About me
About me
I am a linguist with a PhD conferred by the University of Manchester. My doctoral research was jointly supervised by Prof. Kersti Börjars and Prof. Eva Schultze-Berndt.
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford (Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics) as well as an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester (Linguistics and English Language Department).
My academic journey includes earning master's and bachelor's degrees from the University of Hong Kong. In addition to my research pursuits, I am a qualified English (ESL/TESOL) teaching professional in Hong Kong and have been recognised as a Fellow of Advance HE in the UK.
Since 2023, I have been contributing to the Parallel Grammar (ParGram) Consortium, which is an international collaboration to develop cross-linguistic computational grammars that have both industrial strength and a solid basis on linguistic theory. Together with Prof. Mary Dalrymple (University of Oxford) and Dr Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha (Trinity College Dublin), we have been co-organising monthly meetings for the global ParGram community. Our meetings focus on comparing the similarities and differences of syntactic structures generated by cross-linguistic computational grammars with the aim of further developing and fine-tuning these grammars.
Chit-Fung Lam (Lawrence)
PhD Linguistics
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Honorary Research Fellow, University of Manchester
Fellow of Advance HE
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