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Areas of Scholarship

Education

Work Experience

Teaching

• Introduction to Language
• Contrastive Analysis
• Syntax
• Description of Modern Chinese
• Advanced Analysis of Standard Chinese
• Applied Chinese Studies
• Topics in the Study of Chinese Grammar

Administrative Duties

• Associate Head of the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies
• Chair of Research Committee of Faculty of Communication
• Programme Leader of the MA Scheme in Chinese, Linguistics and Translation

Research Output

Publications (Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters)

• 1989a. “Topic Chain As A Syntactic Category In Chinese”. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 17.223‑262.
• 1990a. “The Structure Of Postverbal Adverbials Associated With DE”. Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 25.2.43‑64.
• 1991a. “Chinese Pidgin English, Its Origin And Linguistic Features”. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 19.1 1‑41.
• 1992a. “On The Etymology Of Pidgin”. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 7.343‑347.
• 1993a. “Learning Pidgin English Through Chinese Characters”. In F. Byrne and J. Holm eds. The Atlantic Meets the Pacific, 459‑465. John Benjamins Publishing Co., Amsterdam.
• 1993b. “Review of Jiangyong Nüshu Zhi Mi (The Myth Of Jiangyong Female Writing), by Xie, Zhimin (1991)”. Language 69.1.174‑178.
• 1994a. “The Nature Of Chinese WH‑Questions”. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. 12.301‑333.
• 1994b. “The Nature Of Chinese Emphatic Sentences”. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 3.1.81‑100.
• 1995a. “The History and State of the Art of the Study on Pidgin and Creole Languages”. Linguistics Abroad 95.4. 1-8.
• 1996a. “The Yi Scripts”. In Peter Daniels and Williams Bright eds. The World's Writing Systems, 239-243, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• 1996b. “The Nature of Chinese Verb-Duplication Constructions”. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 26.271-284.
• 1997a. “The State of the Art of the Study on Chinese Linguistics, Linguistics Abroad 97.1.19-25.
• 1997b. “On Chinese Passives”. Journal of Chinese Linguistics. 25.1.41-70.
• 1997c. “The Transitivity of Chinese V-R Constructions”. Studies of Chinese Language (Zhongguo Yuwen Tongxun) 42.22-30. (Co-Authored with Lingling Wang).
• 1997d. “Marking Topic-Subject in Chinese Sentences”. In Liwei Chen and Qi Yuan eds. Language Engineering, 102-108, Tsinghua University Press, Beijing. (Co-Authored with Xiaohe Chen).
• 1997e. “Machine Translation between Chinese Dialects”. In Liwei Chen and Qi Yuan eds. Language Engineering, 225-231, Tsinghua University Press, Beijing. (Co-Authored with Xiaoheng Zhang).
• 1997f. “Shi, De and Nominalization”. Studies of Chinese Language (Zhongguo Yuwen Tongxun) 43.13-18.
• 1998a. “Corpus CDBMS and CSQL”. Contemporary Linguistics (Linguistics Abroad) 1.29-36 (Co-Authored with Xiaoheng Zhang).
• 1998b. “The Nature of Chinese Topics”. Modern Foreign Languages ’98.2.40-57.
• 1998c. “Standard Chinese and Language Teaching in Hong Kong”. Language Teaching and Studies 54-65.
• 1998d. “The Complex Nature of V-C Constructions”. In Gu, Yang ed. Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 23-52. Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
• 1999a. “Studies on Chinese Topic-Comment Constructions”. In Xu, Liejiong ed. \ Similarities and Differences: Debates in Chinese Linguistics, 1-39. The Press of Beijing Culture and Language University, Beijing.
• 1999b. “Studies on Interrogative Sentences”. In Xu, Liejiong ed. Similarities and Differences: Debates in Chinese Linguistics, 40-75. The Press of Beijing Culture and Language University, Beijing.
• 1999c. “Studies on Ba and Bei Constructions”. In Xu, Liejiong ed. Similarities and Differences: Debates in Chinese Linguistics, 111-138.9. The Press of Beijing Culture and Language University, Beijing.
• 1999d. “Topic and Subject in Classical Chinese”. In Michael Fuller ed. An Introduction to Literary Chinese, 257-272. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
• 1999e. “The English Influence on Written Chinese in Hong Kong”. Journal of Foreign Languages ’99.4.2-11. (co-authored with Chu Chi Yu).
• 1999f. “The Smallest Unit in Processing Chinese”. In Changning Huang and Zhendong Dong eds. An Anthology of Chinese Computational Linguistics, 256-260. Tsinghua University Press, Beijing.
• 2000a. “The Flexibility of Chinese and the Theory of Syntax”. Contemporary Linguistics 1.18-26.
• 2000b. “English and Hong Kong Written Chinese”. Foreign Language Teaching and Research 32.3.200-206, co-authored with Chu Chi Yu.
• 2000c. “Topic and Topic-Comment Constructions in Mandarin Chinese”. Language 76.2.383-408.
• 2000d. “The Influence of Dialects and the Teaching of Putonghua”. Asia Pacific Journal of Language in Education 2.2. 125-134.
• 2000e. “Semantics, Syntax, Discourse and Pragmatics: the Case of Chinese De Constructions”. Research and Exploration in Grammar Vol. 10, 310-325, eds. Mei Fang and Bojiang Zhang. The Commercial Press, Beijing.
• 2001a. “Hong Kong Written Chinese and Language Teaching”. In Li, David, Angel Lin and Wai King Tsang eds. Language and Education in Postcolonial Hong Kong 197-213, The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
• 2001b. “Object-Taking Adjectives in Cantonese”. In Luke, Kang Kwong and Sin, Chow Yiu eds. Papers from the Seventh International Conference on Cantonese and Other Yue Dialects, 407-413, the Commercial Press, Beijing.
• 2001c. “Dialects and Putonghua Test”. In Lee Hok Ming ed. Theories and Practice of Language Test, the Commercial Press, Hong Kong.
• 2001d. “Syntactic Status of Reduplicated Adjectives”. Studies of Chinese 2.70-75.
• 2001e “Syntactic Characteristics of Hong Kong Written Chinese”. Chinese Language (Zhongguo Yuwen) 6.558-564. (Co-authored with Jinzhi Su and Chi-yu Chu).
• 2001f. “The Nature of Chinese Comparatives”. In Haihua Pan ed. Studies in Chinese Linguistics II, 138-158, The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
• 2002a. “The Syntactic Status of Compound and Phrase in Modern Chinese”. Research and Exploration in Grammar Vol. 11, 35-51, eds. Mei Fang and Bojiang Zhang. The Commercial Press, Beijing.
• 2002b. “Reading Guide”, to The Morphology of Chinese by Jerome Packard”, f31-45, the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, Beijing.
• 2002c. “Hong Kong Written Chinese: Residues of Classic Chinese, Transfer of Cantonese and Others”, Applied Linguistics 3.23-32. (co-authored with Canlong Wang and Chi-yu Chu).
• 2002d. “The Structure and Meaning of Nominal Predicates in Chinese”, in Liejiong Xu and Jinming Shao eds. New Development in the Study of Chinese Grammar, 465-480, Hangzhou: the Zhejiang Education Press.
• 2003a. “Syntactic Shift in Hong Kong Written Chinese”, Foreign Language Teaching and Research 35.1.4-12 (co-authored with Chu Chi-yu and Canlong Wang).
• 2003b. “Notes from the Editor”, Foreign Language Teaching and Research 35.1.4.
• 2003c. “The Latest Development of Chomsky’s Theory of Syntax”, Contemporary Linguistics 5.1.33-40.
• 2003d. “Theoretic Grammar and the Teaching of Chinese Language: the syntactic status of shi and others”, Chinese Teaching in the World 2.5-12.
• 2003e. “The Nature of Chinese Nominal Predicates”, in Jie Xu, Donghong Ji and Kim-Teng Lua eds., Chinese Syntax and Semantics 79-100, Singapore and London: Prentice Hall.
• 2003f. “The Syntactic Status of Pre-Verbal Chinese Patient NPs”, Studies of Chinese Language 2.15-23.
• 2003g. “Chinese Modifier-Modifiee V-O Compounds”, Chinese Language (Zhongguo Yuwen) 6.483-495.
• 2004a. “Nominalization of Verbs and Verb Phrases”, in Research and Exploration in Grammar Vol. 12, 255-273, eds. Mei Fang and Bojiang Zhang. The Commercial Press, Beijing.
• 2004b. “Nominalization, Materialization and the DE Construction”, in Huang, James ed. Anthology of Chinese Linguistics, pp 78-92, The Press of the Beijing Language University, Beijing.
• 2005a.”On Bei Passives in Chinese”, Chinese Linguistics 1.38-48。
• 2005b. “The Scope of Interaction between Pragmatics, Semantics and Syntax”. In Shao, Jingmin and Kang-kwong Luke eds. New Development in the Study of Chinese Grammar II, pp465-480, Hangzhou: the Zhejiang Education Press.
• 2005c. “The Origin and Resolution of Ambiguity in Chinese V-N Constructions”. Language Teaching and Studies 3.1-8.
• 2005d. “The Characteristics Aspect Marker in Hong Kong Written Chinese”. In the Shenzhen-HK-Macau Institute of Language Studies ed., Bilingualism and Bidialectalism, pp285-293. The Hanxue Press, Shenzhen, co-authored with Chu, Chi-yu.
• 2005e. “On Referential and Asserting Properties of Verbal Element”, Chinese Language Learning 4.3-10.
• 2005f. “Conditions on the Completeness of Sentences and the Licensing of Referential Features”, Linguistic Sciences 5.42-49.（co-authored with Jianhua Hu）
• 2005g. “English Influence on Hong Kong Written Chinese: the case of homographs”, Journal of Foreign Languages 6.2-9. （co-authored with Chu Chi-yu）
• 2005h. “The Interaction of Syntax with Semantics, Pragmatics and Phonology”. Xueliang Xiong and Gang Cai eds. Language Interface pp.4-18. Fudan University Press, Shanghai.
• 2005i. “The Binding Principle B”. Xueliang Xiong and Gang Cai eds. Language Interface pp.39-47. Fudan University Press, Shanghai. (Co-authored with Jianhua Hu)
• 2005j. “The Syntactic Status of Bei”. Contemporary Linguistics 7.3.213-224. (Co- authored with Jianhua Hu)
• 2005k. “Postposted Adverbial and the Syntactic Properties of Cantonese Adverbs”. Tang Kingban and Chuilan Tong eds. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Cantonese and Other Yue Dialects, pp320-325, The Macau Society of Chinese Language, Macau.
• 2006a. “Binding Principle B and the intra-sentential reference of pronouns”. Chinese Language (Zhongguo Yuwen) 1.3-9. (Co-authored with Jianhua Hu)
• 2006b. “On the Grammatical Features of Written Chinese in Hong Kong”. Chinese Language (Zhongguo Yuwen) 2.128-126. (Co-authored with Dongmei Wang)
• 2006c. “On the Syntactic Status of the Post-verbal Numeral Phrases”. Chinese Linguistics 1.51-58。
• 2006d. “On the Ambiguity of Markedness”. Contemporary Linguistics 1.86-88.
• 2006e. “Hong Kong Written Chinese: Language change induced by language contact”. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 16.2.299-318.
• 2006f. “The Syntax and Semantics of Le2”, in Research and Exploration in Grammar Vol. 13, 94-112, ed. Chinese Language (Zhongguo Yuwen). The Commercial Press, Beijing. (co-authored with Jianhua Hu)
• 2006g. “The Interaction between Quantifier Adverbs and Le and Guo”, in Research and Exploration in Grammar Vol. 13, 185-195, ed. Chinese Language (Zhongguo Yuwen). The Commercial Press, Beijing. (co-authored with Jianhua Hu）
• 2006h. “Homographs in Hong Kong Written Chinese and Standard Chinese: the influence of Hong Kong culture and the Cantonese dialect”, 201-208, ed. Zhangtai Chen, Hongliang Dai, Longsheng Guo, Yuming Li, Junying Xie and Xishuang Yao, Theory and Practice of Language Planning, The Chinese Language Press, Beijing. (Co-authored with Chiyu Chu)
• 2006i. “Hong Kong Written Chinese and Language Variation”, Journal of East China NormalUniversity: Philosophy and Social Science Edition 2.84-90. (Co-authored with Jingmin Shao)
• 2006j. “Variations in Hong Kong Written Chinese and their Origin”, in Dah-an Ho, H. Samuel Cheung, Wuyun Pan and Fuxiang Wu eds., Linguistic Studies in Chinese and Neighboring Languages: Festschrift in Honor of Professor Pang- hsin Ting on his 70th Birthday, pp625-644, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica. (Co-authored with Jingmin Shao)
• 2007a. “Theoretic Foundation of Generative-Transformation Grammar”. Journal of Foreign Languages 4.6-13.
• 2007b. “Endocentric Construction and Exocentric Construction”. Foreign Language Teaching and Research 39.4.276-284.
• 2007c. “The Interaction between Sentence-final Particles and Temporal Adverbials”. In Shao, Jingmin and Xianliang Zhang eds. New Development in the Study of Chinese Grammar III, pp146-155, Haerbin: the Northeast China Normal University Press. (Co-authored with Jianhua Hu).
• 2007d. “The Criteria, Method and Result of the Classification of Nouns and Verbs”. Chinese Language Learning. 4.3-12.
• 2007e. “The Semantics and syntax of the interrogative particle va in Shanghai dialect”. Chinese Language (Zhongguo Yuwen) 5.431-439.
• 2007f. “The Syntactic Status of Cantonese Sentence-final Particle Sin and Tsyu”. Samuel Cheung, Songhing Cheung and Hungkan Chan eds. Selected Papers of the the 10th International Conference on Cantonese and Other Yue Dialects,347-358. Beijing: The Press of Chinese Social Sciences.
• 2008a. “The Semantics of Dou and the Information Structure of Sentences with Dou”, in Research and Exploration in Grammar Vol. 13, 185-195, ed. Chinese Language (Zhongguo Yuwen). The Commercial Press, Beijing. (co-authored with Zanhui Huang）
• 2008b. “The Debate on Long vs. Short Bei Constructions”, Journal of the Qinghai Nationalities Institute 34.3.111-117。
• 2008c. “De and De Constructions”, Contemporary Linguistics 10.4.298-307。

Books

• 1999. Similarities and Differences: Controversies in Chinese Linguistics. Co-edited with Liejiong Xu, Jenny Wang and Yang Gu, the Press of The Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing.
• 2001. A Bibliography of Contemporary Chinese linguistics. Co-edited with Liejiong Xu, Jenny Wang and Yang Gu, the Press of Foreign Language Teaching and Research, Beijing.
• 2002. Chomsky’s Formal Syntax – Evolution and the State of the Art. The Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing.
• 2004. Peking Mandarin. ISBN: 3895868256. Lincom Europa, Muenchen, Germany.
• 2006a．The Two Faces of Hong Kong Written Chinese. ISBN-13:978-962-672-499-6. Singtao Publishing Co. Ltd., Hong Kong.
• 2006b. Comparison between Hong Kong Written Chinese and Standard Chinese. ISBN-13:978-988-200-175-6, Hong Kong Educational Publishing Co., Hong Kong, co-authored with Jingmin Shao and Chiyu Chu.

Non-refereed Publications

• 1989b. "Definiteness Effect and the Hierarchy of NP Positions". ESCOL '89.240 251
• 1990b. "Is There Object to Subject Raising in Chinese?" BLS 16.305 314)
• 1990c. "Theta Grid, Case Assignment and The Phrase Structure Condition Of Chinese". WECOL 20.211 221
• 1992b. "The Specificity Requirement and the Structure of Predication". WECOL 22 201 211.
• 1993c. "Discourse Topic Continuity and Syntactic Reduction". BLS 19. 313 322
• 1994c. "The Structure and Properties of Potential Resultative Compounds". NACCL 6.159-170.
• 1995b. "Chinese as a Null Subject Language". ICCL4/NACCL7. 271-288
• 1996c. "On Verb Reduplication". NACCL 8. 277-294.
• 1998e. "Cantonese, Standard Chinese and Writing". In Lee, HoK-ming ed. Studies on Writing-Teaching in Colleges 358-364. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• 1998f. "The Nature of Chinese Comparative Constructions". NACCL 10 221-238.
• 1999g. "Linguistic Theories and Language Teaching". In Lee, Hok-ming ed. Teaching in Chinese and Bilingual Studies, CBS, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 100-109.
• 2001g. "On Contrastive Analysis". Philology Newsletter pp.67-70.

Conference Presentations

• 1989a. "The Largest Syntactic Unit in Chinese". Paper presented at the Annual Conference on Linguistics of the International Linguistic Association, New York.
• 1989b. "Definiteness Effect and the Hierarchy Of NP Positions". Paper presented at the 6th Eastern States Conference on Linguistics, Newark, Delaware.
• 1989c. "A Unique Way of Pidgin Transmission and its Possible Influence on Chinese Pidgin English”. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. Washington, D.C.
• 1990a. "Is There Object to Subject Raising in Chinese?" Paper presented at the Berkeley Linguistic Society Conference, Berkeley.
• 1990b. "Theta Grid, Case Assignment and the Phrase Structure Condition of Chinese". Paper presented at the Western Conference on Linguistics, El Paso.
• 1990c. "Matrix VP or Adverbial?" Paper presented at the Second Northeast Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Philadelphia.
• 1991a. "Pidian, Pigeon and Business". Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Chicago.
• 1991b. "oTpic or Adverbial”. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago.
• 1991c. "With or Without DE". Paper presented at the annual meeting of Chinese Language Teachers Association, Washington, D.C.
• 1992a. "How Much Phonology Is Available?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Philadelphia.
• 1992b. "On Chinese Clefts". Paper presented at the Workshop on East Asian Linguistics, University of California, Irvine.
• 1992c. "On the Feeding Relation Between Syntax and Morphology: Evidence from Chinese Nominal V N Compounds". Paper presented at the Third International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
• 1992d. "The Specificity Requirement and the Structure of Predication". Paper presented at 22nd West Coast Conference on Linguistics, Tucson.
• 1993a. "Discourse Topic Continuity and Syntactic Reduction". Paper presented at the Berkeley Linguistics Society conference, Berkeley.
• 1993b. "The Structural Representation of Resultative Construction and the Definiteness Effect" Paper presented at the 5th North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Newark, Delaware.
• 1993c. "Teaching Chinese Language, Teaching Chinese Culture". Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, San Antonio.
• 1994a. "The Structure and Properties of Potential Resultative Compounds". Paper presented at the 6th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Los Angeles.
• 1994b. "Complex Predicates in Chinese Are Very Complex". Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
• 1995a. "Chinese as a Null Subject Language". Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Madison.
• 1995b. "NP Predicates in Chinese". Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong.
• 1996a. "On Verb Reduplication". Paper presented at the 8th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
• 1996b. "On Nominal Predicates". Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Hsin-chu, Taiwan.
• 1996c. "The Definiteness Requirement on Chinese Subjects". Paper presented at the Symposium on Referentiality of Chinese Noun Phrases, Hong Kong.
• 1996d. "On NP+Q Questions". Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong.
• 1997a. "The Interrogative Form of NP+Q". Paper presented at the Sixth International Conference of Chinese Linguistics, Leiden, The Netherlands.
• 1997b. "The Referentiality of Headless Complex NPs". Paper presented at the Workshop on Referentiality of NPs, LSA Summer Institute of Linguistics, Ithaca, NY.
• 1997c. "The Extractability of Adjuncts in Relativization". Paper presented the Workshop on Referentiality of NPs, LSA Summer Institute of Linguistics, Ithaca, NY, co-author with C. Yu and Y. Jiang
• 1997d. "To Mark Topic and Subject in Chinese Sentences". Paper presented at the Joint Conference of the Society of Computational Linguistics '97, Beijing, co-authored with X. Chen.
• 1997e. "Chinese Inter-Dialect Machine Translation", Paper presented at the Joint Society of Computational Linguistics '97, Beijing, co-authored with X. Zhang.
• 1997f. "The Chinese Comparative Constructions". Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong.
• 1997g. "The Unmarked Relative Clauses in Cantonese". Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong.
• 1997h. "The Yue Dialect and Modern Standard Chinese." Paper presented at the Conference on Teaching Writing in Universities, Hong Kong.
• 1998a. "The Nature of Comparative Constructions in Chinese". Paper presented at the Tenth North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Stanford.
• 1998b. "The Internal Structure of Chinese Resultative Constructions". Paper presented at the 9th International Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Moscow
• 1998c. "Syntax, Semantic, Discourse and Pragmatics, the Case of Chinese Complex NP". Paper presented at the 98 International Conference on Chinese Grammar, Beijing.
• 1998d. "The Flexibility of Chinese and Chinese Syntax Theory". Paper presented at the Seventh Linguistics Abroad Conference, Luoyang, Henan
• 1998e. "Verbal Modification of Nominals". Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of Linguistic Society of Hong Kong
• 1999a. "Phrase or Word: the Case of Nominal Modifiers". Paper presented at the Eighth International Association of Chinese Linguistics Conference, Melbourne.
• 1999b. "Object-Taking Adjectives in Cantonese". Paper presented at the 7th International Conference on Cantonese and Other Yue Dialects, Hong Kong.
• 1999c. "The Basic Unit in Machine Recognition of Chinese". Paper presented at the at the Joint Conference of the Society of Computational Linguistics '99, Beijing.
• 1999d. "The Issue of Impersonal Passive". Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, co-authored with Tang, Sze-wing
• 1999e. "Semantic Shift in Hong Kong Written Chinese". Paper presented at the International Language in Education Conference, Hong Kong, co-authored with Chu, Chi Yu.
• 1999f. "The Influence of English-Chinese Translation on Hong Kong Written Chinese: the case of ‘chance’”. Paper presented at the International Language in Education Conference, Hong Kong, co-authored with Chu, Chi Yu.
• 1999g. "Syntactic Variations in Hong Kong Written Chinese: the English influence". Paper presented at the International Conference on Chinese and Cultures, Shanghai, co-authored with Chu, Chi Yu.
• 2000a. "Dialectal Factors in Putonghua Test". Paper presented at the International Conference on Language Testing and Language Teaching, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.
• 2000b. "The Nature of Background Topic". Paper presented at the International Symposium on Topic and Focus in Chinese, Hong Kong.
• 2000c. "The Markedness of Preverbal Patient NPs". Paper presented at the 9th International Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Singapore. (Co-authored with Tang, Sze-wing)
• 2000d. "The Syntactic Status of Compounds and Phrases". Paper presented at the 11th Conference on Contemporary Chinese Grammar, Wuhu
• 2000e. "Subject, Patient Subject and the Theory of Syntax". Paper presented at the 8th Conference on Linguistics Abroad, Guangzhou.
• 2000f. "Conditions on Reduction at Discourse Level". Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum, Linguistic Society of Hong Kong.
• 2001a. "The Interface of Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics: the case of Chinese nominal predicates". Paper presented at the First International Conference on Modern Chinese Grammar for the New Millennium, Hong Kong.
• 2001b. "The Syntactic Status of the Chinese Attributive Marker DE". Paper presented at the First International Conference on Formal Linguistics (China), Changsha.
• 2001c. "Cantonese Influences on Hong Kong Written Chinese". Paper presented at the International Language in Education Conference, Hong Kong, co-authored with Chu, Chi Yu.
• 2002a. "Nominalization of Verbs and Verb Phrases". Paper presented the 12th Conference on Contemporary Chinese Grammar, Changsha
• 2002b. "The Syntax of Word Formation". Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Formal Linguistics, Changsha.
• 2002c. "Syntactic Changes Induced by Language Contact: the Case of Hong Kong Written Chinese". Paper presented at the 11th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, Nagoya, Japan.
• 2002d. "Grammaticalization of Verbs – the Case of Come and Go". Paper presented at the 9th Conference on Contemporary Linguistics, Beijing.
• 2002e. "Constituent Order in Syntactic Islands". Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum, Linguistic Society of Hong Kong.
• 2002f. "The Basis for Dialogue among Linguists". Paper presented at the Yuelu Forum on Contemporary Linguistics, Changsha.
• 2003a. "The Interaction Domain of Pragmatics, Semantics and Syntax: the issue of patient NP in subordinate clauses”. Keynote speech at the Second International Conference on Contemporary Chinese Grammar, Guangzhou.
• 2003b. "Two Types of Passive Constructions in Chinese and the Status of Bei". Paper presented at the International Conference on Chinese Passives, Wuchang.
• 2003c. "The Syntax and Semantics of the Sentence Final le". Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, co-authored with Jianhua Hu, Hong Kong.
• 2003d. "Deriving Passives in Chinese". Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, co-authored with Jianhua Hu, Hong Kong.
• 2003e. "The Syntactic Properties of Degree Adverbs in Cantonese: the Case of Postponed Adverbial". Paper presented at the 9th International Conference on Cantonese and Other Yue Dialects, Macau.
• 2004a. "Interaction of Syntax, Pragmatics and Phonology: the case of Chinese V-N compounds”. Keynote speech at the Conference on Language Interface, Shanghai.
• 2004b. "Interface in Binding". Paper presented at the Conference on Language Interface, Shanghai , co-authored with Jiahua Hu.
• 2004c. "Factors in the Acceptability of V-N Compounds". Paper presented at the 12th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, Tianjin, China.
• 2004d. "Referential Features of Hong Kong Written Chinese". Paper presented at the 12th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, co-authored with Dongmei Wang, Tianjin, China.
• 2004e. "The Referring and Predication of Verbs". Keynote Speech presented at the 12th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of China, Yinchuan, China.
• 2004f. "Completion of Sentences and Licence of Referential Features". Paper presented at the 12th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of China, co-authored with Jianhua Hu, Yinchuan, China.
• 2004g. "Aspect Markers in Hong Kong Written Chinese". Paper presented at the 8th Conference on Bilingualism and Bidialectalism, co-authored the Chu Chi-yu, Shenzhen.
• 2004h. "Unusual Collocations in Hong Kong Written Chinese". Paper presented at the 8th Conference on Bilingualism and Bidialectalism, co-authored the Chu Chi-yu, Shenzhen.
• 2004i. "Homographs in Hong Kong Written Chinese and Standard Chinese". Paper presented at the 4th National Conference on Sociolinguistics, Beijing.
• 2004j. "The Syntactic and Semantic Status of Le2". Keynote Speech at the 13th Conference on Contemporary Chinese Grammar, co-authored with Jianhua Hu, Fuzhou.
• 2004k. "The Quantification of Le and Guo". Paper presented at the 13th Conference on Contemporary Chinese Grammar, co-authored with Jianhua Hu, Fuzhou.
• 2004l. "The Licensing of Chinese Clauses and Nominal Phrases" Paper presented the 10th Conference on Contemporary Linguistics, co-authored with Jianhua Hu, Chongqing.
• 2004m. "The Compression of Chinese Complex Words". Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
• 2004n. "Presupposition and Assertion - The Semantics of - guo". Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, co-authored with Jianhua Hu, Hong Kong.
• 2005a. "Sentence-Final Particle Le and Temporal Adverbs". Paper presented at the Third International Conference on Chinese Grammar, co-authored with Jianhua Hu, Jinhua.
• 2005b. "Resultative Construction and the Scope of the Aspect Marker Guo". Paper presented at the Third International Conference on Chinese Grammar, co-authored with Jianhua Hu, Jinhua.
• 2005c. “Presupposition and Assertion in the Use of -Guo”. Paper presented at the 17th North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics, co-authored with Jianhu Hu, Monterey, USA.
• 2005d. "The Syntactic and Semantic Status of Postverbal Numeral phrases". Paper presented at the International Conference on Verb and Object. Wuchang.
• 2005e. "A Unique Noun-Verb Construction". Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
• 2005f. "The Syntactic Status of Sentence-final Particles in Cantonese". Paper presented at the 9th International Conference on Cantonese and Other Yue Dialects, Hong Kong.
• 2005g. "Hong Kong Written Chinese and Language Variation". Paper presented at the 9th International Conference on Cantonese and Other Yue Dialects, Hong Kong. (Co-authored with Shao Jingmin)
• 2006a. "Nominal Predicates and Word Classes". Paper presented at the Nanyue Forum on Chinese Grammar, Shaoguan, China.
• 2006b. "Long Passives and Short Passives in Chinese". Paper presented at the International Conference on Formal and Functional Approaches to Chinese Grammar, Zhengzhou, China.
• 2006c. "The Current Status and Prospectus of Hong Kong Written Chinese". Paper presented at the International Conference on the Language Policy in Chinese, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, Hong Kong.
• 2006d. "The Adverbs Dou and Ye in Hong Kong Written Chinese". Paper presented at the 9th International Conference on Bilingualism and Bidialectalism, Shenzhen, co-authored with Dongmei Wang.
• 2006e. "The Chinese Language Teaching Courseware: Practice and Theoretic Implications". Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on New Technology in Teaching and Learning Chinese, Hong Kong, co-authored with Xiaoheng Zhang and Yuqi Sheng.
• 2006f. "The Criteria, Method and Consequence of the Distinction between Noun and Verb". Paper presented the 11th Conference on Contemporary Linguistics, Tianjin.
• 2006g. "De and the De Construction". Keynote Speech at the 14th Conference on Contemporary Chinese Grammar, Shanghai.
• 2006h. "The Logic Function of Dou and Its Information and Syntactic Structure". Paper presented at the 14th Conference on Contemporary Chinese Grammar, co-authored with Zanhui Huang, Shanghai.
• 2006i. "The Syntax and Semantics of Sentence-Final Particle VA in Shanghai Dialect". Keynote speech at the 3rd International Conference on the Grammar of Chinese Dialects, Guangzhou.
• 2006j. "The De Construction and the Endocentric Construction". Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong.
• 2007a. "Variations of Written Chinese and Its Implications in CSL". Plenary paper presented at the Professional Workshop on Linguistics and Teaching Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language, Hong Kong.
• 2007b. "The Syntax and Semantics of Sentence-final Particles--the case of Shanghai Dialect Va". Paper presented at the 15th International Association of Chinese Linguistics Conference, New York.
• 2007c. "Constraints on the Occurrence of Dou". Paper presented at the 15th International Association of Chinese Linguistics Conference, New York (co-authored with Zanhui Huang).
• 2007d. "Endocentric Construction and Related Concepts". Keynote speech at the fourth International Conference on Chinese Grammar, Xining.
• 2007e. "Nominal Predicate and the Classification of Words". Paper presented at the Symposium on Chinese Syntax and Semantics, Hong Kong.
• 2007f. “The logic-semantic function of Dou and the information structure of Dou construction”. Paper presented at the Symposium on Chinese Syntax and Semantics, Hong Kong (co-authored with Zanhui Huang).
• 2007g. “Syntactic Ambiguity of Pragmatic Ambiguity”. Paper presented at the Roundtable Conference on Contemporary Linguistics, Qingdao.
• 2007h. “Indefinite Pronoun and Headless Relatives”. Keynote speech at the International Conference on Comparative Grammar, Wuchang.
• 2007i. “The Ambiguity of ‘Write Slogans on a Train’”. Paper presented at the 3rd Cross the Strait Conference on Chinese Grammar, Hong Kong.
• 2007j. “The Interaction between Syntax, Phonology and Pragmatics: the case of ambiguity in negative compound sentences”. Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
• 2007k. “The Syntax and Semantics of Saai”. Paper presented at the 12th International Conference on Cantonese and Other Yue Dialects, Zhongshan.
• 2008a. “A Comparison of Homographs in Standard Chinese and Hong Kong Written Chinese”. Paper presented at the 6th International Conference of the Association of Chinese Sociolinguistics, Hong Kong. (co-authored with Yi Liu)
• 2008b. “Independent DE Construction and its Implications in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language”. Keynote speech at the 3rd National Conference on Functional Words and Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, Huzhou.
• 2008c. “Chinese Headless Relative Clauses Do Have Head”, paper presented at the 16th Polylinguistics Salon, Hong Kong.
• 2008d. “Sentence-final Particles and the Structure of CP”, paper presented at the 16th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, Beijing.
• 2008e. “Quantified Event and Mei”, paper presented at the 16th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, Beijing. (co-authored with Zanhui Huang)
• 2008f. “Classification of Adjectival Modifiers”, paper presented at the Nanjing University Sociolinguistics Lab Conference, Nanjing.
• 2008g. “The Wide-scope Reading of the Head in a Relative Clause with Dou and Related Issues”. Paper presented at the 15th Conference on Contemporary Chinese Grammar, co-authored with Zanhui Huang, Yanji.
• 2008h. “The Syntax of Verbal Objects”. Keynote Speech at the 14th Conference on Contemporary Chinese Grammar, Yanji.
• 2008i. “Restrictive and Descriptive Attributives in Chinese”. Paper presented the 12th Conference on Contemporary Linguistics, Wuchang.
• 2008j. “Language Change Induced by Translation - How Legal Translation Influenced Hong Kong Written Chinese”. Paper presented at the 2nd HCLS Conference, Translation, Language Contact and Multilingual Communication, Hong Kong.
• 2008k. “The Syntax and Semantics of Chinese Attributives”. Paper presented at the 2nd Nanyue Forum on Chinese Grammar, Zhaoqing, China.
• 2008l.“Sentence-final kuai in Shanghai Dialect”. Keynote paper of the 3rd International Conference on the Grammar of Chinese Dialects, Quanzhou.
• 2008m. “Mood in Chinese”. Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
• 2008n. “With or Without Gei”. Paper presented at the 13th International Conference on Cantonese and Other Yue Dialects, Hong Kong.

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