 Principal Investigator Niche Areas Teaching and Assessment System on Putonghua Oral Skills 1-Nov-05 31-Aug-08
  B-Q02G Co-Investigator RGC General Research Fund An Ex Post Facto Study of School & Socio-Psychological Factors and PTH Proficiency of HK Students Indicated in the PTH Proficiency Assessment of Secondary-3 Students and the PolyU Graduating Students' Language Proficiency Assessment (PTH) 2-Oct-06 ongoing
  1-ZV76 Co-Investigator One-line Budget A Comprehensive Study on the Assessment of Putonghua and Chinese Language Abilities 2-Jul-08 ongoing
CHAN Wing Sat A-PB03 Co-Investigator RGC Direct Allocation An Investigation of the Validity and Reliability of a Measurement Scale for Assessing PolyU Students in accordance with their Levels of Proficiency in Written Chinese as L1 7-Jun-99 6-Dec-00
  A-PB81 Co-Investigator RGC Direct Allocation A Profile of PolyU Graduates Who Perform Well in Both Chinese (Including Putonghua) and English in the Graduate Students Language Proficiency Assessment 1-Aug-00 30-May-04
  A-PD28 Co-Investigator RGC Direct Allocation Language and Advertising Communication 1-Feb-02 24-Jan-03
  A-PH36 Principal Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (DA) Cloze Test as a Means to Assess Both Perspective and Productive Performances in Written Chinese 29-Sep-07 ongoing
CHAU CHAN Wai Yi G-T966 Co-Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Learning Materials for Professional Chinese Practical Writing - Using ITC as a Pilot 1-Mar-04 31-Oct-05
  G-T964 Co-Investigator Departmental General Research Fund A Survey on College Chinese Writing Exercises - Students' Perception and their Needs 15-Mar-04 28-Aug-06
CHENG Siu Kei A-PH36 Co-Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (DA) Cloze Test as a Means to Assess Both Perspective and Productive Performances in Written Chinese 29-Sep-07 ongoing
  1-ZV76 Co-Investigator One-line Budget A Comprehensive Study on the Assessment of Putonghua and Chinese Language Abilities 2-Jul-08 ongoing
CHEUNG Kay Fan Andrew G-T124 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Social-psychological Factors Affecting Simultaneous Interpretation Users Expectations: An Initial Exploration 15-Mar-00 15-Sep-02
  G-T360 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Preliminary Study on the Development of Professional Interpreter Accreditation in Hong Kong 20-Aug-01 15-Jun-04
  G-U431 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Preliminary Study of Training Needs of South Asian Language Medical Interpreters in Hong Kong 1-Dec-07 ongoing
  1-ZV73 Principal Investigator One-line Budget Communicative Strategies in Court Interpreting 1-Jun-08 ongoing
  A-PD0P Principal Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (DA) Comparative Review on Research of Interpreting Studies in the Chinese Mainland: a Glimpse at the Past Three Decades 1-Aug-09 ongoing
CHEUNG Kwan Hin A-P007 Principal Investigator RGC Direct Allocation Assignment of Cantonese Pronunciation to the Repertoire of Chinese Characters   17-Nov-97
  H-ZH21 Principal Investigator Providence Foundation Ltd. Pronunciation Comparison between Cantonese and Putonghua   17-Nov-97
  G-S014 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Survey of Dialects in the Xijiang and Beijiang River Reaches (p.1) 1-Jul-92 9-Oct-97
  G-V057 Principal Investigator Degree Project Merging of Consonantal Endings in Hong Kong Cantonese: A Microhistoric Study 1-Mar-94 11-Aug-99
  G-V004 Principal Investigator Degree Project Lexical Variation of Chinese Mandarin Among Different Chinese Communities 1-Jun-94 19-Oct-00
  F-RC09 Principal Investigator UGC Central Allocation Vote To Develop and Trial Test Batteries in English and Chinese (including Putonghua) and to Provide a Descriptive Measure of Graduating Students' Language Abilities - Chinese Strand (p.1) 1-Sep-94 9-Jun-98
  B-Q031 Principal Investigator RGC General Research Fund Graphical Representation of Cantonese: Past, Present and Future 31-Dec-94 30-Dec-98
  G-V315 Co-Investigator Degree Project The Development of Standard Baihuawen during the Period of 1917-1955 1-Dec-95 14-Oct-99
  G-V450 Co-Investigator Degree Project A Study of Cantonese Resultative Compounds 1-Nov-96 1-Jan-00
  G-V485 Principal Investigator Degree Project Influence of Cantonese on Hakka: A Comparison of  "Old Style" and "New Style" Hakka as Spoken in Hong Kong 9-Dec-96 19-Oct-00
  G-YB57 Co-Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (CRG) A Preliminary Acoustic Study of Cantonese Suprasegmental Features 5-Mar-99 31-Dec-01
  G-S968 Co-Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Implementing a Jyutping Word-based Chinese Input Method: A Pilot Project 3-May-99 2-Sep-00
  A-PA99 Principal Investigator RGC Direct Allocation Compiling a Dictionary of Chinese Character Properties for Hong Kong 4-Jun-99 3-Jun-04
  B-Q293 Principal Investigator RGC General Research Fund A Phonetic Study of Cantonese Intonation 1-Oct-99 31-Dec-04
  A-PB80 Co-Investigator RGC Direct Allocation A Glossary of Hong Kong Cantonese Pinjam 1-Feb-00 30-Jun-04
  G-YW62 Principal Investigator Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme A Comprehensive Phonological Correspondence between Putonghua and Cantonese 1-Mar-01 10-Oct-05
  G-T359 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund The Representation of Cantonese with Chinese Characters: Monograph Publication 24-May-01 23-Aug-01
  A-PE73 Co-Principal Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (DA) The ABC Colloquial Cantonese-English Dictionary 1-Jun-03 31-Jan-06
  A-PF71 Co-Principal Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (DA) The ABC Colloquial Cantonese-English Dictionary: Completion Phase 15-Sep-04 31-Jan-06
CHIU Kwok Kei G-T966 Co-Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Learning Materials for Professional Chinese Practical Writing - Using ITC as a Pilot 1-Mar-04 31-Oct-05
  G-T964 Co-Investigator Departmental General Research Fund A Survey on College Chinese Writing Exercises - Students' Perception and their Needs 15-Mar-04 28-Aug-06
CHU Chi Yu G-V368 Principal Investigator Degree Project Lin Shu the Translator - His Truth and His Lies 1-Apr-96 18-Oct-01
  G-V429 Principal Investigator Degree Project Whose Strange Stories? Herbert Giles (1845-1935) and his Translation of the Liaozhai Stories of Pu Songling (1640-1715) 20-Sep-96 18-Oct-01
  G-S324 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Translation Classics between the Chinese and English 1-Oct-96 8-Sep-97
  G-V428 Principal Investigator Degree Project Early Chinese Translations of the Bible 4-Oct-96 23-Oct-03
  G-V457 Principal Investigator Degree Project The Story of the Stone's Journey to the West : A Study in Translation History 5-Dec-96 13-Sep-01
  G-V574 Principal Investigator Degree Project Early Chinese Translations of Sherlock Holmes 3-Oct-97 18-Oct-01
  G-YB15 Principal Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (CRG) Hong Kong Written Chinese: The Influence of  the English Language 1-Jun-98 5-Jan-00
  G-S830 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund A Critical Anthology of Traditional Chinese Theory of Translation 1-Sep-98 30-Nov-99
  G-YB56 Principal Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (CRG) A Critical Anthology of Traditional Chinese Theory of Translation 1-Apr-99 30-Jun-00
  G-S991 Co-Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Syntactic Variations in Hong Kong Written Chinese: The Cantonese Influence 15-Sep-99 15-Sep-01
  G-YC44 Principal Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (CRG) Fanyi Mingyi (The Signified and Signifier in Translation): Language and Culture 15-May-00 14-Nov-01
  G-YC88 Co-Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (CRG) Hong Kong Written Chinese - Its Unique Characteristics and Special Features 22-Jun-01 21-Jun-04
  G-T459 Principal Investigator Fundable but Unfunded Project (CRG) A Critical History of Traditional Chinese Theories of Translation 1-Apr-02 19-Jun-04
  G-T546 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Type, Reader, Translator, Strategy 1-Sep-02 1-Jun-04
  A-PE14 Co-Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (DA) Semantic Shift and Language Evolution: from Standard Chinese to Hong Kong Written Chinese 15-Sep-03 14-Sep-06
  G-T879 Co-Investigator Fundable but Unfunded Project (CRG) Hong Kong Written Chinese - A Comprehensive Study and a Reference Grammar 15-Feb-04 14-Feb-07
  A-PF48 Principal Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (DA) An Investigation of Translation Typology 1-Aug-04 31-Dec-07
  G-YX58 Principal Investigator Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme A Study of the Translations of Xueheng School 27-Jun-05 26-Aug-07
  A-PA3Z Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund A Study of the Translations of the Xueheng School 27-Jun-05 26-Oct-07
  A-PG35 Co-Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (DA) Language Use in the Tourism Industry - The Case of Tour Guides Serving Visitors from Mainland China 15-Jul-05 ongoing
  G-U320 Principal Investigator Mainland University Joint Supervision Scheme Constructing a Model for Objective Assessment of Interpreters and Their Interpreting - The Functionalist Approach 1-Mar-07 29-Feb-08
  G-U473 Principal Investigator Mainland University Joint Supervision Scheme Cognitive-pragmatics, Psychology and Literary Translation: An Explanatory Study on the Makeup and Acquisition of Translation Competence 1-Mar-08 ongoing
  1-ZV4K Principal Investigator One-line Budget An Anthology of Traditional Chinese Theories of Translation, A Source Book 15-Jun-09 ongoing
  G-YX2S Principal Investigator Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme Narrating the Metamorphic Modern Chinese Peasant: A Study of Mo Yan's "Dream of Red Chamber Award" Winner (Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out) and Its English Translation 31-Aug-09 ongoing
FUNG Suk Yee Roxana A-PA30 Principal Investigator RGC Direct Allocation The Production and Perception of Cantonese Consonant Endings 1-Apr-98 31-Mar-00
  A-PE73 Co-Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (DA) The ABC Colloquial Cantonese-English Dictionary 1-Jun-03 31-Jan-06
  A-PF71 Co-Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (DA) The ABC Colloquial Cantonese-English Dictionary: Completion Phase 15-Sep-04 31-Jan-06
  A-SA06 Principal Investigator Fund for CERG Project Rated 3.5 (DA) Variations and Mergers of Tones in Hong Kong Cantonese 1-Nov-08 ongoing
HO Chung Yip 1-BB91 Co-Investigator Niche Areas Teaching and Assessment System on Putonghua Oral Skills 1-Nov-05 31-Aug-08
HOLTON Brian Anthony G-T386 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Yang Lian Anthology 3-Jul-01 2-Aug-01
  1-ZV75 Principal Investigator One-line Budget Norms in Team Translation of Chinese Literary Texts 2-Jun-08 ongoing
HUANG Chu-ren 1-BBZM Principal Investigator   Start-up Grant for Newly Appointed Professors (Prof. Chu-ren Huang) 10-Oct-08 ongoing
  G-U641 Principal Investigator Mainland University Joint Supervision Scheme Linguistic Knowledge Discovery Based on Comprehensive Language Knowledge-base 18-May-09 ongoing
  4-ZZ85 Principal Investigator Departmental Earnings Event Coercion Constructions in Mandarin Chinese: Corpus Annotation and Linguistic Explanation 15-Jun-09 ongoing
  G-YX2R Principal Investigator Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme Deep Sentiment Analysis and Emotion Classification Based on Linguistics Theories 31-Aug-09 ongoing
JIANG Yan A-P160 Principal Investigator RGC Direct Allocation Studies on the Semantic Properties of Idiosyncratic Sentence Patterns of Modern Chinese   8-Sep-99
  G-S289 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Studies on Context-dependent Properties of Chinese 1-Oct-96 25-Aug-97
  A-PA29 Principal Investigator RGC Direct Allocation Towards an Intergrated Model of Discourse Analysis 1-May-98 31-Oct-99
  G-S831 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Pragmatic Reasoning and Language Testing 18-Sep-98 16-Feb-01
  A-PC50 Principal Investigator RGC Direct Allocation Investigating Cognitive Semantic Structures 22-Jun-01 30-Jun-04
  A-PE13 Principal Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (DA) Extracting, Evaluating, and Harmonizing Formal Methods for a Programme of Formal Pragmatics 1-Sep-03 30-Aug-06
  G-YG68 Principal Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (CRG) Exploring the Relationship between Pragmatics and Rhetoric 1-May-08 ongoing
  1-ZV71 Principal Investigator One-line Budget Rhetorical Invention: A Trinity of Stasis, Enthymeme and Topos - With an Inquiry into Rhetoric as Epistemic 1-Sep-08 ongoing
KONG Wai Ping Judy G-S653 Co-Investigator Departmental General Research Fund A Bibliography of Bilingual Reference Materials for Chinese- English and English-Chinese Translation 1-Jun-97 1-Sep-98
  G-S813 Co-Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Translation and Readership: A Study on Lexical Variations in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong 1-Jun-98 30-Nov-98
  4-ZZ74 Principal Investigator Departmental Earnings Approaches to Translating Promotional Materials 1-Dec-08 ongoing
KWOK Siu Kuen G-T966 Co-Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Learning Materials for Professional Chinese Practical Writing - Using ITC as a Pilot 1-Mar-04 31-Oct-05
LAI Sau Mei 1-ZV76 Co-Investigator One-line Budget A Comprehensive Study on the Assessment of Putonghua and Chinese Language Abilities 2-Jul-08 ongoing
LAM Yee Man G-T966 Co-Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Learning Materials for Professional Chinese Practical Writing - Using ITC as a Pilot 1-Mar-04 31-Oct-05
LAU Man Choi A-PB81 Co-Investigator RGC Direct Allocation A Profile of PolyU Graduates Who Perform Well in Both Chinese (Including Putonghua) and English in the Graduate Students Language Proficiency Assessment 1-Aug-00 30-May-04
  1-BB91 Co-Investigator Niche Areas Teaching and Assessment System on Putonghua Oral Skills 1-Nov-05 31-Aug-08
  B-Q02G Co-Investigator RGC General Research Fund An Ex Post Facto Study of School & Socio-Psychological Factors and PTH Proficiency of HK Students Indicated in the PTH Proficiency Assessment of Secondary-3 Students and the PolyU Graduating Students' Language Proficiency Assessment (PTH) 2-Oct-06 ongoing
  1-ZV76 Co-Investigator One-line Budget A Comprehensive Study on the Assessment of Putonghua and Chinese Language Abilities 2-Jul-08 ongoing
LEUNG Ka Wing G-T964 Co-Investigator Departmental General Research Fund A Survey on College Chinese Writing Exercises - Students' Perception and their Needs 15-Mar-04 28-Aug-06
LI Ai Jun Shafi 1-BB91 Co-Investigator Niche Areas Teaching and Assessment System on Putonghua Oral Skills 1-Nov-05 31-Aug-08
LI Dechao 1-ZV74 Principal Investigator One-line Budget Teaching the Translation of Hong Kong Tourist Brochures: Perspectives from Functional Contrastive Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics 1-Nov-08 ongoing
  4-ZZ75 Principal Investigator Departmental Earnings The Application of Data-driven Learning for Undergraduates of Tourism Translation in Hong Kong: A Pilot Study 1-Jan-09 ongoing
  A-PC1M Principal Investigator Newly Recruited Junior Academic Staff Building Bilingual Interpreting Corpora on Contemporary Social Life in Hong Kong 30-Sep-09 ongoing
LI Kexing G-S606 Co-Investigator Departmental General Research Fund The Hong Kong Translation Industry 18-Jan-97 17-Jun-99
  G-S421 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Translation of Advertisement: Principles and Techniques 1-Sep-97 31-Dec-99
  G-S657 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Translation for Business and Commerce: Scopes, Styles, Principles and Techniques 1-Oct-97 8-Sep-99
  G-T125 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Techniques for Translation of Advertisements 1-Apr-00 15-Jun-02
  A-PD27 Principal Investigator RGC Direct Allocation Demystifying Legal Translation 1-Sep-02 31-Jan-04
  G-YG69 Principal Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (CRG) Building of a Paradigm for Translation of Advertisement 1-Sep-08 ongoing
  1-ZV3Z Principal Investigator Dean's Reserve Searching for and Building up Translation Strategies for Legal Texts: A Justification of Static Equivalence Translation 1-Jul-09 ongoing
LI Wai 1-BB91 Co-Investigator Niche Areas Teaching and Assessment System on Putonghua Oral Skills 1-Nov-05 31-Aug-08
LIU Yi G-YF38 Co-Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (CRG) Connotational Differences between Hong Kong Written Chinese and Standard Chinese 1-Sep-07 ongoing
  G-YG70 Principal Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (CRG) The Investigation of Tonal and Rhyme Changes in Hong Kong Cantonese 1-Sep-08 ongoing
  G-YH64 Co-Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (CRG) Homographic Words in Hong Kong Written Chinese and Standard Chinese: The Influence of Cantonese 30-Sep-09 ongoing
LO Woon Chun G-T964 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund A Survey on College Chinese Writing Exercises - Students' Perception and their Needs 15-Mar-04 28-Aug-06
MATSUMOTO Masumi G-U620 Co-Investigator Departmental General Research Fund The Effect of Warrants in the Assessment of L2 Writing in Japanese 1-Sep-08 ongoing
NG Kam Lung G-T964 Co-Investigator Departmental General Research Fund A Survey on College Chinese Writing Exercises - Students' Perception and their Needs 15-Mar-04 28-Aug-06
NG Pak Kei Patrick A-PD29 Co-Investigator RGC Direct Allocation Intertextuality in Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese Media Discourses 1-Aug-02 31-Dec-03
  G-T767 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Bilingual Study of Broadcast Talk 1-May-03 30-Jun-05
  G-T979 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund An Audit and Examination of Artefacts of Corporate Communication in Hong Kong with Special Reference to Their Pedagogical Implications 6-Mar-04 5-Feb-07
  A-PA1G Co-Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Constructing a Virtual Archive of Corporate Artefacts for Establishing a Data Basis for a Comparative Study of Corporate Communication within Greater China 1-Jun-05 31-May-08
  A-PA6S Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Analyzing Interlingual Functions and Strategies Vis-a-vis Cross-cultural Norms of Spoken Corporate Communication Activities in Greater China 1-Dec-06 ongoing
  G-U440 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund An Exploratory Study of Corporate Communication Professionals'  Views towards Communicative Efficacy via Artefact Examination in Greater China Context 1-Jan-08 ongoing
  4-ZZ77 Principal Investigator Departmental Earnings An Exploratory Study of Interrelationship Between Chinese Non-Verbal Communication Styles and Effective Corporate Communication Practices in the Greater China Context 16-Dec-08 ongoing
PANG Tun G-T964 Co-Investigator Departmental General Research Fund A Survey on College Chinese Writing Exercises - Students' Perception and their Needs 15-Mar-04 28-Aug-06
PAT Yuen Ying 1-BB91 Co-Investigator Niche Areas Teaching and Assessment System on Putonghua Oral Skills 1-Nov-05 31-Aug-08
SHI Dingxu G-V308 Principal Investigator Degree Project V-V Resultative Constructions in Mandarin Chinese 15-Nov-95 19-Apr-01
  G-V450 Principal Investigator Degree Project A Study of Cantonese Resultative Compounds 1-Nov-96 1-Jan-00
  A-P162 Co-Investigator RGC Direct Allocation Cantonese-Putonghua Inter-dialect Machine Translation and its Integration with the World Wide Web 26-Mar-97 19-Jan-99
  A-P161 Principal Investigator RGC Direct Allocation Calculate the Topic-Subject Ratio 26-Mar-97 31-Mar-99
  G-YB15 Co-Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (CRG) Hong Kong Written Chinese: The Influence of  the English Language 1-Jun-98 5-Jan-00
  G-S991 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Syntactic Variations in Hong Kong Written Chinese: The Cantonese Influence 15-Sep-99 15-Sep-01
  G-YC88 Principal Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (CRG) Hong Kong Written Chinese - Its Unique Characteristics and Special Features 22-Jun-01 21-Jun-04
  G-YX05 Principal Investigator Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme Quantification in Chinese and English 7-Aug-03 6-Aug-06
  A-PE14 Principal Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (DA) Semantic Shift and Language Evolution: from Standard Chinese to Hong Kong Written Chinese 15-Sep-03 14-Sep-06
  G-T879 Principal Investigator Fundable but Unfunded Project (CRG) Hong Kong Written Chinese - A Comprehensive Study and a Reference Grammar 15-Feb-04 14-Feb-07
  A-PG35 Principal Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (DA) Language Use in the Tourism Industry - The Case of Tour Guides Serving Visitors from Mainland China 15-Jul-05 ongoing
  G-YX59 Co-Investigator Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme A Comparative Study on Modification Strategies in Chinese and English 1-Sep-05 ongoing
  G-U167 Principal Investigator Fundable but Unfunded Project (CRG) Resolution of Ambiguity in Chinese 2-May-06 ongoing
  G-YX73 Principal Investigator Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme Adverb Quantification in Mandarin Chinese and its Diachronic Development 24-Aug-06 ongoing
  G-YF38 Principal Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (CRG) Connotational Differences between Hong Kong Written Chinese and Standard Chinese 1-Sep-07 ongoing
  G-YX0J Principal Investigator Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme The Adjective-noun Constructions in Chinese 1-Sep-08 ongoing
  4-ZZ86 Principal Investigator Departmental Earnings Prosody and Syntax on VP Adverbial Adjuncts in Mandarin Chinese 15-Jun-09 ongoing
  G-YH64 Principal Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (CRG) Homographic Words in Hong Kong Written Chinese and Standard Chinese: The Influence of Cantonese 30-Sep-09 ongoing
SIU Soon Wah Johnson G-T964 Co-Investigator Departmental General Research Fund A Survey on College Chinese Writing Exercises - Students' Perception and their Needs 15-Mar-04 28-Aug-06
SO Wing Cheung G-S200 Co-Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Towards a More Precise Differentiation of Bilinguality in Hong Kong: A Pilot Study of Bilingual Competence in Both Academic and Non-academic Performance (p.1)   10-Nov-97
  G-V315 Principal Investigator Degree Project The Development of Standard Baihuawen during the Period of 1917-1955 1-Dec-95 14-Oct-99
  G-S355 Co-Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Towards a More Precise Differentiation of Bilinguality in Hong Kong Students' Competence in Using Cantonese, Chinese (Including Putonghua) and English to Communicate for Both Academic and Non-academic Purpose 1-Jul-96 8-Sep-98
  G-V494 Principal Investigator Degree Project Constructing Bilingual Norms for Bilingual Program Assessment : A Comparative Study of Bilingual Written Performance of Anglophone Students in Montreal (Quebec) and Cantonese-Speaking Students in Hong Kong 2-Jan-97 19-Oct-00
  G-S655 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund IEA Language Education Study 1-Jul-97 16-Nov-98
  G-S972 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Documenting the Vernacularization and Modernization of Written Standard Chinese between 1917 and 1935 from the Perspective of Language Planning with Special Reference to the Role Played by Hu Shin and other Major Actors 1-May-99 31-Dec-00
  A-PB81 Principal Investigator RGC Direct Allocation A Profile of PolyU Graduates Who Perform Well in Both Chinese (Including Putonghua) and English in the Graduate Students Language Proficiency Assessment 1-Aug-00 30-May-04
  G-YC45 Principal Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (CRG) Landmark Policy Changes in Education and Their Impact on the Developments in Language-in-Education in Hong Kong 1862-1998: A Preliminary Analysis 3-Oct-00 30-Oct-02
  G-T340 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Urban & Additive Bilingualism: A Collection of Refereed Articles 15-Apr-01 14-Mar-04
  G-T503 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund The Efficacy of Web-based, On-line Delivery of Bilingual (Chinese & English) Subject Matter 1-Oct-02 30-Apr-04
  A-PE15 Principal Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (DA) Language and Ethnic Identity in Hong Kong: Non-Cantonese Speaking Dialect Groups' Language Shift to Cantonese after 1949 1-Apr-03 31-Mar-05
  G-T707 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Profiling Chinese Inputting Systems in Hong Kong with an Evaluation of the Strengths and Weaknesses of Major Inputting Approaches and Methodologies 18-Aug-03 30-Apr-05
  G-T916 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Construction of an On-line Corpus of Sample Chinese Texts with Vernacular Styles Written between 618 A.D. and 1955 for a Sociolinguistic Study of the Emergence of Modern Standard Chinese Post 1919 1-Feb-04 ongoing
  G-T979 Co-Investigator Departmental General Research Fund An Audit and Examination of Artefacts of Corporate Communication in Hong Kong with Special Reference to Their Pedagogical Implications 6-Mar-04 5-Feb-07
  B-Q787 Principal Investigator RGC General Research Fund Differential Rate of Adoption of Cantonese as Mother Tongue among the Descendants of Non-Cantonese Speaking Hongkong Chinese Residents during 1949-1996 1-Oct-04 30-Sep-07
  A-PA1G Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Constructing a Virtual Archive of Corporate Artefacts for Establishing a Data Basis for a Comparative Study of Corporate Communication within Greater China 1-Jun-05 31-May-08
  B-Q02G Principal Investigator RGC General Research Fund An Ex Post Facto Study of School & Socio-Psychological Factors and PTH Proficiency of HK Students Indicated in the PTH Proficiency Assessment of Secondary-3 Students and the PolyU Graduating Students' Language Proficiency Assessment (PTH) 2-Oct-06 ongoing
SUGAI Hideaki G-U620 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund The Effect of Warrants in the Assessment of L2 Writing in Japanese 1-Sep-08 ongoing
SZAKOS Jozsef 4-ZZ76 Principal Investigator Departmental Earnings Database Creation from Formosan Astronesian Language Recordings 1-Dec-08 ongoing
  1-ZV4L Principal Investigator One-line Budget Connected Speech: Fluent Speech Variations in Saaroa, Kanakanavu, and Tsou (Formosan Austronesian) Languages 1-Jun-09 ongoing
TAM Yuen G-T965 Co-Investigator Departmental General Research Fund A Preliminary Study on Student Support for Putonghua Self-learning 1-Apr-04 31-Jan-05
TANG Sze Wing G-S968 Co-Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Implementing a Jyutping Word-based Chinese Input Method: A Pilot Project 3-May-99 2-Sep-00
  G-S971 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund A Study of Sentence Final Particles in Spoken Cantonese 1-Jun-99 1-Jun-01
  G-T120 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Functional Categories in Spoken Cantonese by Hong Kong Retarded Children 1-Jan-00 8-Jun-01
  G-T334 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund A Parametric Approach to Clausal Structures in Cantonese and Mandarin 20-Mar-01 7-Jun-03
  G-T363 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Acquisition of Word Order in Spoken Cantonese by Hong Kong Retarded Children 21-May-01 30-Apr-05
  G-T540 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund A Syntactic Approach to Cantonese Verbal Particles 1-Jul-02 31-Dec-04
  G-T705 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund A Parametric Approach to Chinese Dialectal Grammar 23-Dec-02 22-Feb-04
  A-PE73 Co-Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (DA) The ABC Colloquial Cantonese-English Dictionary 1-Jun-03 31-Jan-06
  A-PF49 Principal Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (DA) A Comparative Study of the Postverbal Particles in the Cantonese and Xiang Dialects 1-Apr-04 ongoing
  A-PF71 Co-Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (DA) The ABC Colloquial Cantonese-English Dictionary: Completion Phase 15-Sep-04 31-Jan-06
  G-YX59 Principal Investigator Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme A Comparative Study on Modification Strategies in Chinese and English 1-Sep-05 ongoing
  A-PA3S Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Studies on the Syntactic Analyticity of Chinese Clauses 1-Feb-06 ongoing
  B-Q02H Principal Investigator RGC General Research Fund A Comparative Study of Definiteness in Chinese Dialects 1-Jan-07 ongoing
  G-YX85 Principal Investigator Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme A Comparative Study on Copular Verbs 17-Aug-07 ongoing
  C-RA14 Principal Investigator RGC Conference/seminar Grant Adverbial Clauses, Operator Movement, and Subject Omission from a UG-based Perspective 1-Apr-08 24-Apr-08
WU Dongying G-S200 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Towards a More Precise Differentiation of Bilinguality in Hong Kong: A Pilot Study of Bilingual Competence in Both Academic and Non-academic Performance (p.1)   10-Nov-97
  G-S355 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Towards a More Precise Differentiation of Bilinguality in Hong Kong Students' Competence in Using Cantonese, Chinese (Including Putonghua) and English to Communicate for Both Academic and Non-academic Purpose 1-Jul-96 8-Sep-98
  G-S552 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Comparing and Contrasting News Discourse between Hong Kong and Mainland China : A Critical Linguistics Approach 8-Sep-97 7-Sep-99
  G-S969 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Towards an Integrated Framework of Studying Borrowing and Language Change in Greater China 1-Aug-99 31-Oct-00
  G-T199 Principal Investigator Fundable but Unfunded Project (CRG) Linguistic Conventionalization in Chinese Promotional Genres 15-Nov-00 31-Oct-02
  A-PD29 Principal Investigator RGC Direct Allocation Intertextuality in Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese Media Discourses 1-Aug-02 31-Dec-03
  G-T767 Co-Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Bilingual Study of Broadcast Talk 1-May-03 30-Jun-05
  A-PE74 Principal Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (DA) Comparing and Contrasting Broadcast Talk between Hong Kong and Inland China: A Critical Linguistics Approach 1-Jun-03 10-Dec-06
  G-T979 Co-Investigator Departmental General Research Fund An Audit and Examination of Artefacts of Corporate Communication in Hong Kong with Special Reference to Their Pedagogical Implications 6-Mar-04 5-Feb-07
  A-PA0G Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Towards an Integrated Framework of Studying Multilingual and Multicultural Discourses in Greater China 1-Dec-04 30-Sep-07
  G-YE11 Principal Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (CRG) Bilingual Communication and Impact on Perceived Tourism Quality in Hong Kong 1-Jun-05 ongoing
  B-Q09K Principal Investigator RGC General Research Fund Constitutional Development in Hong Kong: A Discourse Approach 1-Dec-05 ongoing
YEUNG Kwan 1-BB91 Co-Investigator Niche Areas Teaching and Assessment System on Putonghua Oral Skills 1-Nov-05 31-Aug-08
  1-ZV76 Co-Investigator One-line Budget A Comprehensive Study on the Assessment of Putonghua and Chinese Language Abilities 2-Jul-08 ongoing
YU Wing Sze A-PH36 Co-Investigator Internal Competitive Research Grant (DA) Cloze Test as a Means to Assess Both Perspective and Productive Performances in Written Chinese 29-Sep-07 ongoing
ZHANG Xiaoheng G-V310 Principal Investigator Degree Project Intelligent Chinese Pinyin-Character Conversion based on Phrase Theories and Corpus Linguistics 15-Nov-95 12-Jun-98
  A-P162 Principal Investigator RGC Direct Allocation Cantonese-Putonghua Inter-dialect Machine Translation and its Integration with the World Wide Web 26-Mar-97 19-Jan-99
  A-P161 Co-Investigator RGC Direct Allocation Calculate the Topic-Subject Ratio 26-Mar-97 31-Mar-99
  G-S968 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Implementing a Jyutping Word-based Chinese Input Method: A Pilot Project 3-May-99 2-Sep-00
  G-T503 Co-Investigator Departmental General Research Fund The Efficacy of Web-based, On-line Delivery of Bilingual (Chinese & English) Subject Matter 1-Oct-02 30-Apr-04
  G-T766 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund A WinXP-Based Generic Concordance Program for Corpora of Text Files 1-May-03 30-Sep-04
  G-T707 Co-Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Profiling Chinese Inputting Systems in Hong Kong with an Evaluation of the Strengths and Weaknesses of Major Inputting Approaches and Methodologies 18-Aug-03 30-Apr-05
  G-T957 Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Further Development of the AllBalanced Chinese Character Input System 5-Jan-04 12-Apr-05
  A-PA0K Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund Further Development of a Generic Concordance Program 3-Jan-05 22-Jun-06
  A-PA6T Principal Investigator Departmental General Research Fund A Comparative Study of Standard Chinese Character Stroke Orders between Mainland and Taiwan 2-Dec-06 ongoing
ZHU Xinhua 1-BB91 Co-Investigator Niche Areas Teaching and Assessment System on Putonghua Oral Skills 1-Nov-05 31-Aug-08
  1-ZV76 Principal Investigator One-line Budget A Comprehensive Study on the Assessment of Putonghua and Chinese Language Abilities 2-Jul-08 ongoing