Academic Qualifications

2023, Harvard University

Management Development Programme, Harvard Graduate School of Education, June 4 - 9 2023

• The five-day programme "helps higher education managers acquire the knowledge and insight needed to think more strategically, balance competing demands, and engage in more forward-thinking leadership" [LINK]

2009, PhD, University of Washington

Dissertation title: The Verb GIVE and the Double-object Construction in Cantonese in Synchronic, Diachronic and Typological Perspectives [pdf file] [The dissertation was published as a monograph under the series of Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse by John Benjamins  in June 2022 [LINK]] 

Supervisors: Anne Yue-Hashimoto (Chair), Jerry Norman, Chris Hamm

2000, MPhil, City University of Hong Kong

Thesis title: A Comparative Analysis of Chinese News Headline Language of Hong Kong and Taiwan 港台兩地中文新聞標題語言比較分析 [pdf file]

Panel: Benjamin Tsou (Chair), Chin-chuan Cheng, Gisela Bruche-Schulz  

[The MPhil thesis was published in 2006 in the monograph series of Computational and Linguistics Analysis of Asian Languages by the Language Information Sciences Research Centre of the City University of Hong Kong]

1997, BA (Hons) Language Information Science, City University of Hong Kong (First class honor)

Professional membership

- Life member, International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL)

- Life member, Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK)